Sittwe Airport

ICAO VYSW20.1332°N 92.8707°E8 m / 27 ftMedium airport

Sittwe Airport (IATA: AKY, ICAO: VYSW) is a medium airport in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar. It has one runway, 1,829 m (6,001 ft) long, asphalt.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

11/29104° / 284° · LIT

LENGTH1,829 m6,001 ftWIDTH46 m151 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

4 destinations · 1 country

Year-round4

KYPKyaukpyu AirportMyanmar (Burma) · Myanmar National Airlines105 km65 mi NYTNay Pyi Taw International AirportMyanmar (Burma) · Myanmar National Airlines353 km219 mi BSXPathein AirportMyanmar (Burma) · Myanmar National Airlines420 km261 mi RGNYangon International AirportMyanmar (Burma) · Myanmar National Airlines, Mann Yatanarpon Airlines, Mingalar Aviation Services497 km309 mi

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

Airlines

3 airlines · destinations from AKY

Passenger3

UBMyanmar National Airlines4 7YMann Yatanarpon Airlines1 K7Mingalar Aviation Services1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from AKY. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Longest runway1,829 m6,001 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,583of 29,858 · =1,195 Asia · #26 MM Elevation8 m27 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,737of 43,403 · =2,822 Asia · #68 MM Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =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

2 channels

APPAPP119.700

TWRTWR118.700