MBA

Moi International Airport

ICAO HKMO4.0348°S 39.5942°E61 m / 200 ftLarge airport
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Moi International Airport (IATA: MBA, ICAO: HKMO) is a large airport in Mombasa, Mombasa County, Kenya. It opened in 1978. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,350 m (10,991 ft). It is operated by Kenya Airports Authority. In 2019 it handled 1.5 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1978–1978
1978
OpenedMoi International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Terminal 1 & 2GAT
03/21029° / 209° · LIT
LENGTH3,350 m10,991 ftWIDTH46 m151 ftSURFACEAsphalt
15/33150° / 330°
LENGTH1,363 m4,473 ftWIDTH36 m118 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2008–2019
887K
1.1M
1.3M
1.5M
1.4M
1.3M
1.4M
1.2M
1.3M
1.3M
1.5M
1.5M
080910111213141516171819

Routes

24 destinations · 12 countries
2,500 km5,000 km7,500 km1,000 mi2,000 mi3,000 mi4,000 miUKA · Ukunda Airstrip · 29 km / 18 miMYD · Malindi International Airport · 106 km / 66 miLAU · Manda Airport · 246 km / 153 miZNZ · Abeid Amani Karume International Airport · 247 km / 153 miASV · Amboseli Airport · 302 km / 188 miDAR · Julius Nyerere International Airport · 319 km / 198 miNBO · Jomo Kenyatta International Airport · 423 km / 263 miWIL · Nairobi Wilson Airport · 432 km / 268 miKEU · Keekorok Airport · 553 km / 344 miMRE · Mara Serena Lodge Airstrip · 587 km / 365 miEDL · Eldoret International Airport · 691 km / 429 miKIS · Kisumu International Airport · 696 km / 432 miEBB · Entebbe International Airport · 915 km / 569 miKGL · Kigali International Airport · 1,075 km / 668 miADD · Addis Ababa Bole International Airport · 1,450 km / 901 miDXB · Dubai International Airport · 3,675 km / 2,284 miIST · İstanbul Airport · 5,157 km / 3,204 miMXP · Milan Malpensa International Airport · 6,309 km / 3,920 miFRA · Frankfurt Main Airport · 6,707 km / 4,168 miFCO · Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport · 5,799 km / 3,603 miVRN · Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport · 6,188 km / 3,845 miPRG · Václav Havel Airport Prague · 6,491 km / 4,033 miWRO · Copernicus Wrocław Airport · 6,501 km / 4,040 miAMS · Amsterdam Airport Schiphol · 7,070 km / 4,393 miAMSWROMXPFCOISTDXBADDKGLWILFRAEBBEDLDARLAUPRGVRNMREASVMYDKISZNZMBA
Year-round19
UKAUkunda AirstripKenya · Mombasa Air Safari29 km18 miMYDMalindi International AirportKenya · Mombasa Air Safari106 km66 miLAUManda AirportKenya · Skyward Airlines, Mombasa Air Safari246 km153 miZNZAbeid Amani Karume International AirportTanzania · Jambojet, RwandAir, Flightlink +1247 km153 miASVAmboseli AirportKenya · Mombasa Air Safari302 km188 miDARJulius Nyerere International AirportTanzania · Skyward Airlines, Flightlink319 km198 miNBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Freedom Airline, Jambojet, 748 Air Services +2423 km263 miWILNairobi Wilson AirportKenya · Skyward Airlines, Safarilink Aviation432 km268 miKEUKeekorok AirportKenya · Mombasa Air Safari553 km344 miMREMara Serena Lodge AirstripKenya · Mombasa Air Safari587 km365 miEDLEldoret International AirportKenya · Jambojet691 km429 miKISKisumu International AirportKenya · Jambojet696 km432 miEBBEntebbe International AirportUganda · Uganda Airlines915 km569 miKGLKigali International AirportRwanda · RwandAir1,075 km668 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines1,450 km901 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai3,675 km2,284 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines5,157 km3,204 miMXPMilan Malpensa International AirportItaly · Neos6,309 km3,920 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Discover Airlines6,707 km4,168 mi
Most destinationsMombasa Air Safari 6Skyward Airlines 4Jambojet 4Neos 3RwandAir 2Flightlink 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MBA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Moi International Airport” (revision of 5 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers1.5M (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#688of 3,974 · #39 Africa · #2 KELongest runway3,350 m10,991 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=678of 29,823 · #103 Africa · #3 KEElevation61 m200 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=33,823of 43,341 · =2,771 Africa · =231 KEAgeOpened 19782026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=7,725of 15,079 · =91 Africa · #6 KERunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =24 Africa · =2 KE
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

4 channels
APPAPP120.300
GNDAPRON CTL121.600
RDRRDR121.700
TWRTWR118.600