Christchurch International Airport is New Zealand's tourism gateway. Situated on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, Christchurch is conveniently located next to many iconic tourism highlights and as such receives over 5.9 million passengers a year.
Airports are a necessary evil and some of them feel more evil than others. Your misery can start when you try to find information on unfriendly websites, and intensify when you have to drive through industrial blight and traffic jams to arrive for your flight. Negotiating access roads and parking garages, marching a mile with your luggage, horrendous check-in queues, confusing signs, all not much fun. And then you've got the departure lounge with too few seats, expensive food, and the constant aural … more