Scenic Flights | Milford Sound, Mt. Cook & Stewart Island

Glenorchy Air is a family-owned and operated scenic flight company based at Queenstown International Airport on the stunning South Island of New Zealand. Experience awe-inspiring, personalised flights to Milford Sound, Mt. Cook, Mt. Aspiring and beyond. With Glenorchy Air, your window seat awaits. All of our aircraft have expansive windows, allowing every passenger unobstructed views of the stunning locations we fly over.

Our pilots are knowledgeable, confident locals who strive to exceed your expectations. We have many flight options to suit your time, budget and level of adventure.

We offer the largest range of products of any flight company in Queenstown - we are the Adventure Capital of the World after all!

In Milford Sound, we offer a boat cruise through the sound and out to the Tasman Sea, an Explore option, where you can experience all Milford Sound has to offer at your own pace. With options to take in the two nature walks, enjoy lunch at the Milford Lodge or Milford Cafe, and get up-close-and-personal with the local wildlife. You can take a coach into the sound via the Milford Road. 

At Mt. Cook, you can fly in over the Fox & Franz Josef Glaciers before landing at Glentanner for the most scenic cup of coffee you'll ever have on the shores of Lake Pukaki, our Explore option allows you time to have lunch at The Hermitage Hotel, visit the Sir Edmund Hilary Centre or take on the Hooker Valley Track, you can take a MAC boat across the Tasman Terminal Lake with our partners Glacier Explorers for one of the most amazing experiences the region has to offer, you can go for a Heli Hike up on the incredible Tasman Glacier with our partners INFLITE, and there's always to option to add on a Helicopter or Ski Plane landing! In Winter, we offer the exclusive Ski the Tasman, where you have two runs at New Zealand's longest glacier!

Our Mt. Aspiring & The Glaciers flight is an awe-inspiring hour trip through Mt. Aspiring National Park over the dazzling Passchendaele Icefall, the white expanse of the Bonar Glacier and the perfect symmetry of Mt Aspiring, the Southern Alps' most beautiful mountain which rises majestically two miles high.

Our latest adventure takes you out to Stewart Island for the day, where you can experience a bespoke trip to New Zealand's third-largest Island and be back in Queenstown for tea. Spend the day at your own pace with an action-packed itinerary or soaking in the sun at the beach. 

We also offer Scenic Charters to anywhere within New Zealand.