Lismore Airport

A delightful regional airport set amongst the lush valleys and hills of the Northern Rivers District of New South Wales. Nice well designed terminal and with more convenient flight schedules with Regional Express down to Sydney than nearby Ballina - which handles mainly tourist traffic. Lismore Airport is close to town and has all the usual car rental facilities - and is only 30 minutes to the coast Byron Bay/Ballina etc. Only downside is as is usual at most airport terminals in Australia blaring televisions all around the terminal causing a racket and breaking the pleasant peace of this delightful place.

Small & quiet regional airport with small turboprop aircraft from a single airline. There is no separate security screening & staff have always been exceptionally helpfull. Late arrivals for departures are handled efficiently. The cafe is an offshoot of a nice respected cafe in the city serving exceptional coffee. There is little point trying to fly from the bigger airports of Ballina or the Gold Coast. The planes might be bigger there but flight times to Sydney are the virtually the same & you are less comfortable waiting in those bigger airports. Mother nature is the only downside with early morning fog causing some concerns but has never really affected me when I have wanted to travel.