Cassidy International Airport

ICAO PLCH1.9863°N 157.3500°W2 m / 5 ftLarge airport

Cassidy International Airport (IATA: CXI, ICAO: PLCH) is a large airport in Kiritimati, Line Islands, Kiribati. It has one runway, 2,103 m (6,900 ft) long, asphalt.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

08/26090° / 270° · LIT

LENGTH2,103 m6,900 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

3 destinations · 3 countries

Year-round3

HNLDaniel K. Inouye International AirportUnited States · Fiji Airways2,151 km1,337 mi TRWBonriki International AirportKiribati · Nauru Airlines3,280 km2,038 mi NANNadi International AirportFiji · Fiji Airways3,528 km2,192 mi

Most destinationsFiji Airways 2Nauru Airlines 1

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

Records & rankings

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

Longest runway2,103 m6,900 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,571of 29,823 · #93 Oceania · #1 KI Elevation2 m5 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=42,995of 43,341 · =2,249 Oceania · =20 KI Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =526 Oceania · =1 KI

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

2 channels

INFOAFIS118.100

INFOAFIS346.000