Miri Airport Lapangan Terbang Miri | |||||||||||
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 View of the runway at Miri Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Khazanah Nasional | ||||||||||
| Operator | Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad | ||||||||||
| Serves | Miri, Sarawak | ||||||||||
| Location | Miri, Sarawak | ||||||||||
| Hub for | MASwings, HAS International Sdn Bhd, Hornbill Skyways | ||||||||||
| Time zone | MST (UTC+08:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 59 ft / 18 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 04°19′31″N 113°59′18″E / 4.32528°N 113.98833°E | ||||||||||
| Website | https://www.miriairport.com/ | ||||||||||
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 Sarawak state in Malaysia | |||||||||||
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Miri Airport[3] (IATA: MYY, ICAO: WBGR) is an airport located 9.5 km (5.9 mi) south east[2] of Miri, a city in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The airport is the sixth-busiest airport in Malaysia, and the second-busiest in Sarawak.
Miri Airport is the main hub for MASWings Twin Otter fleet which took over the rural air services from FlyAsianXpress. Its location in the middle of Malaysian Borneo close to the border of Brunei makes it a suitable hub for rural air services and an important gateway to Sarawak. In 2014, Miri Airport was the sixth-busiest airport in terms of aircraft movements and the sixth-busiest in terms of passengers handled with 2,363,080 passenger movements and 49,204 aircraft movements in the airport.[1]
Miri Airport is the second largest airport in Sarawak after Kuching International Airport, with a terminal floor space of 16,448m².[4] Miri Airport is not considered an international airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) and Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) despite having daily scheduled international flights.
- ^ a b Miri International Airport, Sarawak at Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad
- ^ a b WBGR - MIRI at Department of Civil Aviation Malaysia
- ^ "Official Portal Ministry of Transportation, Malaysia. List of Airports".
- ^ "Tender Briefing for Package Deal (Sarawak)" (PDF). MAHB. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2019.