Live Departures from Sunshine Coast Airport (MCY), Sunshine Coast

Sunshine Coast Airport sits at Maroochydore on Queensland's coast, serving the holiday strip from Caloundra up through Mooloolaba to Noosa. It is a regional leisure airport rather than a capital-city hub: a single terminal handling domestic traffic plus a thin band of international flying, built around the tourists and second-home owners who fill the coast through summer.

The airport's reach changed with the 2,450-metre Runway 13/31, opened in June 2020, which can take larger narrowbodies and short-haul widebodies and made direct flights into Asia and across the Tasman possible. For most travellers, though, the day-to-day character is still domestic: a busy run to the southern capitals and a handful of leisure routes, with traffic that swells over school holidays and the winter escape season.

Qantas, Virgin Australia and Jetstar carry the domestic load, with the heaviest frequency on the trunk routes to the southern capitals. Between them they run the bulk of the schedule on single-aisle jets, so most departures here are a 737 or A320-family aircraft rather than turboprops or regional types.

Jetstar adds the leisure layer that defines the coast's network: seasonal and year-round domestic runs plus direct flights to Bali that carry on to Singapore, and Air New Zealand operates the trans-Tasman link to Auckland. The shape of it is a domestic-trunk core with a leisure fringe, weighted toward the southern capitals and tilting more international in the peak holiday months.

There is one terminal, and it is compact. Three car parks sit close to the building, covering short-term opposite the terminal, long-term a few minutes' walk away, and a covered long-stay option for longer trips. Parking uses licence-plate recognition tied to your online booking, and there is a kerbside zone directly outside for pick-up and drop-off. There is no rail link to the airport, so it is car, taxi, rideshare or a pre-booked transfer to get here. Taxis wait outside the terminal and car hire desks are inside.

Check-in and security are straightforward at this scale, and queues are short outside the holiday rush. The terminal is single-storey and easy to read, with the usual cafe and retail rather than an airline lounge. Plan for the drive and parking rather than the airport itself, then keep an eye on the board for your gate.