Arrivals: International flights landing in a New Zealand port.
Departures: International flights leaving a New Zealand port.
Data calculation/treatment
Flights are only counted if at least one individual on the flight is recorded as an arrival or a departure.
Although most flights are scheduled commercial services, the numbers may also include charter services, private aircraft, cargo aircraft and other special flights.
Flights may visit more than one overseas port, and will be counted under each. Hence, the sum across overseas ports may differ from the total number of flights.
From March 2020 to July 2022, the New Zealand government implemented measures to protect New Zealanders from the COVID-19 virus, effectively limiting travel to and from New Zealand
Note: the 2023 data for countries with small samples is subject to high level of misclassification error and should be disregarded.
Inclusions
Please note that flights which stop elsewhere on route to/from New Zealand are considered as 'direct flights' when the flight number and aircraft do not change during the layover (e.g. from/to Dubai via Australia, London, etc).
At URL provided, select 'Tourism -> International Travel and Migration - ITM -> Number of flights by direction and overseas port (Monthly)'. All variables were selected to produce this dataset.
From the dataset International Travel: Number of flights by direction and overseas port (Monthly) December 2024, this data was extracted:
Rows: 4-331
Columns: 2-223
Provided: 36,408 data points
Dataset originally released on:
February 17, 2025
About this dataset
International Travel covers the number and characteristics of overseas visitors and New Zealand resident travellers (short-term movements) entering New Zealand.
Method of collection/Data provider
Data is obtained from electronic passport and flight records by the New Zealand Customs Service.