Melbourne Airport
Melbourne
- IATAMEL
- ICAOYMML
- Serves
- Melbourne
- Operator
- Australia Pacific Airports Corporation (APAC)
- Owner
- Not recorded
- Opened
- 1 July 1970
- Elevation
- 434 ft (132 m)
- Runways
- 3 (longest 3,657 m)
- Airlines based here
- Qantas, Virgin Australia
- Website
- www.melbourneairport.com.au
About the airport
Melbourne Airport (IATA: MEL, ICAO: YMML), colloquially known as Tullamarine Airport, is an international airport serving Melbourne, Victoria, the second largest city in Australia. It is located in the suburb of Melbourne Airport, approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) northwest of the Melbourne city centre. The airport served over 36 million passengers in 2025, making it the second busiest airport in Australia by passenger movements after Sydney Airport. It opened in 1970 in the suburb of Tullamarine, replacing Essendon Airport for all international flights. It is also the main international gateway to the state of Victoria. The airport has a consolidated four-terminal layout with one international terminal, two standard domestic terminals and a terminal for low-cost domestic airlines, covering 1,070 hectares (2,600 acres) of airport property. It was specifically built to operate without a curfew and is Australia's busiest 24-hour airport. It serves as a major hub for Qantas, Virgin Australia and Jetstar, and is also the headquarters of cargo airline Team Global Express.
This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.