WMX

Wamena Airport

ICAO WAVV4.0973°S 138.9524°E1,657 m / 5,435 ftMedium airport
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Wamena Airport (IATA: WMX, ICAO: WAVV) is a medium airport in Wamena, Papua Pegunungan (Highland Papua), Indonesia. It has one runway, 2,175 m (7,135 ft) long, asphalt. In 2017 it handled 401 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Terminal Bandar Udara WamenaHelividaMAFAMACenderawasih Air
15/33153° / 333° · LIT
LENGTH2,175 m7,135 ftWIDTH45 m147 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2017
202K
401K
1017

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from WMX. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Wamena Airport” (revision of 17 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

6 airlines · destinations from WMX
Passenger3
SJSriwijaya Air1SISusi Air1IWWings Air1
Cargo3
—Jayawijaya Dirgantara2GMAsia Cargo Airlines12YMy Indo Airlines1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers401K (2017)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,210of 3,974 · #389 Asia · #45 IDLongest runway2,175 m7,135 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,382of 29,858 · #1,016 Asia · #47 IDElevation1,657 m5,435 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=1,530of 43,403 · #229 Asia · #102 IDRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =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

3 channels
AFISINFO120.000
TWR120.000
ATISWamena ATIS127.200