# Pointe Vele Airport (FUT / NLWF)

**Pointe Vele Airport** (IATA: FUT, ICAO: NLWF) is a small airport in Futuna Island, Wallis and Futuna. It has one runway, 1,100 m (3,609 ft) long. In 2022 it handled 13 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: FUT / NLWF
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Futuna Island, Wallis and Futuna
- Elevation: 6 m / 20 ft
- Coordinates: -14.3116, -178.0665
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,100 m / 3,609 ft
- Passengers: 13,009 (2022)
- Time zone: UTC+12 · Pacific/Wallis
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe_Vele_Airport (17 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182132
- Weather station: NLWF · WMO 91754
- Ident: NLWF

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 07/25 | 1,100 m / 3,609 ft | 30 m / 98 ft |  |  |  |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2011 | 13,614 | Wikidata |
| 2012 | 14,066 | Wikidata |
| 2013 | 13,017 | Wikidata |
| 2014 | 12,789 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 13,793 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 15,020 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 14,298 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 13,640 | Wikidata |
| 2019 | 12,959 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 11,621 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 8,760 | Wikidata |
| 2022 | 13,009 | Wikidata |

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 13K (2022) | #2,586 of 3,974 | #137 in Oceania | #2 in WF |
| Longest runway | 1,100 m / 3,609 ft | =11,801 of 29,858 | =952 in Oceania | #2 in WF |
| Elevation | 6 m / 20 ft | =41,280 of 43,403 | =2,015 in Oceania | #2 in WF |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =526 in Oceania | =1 in WF |

## Nearby airports

No open airport within 150 km / 93 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)
- [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/nlwf/data