Faleolo International Airport

ICAO NSFA13.8300°S 172.0080°W18 m / 58 ftLarge airport

Faleolo International Airport (IATA: APW, ICAO: NSFA) is a large airport in Apia, A'ana District, Samoa. It has one runway, 3,000 m (9,843 ft) long, asphalt.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

08/26089° / 269° · LIT

LENGTH3,000 m9,843 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

7 destinations · 6 countries

Year-round7

MXSMaota AirportSamoa · Samoa Airways29 km18 mi PPGPago Pago International AirportAmerican Samoa · Talofa Airways, Samoa Airways151 km94 mi NANNadi International AirportFiji · Fiji Airways1,211 km752 mi AKLAuckland International AirportNew Zealand · Air New Zealand, Qantas Airways2,892 km1,797 mi BNEBrisbane International AirportAustralia · Qantas Airways3,912 km2,431 mi HNLDaniel K. Inouye International AirportUnited States · Fiji Airways4,200 km2,610 mi SYDSydney Kingsford Smith International AirportAustralia · Qantas Airways4,324 km2,687 mi

Most destinationsQantas Airways 3Samoa Airways 2Fiji Airways 2Talofa Airways 1Air New Zealand 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from APW. From the Wikipedia article “Faleolo International Airport” (revision of 27 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Longest runway3,000 m9,843 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,196of 29,823 · #29 Oceania · #1 WS Elevation18 m58 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,793of 43,341 · =1,721 Oceania · #3 WS Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =526 Oceania · =1 WS

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

9 channels

APPAPP118.100

APPAPP655.300

APPAPP1790.400

INFORDO118.100

INFORDO655.300

INFORDO1790.400

TWRTWR118.100

TWRTWR655.300

TWRTWR1790.400