# Cassidy International Airport (CXI / PLCH)

**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.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: CXI / PLCH
- Type: Large airport
- Serves: Kiritimati, Line Islands, Kiribati
- Elevation: 2 m / 5 ft
- Coordinates: 1.9863, -157.3500
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 2,103 m / 6,900 ft
- Time zone: UTC+14 · Pacific/Kiritimati
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassidy_International_Airport (16 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1431055
- Weather station: PLCH · WMO 91490
- Ident: PLCH

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 08/26 | 2,103 m / 6,900 ft | 30 m / 98 ft | Asphalt | 090° / 270° | yes |

## Routes

3 destinations in 3 countries. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (3)

- [HNL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/phnl.md) Daniel K. Inouye International Airport · United States · 2,151 km / 1,337 mi · Fiji Airways
- [TRW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ngta.md) Bonriki International Airport · Kiribati · 3,280 km / 2,038 mi · Nauru Airlines
- [NAN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/nffn.md) Nadi International Airport · Fiji · 3,528 km / 2,192 mi · Fiji Airways

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (2)

- FJ [Fiji Airways](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/fiji-airways) · 2
- ON [Nauru Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/nauru-airlines) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 2,103 m / 6,900 ft | =3,571 of 29,858 | #93 in Oceania | #1 in KI |
| Elevation | 2 m / 5 ft | =43,055 of 43,403 | =2,265 in Oceania | =20 in KI |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =526 in Oceania | =1 in KI |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| INFO | AFIS | 118.100 |
| INFO | AFIS | 346.000 |

## 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)
- [Wikipedia: “Cassidy International Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassidy_International_Airport&oldid=1363025527), revision of 7 Jul 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/plch/data