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Komodo Airport

ICAO WATO8.4807°S 119.8883°E20 m / 66 ftSmall airport
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Indonesian Ministry of Transportation · Public domain · Commons

Komodo Airport (IATA: LBJ, ICAO: WATO) is a small airport in Labuan Bajo, Manggarai Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur (East Nusa Tenggara), Indonesia. It has one runway, 2,250 m (7,381 ft) long, asphalt. In 2018 it handled 470 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Labuan Bajo
17/35172° / 352°
LENGTH2,250 m7,381 ftWIDTH44 m145 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2018
130K
189K
266K
200K
151K
470K
111314151618

Routes

13 destinations · 3 countries
1,000 km2,000 km500 mi1,000 mi1,500 miTMC · Tambolaka Airport · 125 km / 78 miBJW · Bajawa Soa (Turelelo) Airport · 131 km / 81 miWGP · Umbu Mehang Kunda Airport · 140 km / 87 miENE · H. Hasan Aroeboesman (Ende) Airport · 199 km / 124 miMOF · Frans Xavier Seda Airport · 259 km / 161 miUPG · Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport · 380 km / 236 miLOP · Lombok International Airport · 398 km / 247 miKOE · El Tari Airport · 456 km / 283 miDPS · Denpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport · 520 km / 323 miSUB · Juanda International Airport · 792 km / 492 miCGK · Soekarno-Hatta International Airport · 1,483 km / 921 miSIN · Singapore Changi Airport · 2,073 km / 1,288 miKUL · Kuala Lumpur International Airport · 2,371 km / 1,473 miKULSINCGKSUBDPSKOEUPGMOFLOPWGPBJWTMCENELBJ
Year-round13
TMCTambolaka AirportIndonesia · Wings Air125 km78 miBJWBajawa Soa (Turelelo) AirportIndonesia · Wings Air131 km81 miWGPUmbu Mehang Kunda AirportIndonesia · Susi Air140 km87 miENEH. Hasan Aroeboesman (Ende) AirportIndonesia · Wings Air199 km124 miMOFFrans Xavier Seda AirportIndonesia · Wings Air259 km161 miUPGSultan Hasanuddin International AirportIndonesia · Wings Air380 km236 miLOPLombok International AirportIndonesia · Wings Air398 km247 miKOEEl Tari AirportIndonesia · Wings Air456 km283 miDPSDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International AirportIndonesia · Batik Air, Indonesia AirAsia520 km323 miSUBJuanda International AirportIndonesia · Super Air Jet792 km492 miCGKSoekarno-Hatta International AirportIndonesia · Super Air Jet, Citilink, Batik Air +11,483 km921 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Scoot2,073 km1,288 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · AirAsia2,371 km1,473 mi
Most destinationsWings Air 7Batik Air 2Indonesia AirAsia 2Super Air Jet 2Susi Air 1Citilink 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LBJ. From the Wikipedia article “Komodo International Airport” (revision of 13 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers470K (2018)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,141of 3,974 · #366 Asia · #41 IDLongest runway2,250 m7,381 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,189of 29,823 · =986 Asia · =40 IDElevation20 m66 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,288of 43,341 · =2,488 Asia · =429 IDRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =9 ID
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
A/GLABUHAN BAJO RDO449.500
INFOLABUHAN BAJO INFO122.700