Sultan Ahmad Shah Airport Lapangan Terbang Sultan Ahmad Shah | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public/military | ||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Malaysia | ||||||||||
| Operator | Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kuantan | ||||||||||
| Location | Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia | ||||||||||
| Time zone | MST (UTC+08:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 55 ft / 17 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 03°46′11″N 103°12′34″E / 3.76972°N 103.20944°E | ||||||||||
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 Pahang state in Malaysia | |||||||||||
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Sultan Ahmad Shah Airport (IATA: KUA, ICAO: WMKD) is an airport that serves Kuantan, a city in the state of Pahang, Malaysia. The airport is located 15 km from the city. In 2009, the airport handled 226,912 passengers on 3,110 flights, though the airport is able to handle over one million passengers annually.[3] In 2008, Taiwan and Tourism Malaysia co-operated so that there were 23 charter flights directly from Taipei to Kuantan Airport; this made Kuantan Sultan Ahmad Shah Airport the first airport on the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia that received international flights. Passengers have to walk from the aircraft to the arrival hall.
Co-located with the airport is RMAF Kuantan, housing 15 Squadron (BAE Hawk) and 17 Squadron (MiG-29) of the Royal Malaysian Air Force.
- ^ Sultan Ahmad Shah Airport, Kuantan at Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad
- ^ WMKD – KUANTAN AIRPORT Archived 27 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine at Department of Civil Aviation Malaysia
- ^ Sultan Ahmad Shah Airport, Kuantan official page at Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad