Alice Springs Airport

Alice Springs Airport (IATA ASP, ICAO YBAS) is a regional airport 13 km south of Alice Springs. The airport is 545 metres / 1,789 feet above sea level, and it has two runways. 12 / 30 (which is the main runway) is 2,438 metres / 8,000 feet long and can accommodate a Boeing 747 or 777. The smaller 17 / 35 runway is 1,133 metres / 3,717 feet long. The only scheduled flights using the airport at the moment is Qantas and Qantas Link. Tiger Air were servicing the airport from Melbourne and Sydney but pulled out around April last year.

Virgin Australia will start flying into Alice from this March doing a Darwin / Alice / Adelaide (and vice versa) run three times a week using a Boeing 737. 

Alice Springs has a history no other airport can boast about, on 15th November 1972 it was notably involved in Australia's first domestic airline hijacking, and later in January 1977 a suicide attack by a former airline employee claimed the lives of four people on the ground and seriously injured four more.

Below are some images I managed to get in the short time I was there.
This afternoon I boarded another flight this time from Alice to Darwin.

The flight, Qantas 1938, was due to depart at 5.15 Alice time. The aircraft for this leg was a Boeing 717-200 VH-NXO and I was seated in 16A.... The emergency exit row.

We got away 10 mins late and we got our "runway 12....clear for take off " at 5.25, like most flights this one was very smooth and comfortable. We landed runway 29 at Darwin at exactly 10 past 7 Darwin time and taxied to bay 4.

QANTAS VH-XZA B737-838 (CN 39367)

QANTAS VH-VZZ (CN 39445)

ALLIANCE F28-1000 (CN 11357)

ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR PILATUS PC 12

QANTAS LINK B717-200 VH-NXR (CN 55168)

ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR VH-FVE PILATUS PC 12

QANTAS LINK B717-200 VH-NXN (CN 55095)