Most tourists fly to Tonga, landing at Fua’amota International Airport, which is about 15 kilometres (nine miles) south-east of Nuku’alofa. There are direct flights from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and America (Hawaii). Basically if you are not from any of those countries you will need to get to one of them to fly to Tonga. Auckland (NZ) and Nadi (Fiji) have the most flights weekly.

Air New Zealand has daily flights from Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney with 5 connecting flights to Tonga weekly. Air New Zealand also has international flights from Europe and America which will connect to Tonga.

Air Pacific, Fiji’s national carrier, flies the Suva and Nadi – Nuku’alofa route 3 times a week. They have connecting flights to Australia, America and Japan.

Pacific Blue, the international airline of the Australian- based Virgin Blue, has flights from Sydney and Auckland twice weekly. Flight time from Australia is just over 4 hours.

Vava’u is also a popular destination with international yachties because of its protected harbour.