# Alliance Municipal Airport (AIA / KAIA)

**Alliance Municipal Airport** (IATA: AIA, ICAO: KAIA) is a medium airport in Alliance, Nebraska, United States. It opened in Feb 1944. It has 3 runways; the longest is 9,203 ft (2,805 m). In 2025 it handled 8 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: AIA / KAIA
- FAA: AIA
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Alliance, Nebraska, United States
- Opened: Feb 1944
- Elevation: 3,931 ft / 1,198 m
- Coordinates: 42.0525, -102.8040
- Runways: 3
- Longest runway: 9,203 ft / 2,805 m
- Instrument procedures: 7 approaches
- Passengers: 7,612 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-7/-6 · America/Denver
- Website: http://www.flyalliancene.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Municipal_Airport (9 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4732325
- Weather station: KAIA
- Ident: KAIA

## Timeline

- Feb 1944: Alliance Municipal Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 12/30 | 9,203 ft / 2,805 m | 150 ft / 46 m | Asphalt | 134° / 314° | yes |
| 17/35 | 6,311 ft / 1,924 m | 75 ft / 23 m | Asphalt | 179° / 359° |  |
| 08/26 | 6,190 ft / 1,887 m | 75 ft / 23 m | Asphalt | 089° / 269° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/00016AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 4,510 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 10,990 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 12,247 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 10,188 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 5,943 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 3,068 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 6,770 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 8,092 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 8,507 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 8,149 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 7,612 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [DEN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kden.md) Denver International Airport · United States · 180 mi / 290 km · Denver Air Connection

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- [Denver Air Connection](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/denver-air-connection) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 8K (2025) | #2,792 of 3,974 | #702 in North America | #501 in US |
| Longest runway | 9,203 ft / 2,805 m | =1,600 of 29,858 | =343 in North America | #254 in US |
| Elevation | 3,931 ft / 1,198 m | #3,649 of 43,403 | #1,951 in North America | #1,539 in US |
| Age | Opened 1944 | =2,300 of 15,079 | =1,299 in North America | =1,249 in US |
| Runways | 3 | =151 of 29,978 | =83 in North America | =81 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ASOS | ASOS | 135.075 |
| CNTR | DENVER CNTR | 127.950 |
| RDO | COLUMBUS RDO | 122.300 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 123.000 |

## Nearby airports

- [BFF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbff.md) Western Neb. Rgnl/William B. Heilig Airport · 43 mi / 68 km
- [CDR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kcdr.md) Chadron Municipal Airport · 56 mi / 91 km
- [SNY](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ksny.md) Sidney Municipal Airport Lloyd W Carr Field · 66 mi / 107 km

## Sources

- [BTS T-100 Segment](https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?QO_VQ=EEE&QO_anzr=Nv4%20Pn44vr45): US traffic: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (Public Domain (US Government))
- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [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: “Alliance Municipal Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alliance_Municipal_Airport&oldid=1374245187), revision of 10 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/kaia/data