Moorabbin Airport joy flights: Scenic flights in Melbourne
Moorabbin Airport in Melbourne’s south-western suburbs offers scheduled flights to King Island, plus helicopter tours over Melbourne, Port Phillip Bay and the Mornington Peninsula.
After Sydney Airport, which Australian airport would you guess is the second busiest? Well, you’re almost certainly wrong. Well, if you’re measuring on aircraft movements rather than passenger numbers, anyway.
Moorabbin Airport runway length
Moorabbin Airport, just south of Heatherton in Melbourne’s sprawling south-eastern suburbs, has five intersecting runways. But none of them are particularly long. The longest runway length at Moorabbin Airport is 1,335 metres. This, and the built-up urban environment around the airport, means jet planes land at Tullamarine Airport in the north of Melbourne. Moorabbin Airport is used almost exclusively by light aircraft.
It’s a major centre for pilot training, and plenty of private plane flights leave from Mooorabin. Only one scheduled flight route operates from Moorabbin Airport. That’s the King Island Airlines service to King Island in Tasmania.
14 fantastic experiences that make the most of your free time in Melbourne
- Get the very best views – on a hot air balloon flight over the city.
- See the changing colours of the river – on a sunset kayaking tour – with dinner. (Highly recommended ✅)
- Feast and see the sights at the same time – on a four course dinner cruise along the Yarra River.
- A genuinely excellent street art tour, led by prominent street artists. (Highly recommended ✅)
- The also superb Aboriginal heritage, plants and bush food tour in the Botanic Gardens. (💲 Great value 💲)
- Best of Melbourne bike tour – you can see more on two wheels than walking.
- Hidden laneways bar crawl OR foodie discovery tour OR chocolate and dessert tour.
- Combo ticket for Australian Sports Museum and MCG tour.
- Hassle-dodging advance tickets for the Melbourne Skydeck, Melbourne Zoo, the Ice Bar (with cocktails) and Sea Life Aquarium.
Melbourne helicopter tours from Moorabbin Airport
Chances are, if you’re coming to Moorabbin Airport for a flight, it’ll be on a helicopter. Three helicopter tour services operate from this airport in south-east Melbourne.
The Helicopter Group runs scenic flights over Melbourne, Port Phillip Bay and the Mornington Peninsula. The most popular flight is the Melbourne Bay Line trip, which lasts 20 minutes and costs $249. You can also book a private wine-tasting tour in the Yarra Valley, with transport to the wine region by helicopter, for from $525.
👇 7 great day trips while you’re in Melbourne 👇
- Great Ocean Road tour – with koalas 🐨.
- Brighton Beach, Moonlit Sanctuary and Phillip Island tour – with penguins 🐧.
- Yarra Valley wine tour – with gin, cider and cheese 🍷.
- Grampians National Park tour – with bushwalks and LOADS of kangaroos 🦘.
- Mornington Peninsula tour – with hot springs bathing 🛀.
- Wilsons Promontory tour – with all manner of native wildlife 🦘🐨.
- Dandenong Ranges steam train ride – plus wildlife at Healesville Sanctuary and chocolate-tasting in the Yarra Valley.
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Moorabbin Airport joy flights to Gippsland
Microflite, meanwhile, offers charter flights to the ski fields in Gippsland and the High Country, as well as trips to Phillip Island, the Healesville Sanctuary in Healesville and Peninsula Hot Springs on the Mornington Peninsula.
Professional Helicopter Services operates better known Uluru scenic flights and Kings Canyon helicopter tours in the Northern Territory. But it also operates choppers out of Moorabbin. Options include ski fields transfers, Melbourne scenic flights, and luxury winery or golf course trips.
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