Sultan Ismail Petra Airport was inaugurated in September 2002 and has a terminal area of 12,000 mē. There are three aerobridges and aircraft stands in the airport and it has the capacity to take in 1.4 million passengers. There are all the facilities at the airport to take care of the increasing tourist inflow in the region. In 2005 635,397 passengers were handled in the Airport in Sultan Ismail Petra. Nearly 8, 765 aircrafts operated from the airport on the same year. The airport acted as a RAF base in December 1941 when the Japanese landed in Malaya. The airport is operated by the Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad.
The ICAO code of Sultan Ismail Petra Airport in Kota Bharu in Malaysia is WMKC and the IATA code is KBR. It is one of the civilian airports and the runway is paved. The length of the airport is 6400 ft. The elevation of the airport above the mean sea level is 5 m. The Sultan Ismail Petra Airport in Kota Bharu at Malaysia lies at a latitude of 6.16685006° 10' 00.66" N and a longitude of 102.293014102° 17' 34.85" E. The magnetic variation of the airport is 000° W (01/06).
Sultan Ismail Petra Airport in frequented by the international and the domestic flights. Some of the important international destinations are US, North America, South America, Central America, Mexico, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, Middle East and Caribbean.
Kuala Lumpur is one of the domestic destinations from where you can reach Sultan Ismail Petra Airport.
Important airlines operating their flights at the airport comprise of:
- Air Asia
- Malaysia Airlines
The Sultan Ismail Petra Airport offer a number of other facilities which include:
- Telephone Booth
- Luggage Carts
- Flight information on monitors
- Medical Aid
- Restroom
- Internet
- Restaurant
- Business Lounge
- Security services
- Car Rental
- Aviation fuel
- Aircraft parking
- Pilot Lounge
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