Lawas Airport is conveniently located at Lawas. Lawas is one of the tourist destinations of Malaysia. At present this is the sole airport at Lawas. However there are plans to construct another airport at Lawas too. Some of the places worth visiting at Lawas are Sungai Bangat Beach, Miunt Murud, Tanjung resort in Kuala Lawas,Punang Beach, Pa' Lelau in Merarap, and Kampung air Terjun.
The ICAO code of the Lawas airport at Malaysia is WBGW while the IATA code is LWY. The airport is basically a civil airport which means it is open for public use. The latitude and the longitude of the airport is 4.916667 and 115.416664 respectively. The runaway of the airport is paved and it measures up to 2200 feet. The IFR facility is not available at the airport which means the landing of the aircraft during bad weather conditions and in the dark is not possible. The main airlines which operates here at the Lawas airport in Malaysia is Malaysia airlines. One chartered aircraft also operates here from this airport.
The shortest flight that operates out of Lawas airport covers a dsitance of 26 miles. For short haul destinations, Lawas has forty four flights departing every week. Apart from this there are forty four domestic flights operating out of Lawas every week. The longest flight from this airport on the other hand covers a distance of 103 miles.
This airport is directly connected to Miri, Limbang, Bakalalan, and Kota Kinabalu directly. International connecting flights are also available from the airport. Apart from this you can also avail connecting domestic flights from here. Some of the places where connecting domestic flights are available are:
- Miri
- Limbang
- Bario
- Bander Seri Begawan etc
On Malaysia tours Flightshotelstours.com offers detailed information on Lawas Airport and also on flights to Malaysia.
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