Kawthoung Airport

ICAO VYKT10.0493°N 98.5380°E55 m / 180 ftMedium airport

Kawthoung Airport (IATA: KAW, ICAO: VYKT) is a medium airport in Kawthoung, Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It has one runway, 1,829 m (6,000 ft) long, asphalt.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

02/20018° / 198° · LIT

LENGTH1,829 m6,000 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

MGZMyeik AirportMyanmar (Burma) · Myanmar National Airlines266 km165 mi TVYDawei AirportMyanmar (Burma) · Myanmar National Airlines, Mingalar Aviation Services452 km281 mi RGNYangon International AirportMyanmar (Burma) · Myanmar National Airlines, Mingalar Aviation Services806 km501 mi

Most destinationsMyanmar National Airlines 3Mingalar Aviation Services 2

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

Records & rankings

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

Longest runway1,829 m6,000 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,612of 29,823 · =1,202 Asia · #27 MM Elevation55 m180 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=34,384of 43,341 · =2,021 Asia · #48 MM Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =1 MM

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

1 channels

TWRTWR118.700