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Pago Pago International Airport

ICAO NSTU14.3310°S 170.7100°W31 ft / 10 mLarge airport
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NSTU Airport Diagram
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Pago Pago International Airport (IATA: PPG, ICAO: NSTU) is a large airport in Pago Pago, Western District, American Samoa. It opened on 17 Mar 1942. It has 2 runways; the longest is 10,001 ft (3,048 m). In 2025 it handled 84 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1942–1974
17 MAR 1942
OpenedPago Pago International Airport opens.
30 JAN 1974
DisasterPan Am Flight 806.97 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
05/23060° / 240° · LIT
LENGTH10,001 ft3,048 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
08/26090° / 270° · LIT
LENGTH3,801 ft1,159 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
127K
136K
140K
148K
149K
25K
17K
43K
86K
89K
84K
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Routes

5 destinations · 3 countries
Most destinationsSamoa Airways 4Talofa Airways 1Hawaiian Airlines 1Asia Pacific Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PPG. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Pago Pago International Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers84K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,880of 3,974 · #83 Oceania · #1 ASLongest runway10,001 ft3,048 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,048of 29,823 · #24 Oceania · #1 ASElevation31 ft10 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#40,368of 43,341 · #1,890 Oceania · #2 ASAgeOpened 19422026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,791of 15,079 · =47 Oceania · #1 ASRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =62 Oceania · #1 AS
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

3 channels
A/DFALEOLO APP/DEP126.900
CTAFCTAF122.900
UNICUNICOM118.300