Chileka International Airport | |||||||||||||||
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 The passenger terminal at Chileka | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Malawi | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Civil Aviation Authority of Malawi | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Blantyre, Malawi | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Nyambala, Chileka | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,555 ft / 779 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 15°40′52″S 34°58′18″E / 15.68111°S 34.97167°E | ||||||||||||||
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  BLZ Location within Malawi | |||||||||||||||
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Chileka International Airport (IATA: BLZ, ICAO: FWCL) is an international airport in Malawi. It is located approximately 13 km (7 nmi; 8 mi), by road, northwest of Blantyre, the second largest city in the Republic of Malawi and the country's commercial and financial capital.[3] Chileka is Malawi's second international airport, the other being Kamuzu International Airport, in Lilongwe, the nation's capital city.[4]
- ^ Airport information for FWCL[usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
- ^ Airport information for BLZ at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ "Distance Between Blantyre And Chileka International Airport" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ Duncan Mlanjira (2 January 2020). "Chileka International Airport Now Operational For Big Aircrafts [sic]". Nyasa Times. Blantyre. Retrieved 7 May 2020.