Live Departures from Adelaide Airport (ADL), Adelaide

Adelaide Airport (ADL) is South Australia's main airport, about 6 km west of the city centre and one of the country's busier capital-city gateways. It serves greater Adelaide and the wider state, and is the usual starting point for trips to the Barossa Valley wine country, Kangaroo Island, and the South Australian outback.

Everything runs through a single combined terminal, opened in 2005, which handles domestic and international flights side by side rather than splitting them across separate buildings. It is a full-service capital-city airport across two levels, with the usual shops, cafes, and check-in halls, sitting a notch below the Sydney and Melbourne tier in scale.

The domestic trunk is the core of the network. Qantas, Virgin Australia, and Jetstar run the high-frequency links to the eastern capitals and Perth, with Qantas and Jetstar also reaching leisure and regional points further afield. Regional Express (Rex) and QantasLink cover the turboprop and intrastate routes, so the board mixes narrowbody jets with smaller regional aircraft.

International flying is real but modest: a handful of direct routes rather than a long-haul hub. Carriers including Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways, Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, China Southern, and Air New Zealand connect Adelaide to Asian and trans-Tasman hubs, which is where most long-haul passengers pick up onward connections.

There is one terminal, so there is no inter-terminal transfer to plan. The catch worth knowing: Adelaide has no train or tram to the airport, despite both running elsewhere in the city. Public transport is bus-only. Adelaide Metro's JetBus services (J1, J2, J7, J8) and the JetExpress run between the terminal and the CBD and suburbs, picking up at a stop a short walk from the doors. Otherwise it is taxi, rideshare, or the on-site car parks, which range from short-stay close to the terminal to cheaper long-stay further out.

Check-in and security sit in the one hall and are generally quick by capital-city standards; allow the usual extra margin for international departures. There are lounges here too: the Qantas Club and Virgin Australia Lounge cover their respective frequent flyers, and a pay-per-use Plaza Premium lounge is open to anyone who wants to wait somewhere quieter.