# Kamloops John Moose Fulton Field Regional Airport (YKA / CYKA)

**Kamloops John Moose Fulton Field Regional Airport** (IATA: YKA, ICAO: CYKA) is a medium airport in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. It opened on 5 Aug 1939. It has 2 runways; the longest is 2,438 m (8,000 ft). In 2025 it handled 294 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyka

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YKA / CYKA
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
- Opened: 5 Aug 1939
- Elevation: 345 m / 1,133 ft
- Coordinates: 50.7030, -120.4486
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 2,438 m / 8,000 ft
- Passengers: 293,840 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-8/-7 · America/Vancouver
- Website: https://www.kamloopsairport.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops_Airport (12 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1431644
- Weather station: CYKA · WMO 71887
- Ident: CYKA

## Timeline

- 5 Aug 1939: Kamloops John Moose Fulton Field Regional Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 09/27 | 2,438 m / 8,000 ft | 45 m / 148 ft | Asphalt | 103° / 283° | yes |
| 05/23 | 572 m / 1,875 ft | 15 m / 49 ft | Asphalt | 061° / 241° |  |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 324,042 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 322,339 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 314,364 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 351,631 | Wikidata |
| 2019 | 361,586 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 123,675 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 104,385 | Wikidata |
| 2022 | 257,374 | Wikidata |
| 2023 | 311,696 | Wikidata |
| 2024 | 310,507 | Wikidata |
| 2025 | 293,840 | Wikidata |

## Routes

4 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (3)

- [YVR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyvr.md) Vancouver International Airport · Canada · 258 km / 160 mi · Air Canada Express
- [YYJ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyyj.md) Victoria International Airport · Canada · 313 km / 194 mi · Pacific Coastal Airlines
- [YYC](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyyc.md) Calgary International Airport · Canada · 454 km / 282 mi · WestJet Encore

### Seasonal (2)

- [YVR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyvr.md) Vancouver International Airport · Canada · 258 km / 160 mi · Air North
- [YEG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyeg.md) Edmonton International Airport · Canada · 552 km / 343 mi · WestJet Encore

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from YKA, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (4)

- WR [WestJet Encore](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/westjet-encore) · 2
- [Air Canada Express](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/air-canada-express) · 1
- 4N [Air North](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/air-north) · 1 · seasonal
- 8P [Pacific Coastal Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/pacific-coastal-airlines) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 294K (2025) | #1,359 of 3,974 | #307 in North America | #30 in CA |
| Longest runway | 2,438 m / 8,000 ft | =2,750 of 29,858 | =583 in North America | =38 in CA |
| Elevation | 345 m / 1,133 ft | =15,841 of 43,403 | =6,936 in North America | #639 in CA |
| Age | Opened 1939 | =1,029 of 15,079 | =343 in North America | =18 in CA |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =43 in CA |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PAL | Vancouver Control | 132.350 |
| RCO | Pacific Radio (FISE) | 123.375 |
| PVT ADV | Shell Aerocenter | 123.000 |
| VDF |  | 125.700 |
| MF | Kamloops Radio, 5nm below 4100ASL | 125.700 |
| CLNC DEL | Light hrs | 121.900 |

## Nearby airports

- [YZA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/caz5.md) Cache Creek-Ashcroft Regional Airport · 62 km / 38 mi
- [YSN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/czam.md) Shuswap Regional Airport · 86 km / 53 mi
- [YVE](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyvk.md) Vernon Regional Airport · 94 km / 58 mi
- [YLW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/cylw.md) Kelowna International Airport · 113 km / 70 mi

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Kamloops Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kamloops_Airport&oldid=1372745282), revision of 2 Sep 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/cyka/data