Kerteh Airport Lapangan Terbang Kerteh | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Private | ||||||||||
| Owner | Petronas | ||||||||||
| Operator | Senai Airport Terminal Services Sdn Bhd | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kemaman, Terengganu, Malaysia | ||||||||||
| Location | Kerteh, Terengganu, Malaysia | ||||||||||
| Time zone | MST (UTC+08:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 18 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 04°32′15″N 103°25′36″E / 4.53750°N 103.42667°E | ||||||||||
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  KTE /WMKE Location in Kemaman, Terengganu  KTE /WMKE KTE /WMKE (Peninsular Malaysia)  KTE /WMKE KTE /WMKE (Malaysia) | |||||||||||
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Kerteh Airport (IATA: KTE, ICAO: WMKE) is an airport in Kerteh, Kemaman District, Terengganu in Malaysia.
The airport is owned by Petroleum Nasional Berhad or Petronas via its East Coast Regional Office (ECRO), and was built to serve the purpose of airlifting its employees and ExxonMobil employees to their various oil platforms located 100–200 km offshore South China Sea. The airport is operated by Senai Airport Terminal Services Sdn Bhd which is the operator of Senai International Airport since 2019.[2] The airport although small, has a single 1,362 m (4,469 ft) long runway which can accommodate a Boeing 737-400 aircraft.
Most of the airport's operations are centred on the helicopters operated by Malaysia Helicopter Services (MHS) used to transport workers to the platforms. The airport also used to have a weekday fixed-wing chartered service using a Beechcraft 1900 Airliner turboprop aircraft, also operated by MHS, which shuttles Petronas and ExxonMobil employees from Kerteh to the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (SZB) in Subang near Kuala Lumpur.
In 1990, the Terengganu state government discussed with Petronas on expanding the airport to cater to bigger aircraft.[3]
- ^ WMKE - KERTEH at Department of Civil Aviation Malaysia
- ^ "Senai International Airport now manages Kertih Airport operations". 2 January 2019.
- ^ "Proposal for direct flight between Kuala Trengganu and Singapore". The Straits Times. 31 July 1990. Retrieved 29 March 2024.