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Sibu Airport

ICAO WBGS2.2616°N 111.9850°E37 m / 122 ftMedium airport
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Sibu Airport (IATA: SBW, ICAO: WBGS) is a medium airport in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia. It opened in 1994. It has one runway, 2,754 m (9,036 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Malaysia Airports. In 2021 it handled 242 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1994–1994
1994
OpenedSibu Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Sibu Airport Terminal
13/31130° / 310° · LIT
LENGTH2,754 m9,036 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2021
994K
1.1M
1.2M
1.4M
1.4M
1.5M
1.5M
1.5M
1.6M
1.8M
570K
242K
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Routes

8 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsAirAsia 4MASwings 3World Cargo Airlines 2Scoot 1Firefly 1Malaysia Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SBW. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Sibu Airport” (revision of 18 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers242K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,451of 3,974 · #475 Asia · #11 MYLongest runway2,754 m9,036 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#1,729of 29,823 · #517 Asia · #10 MYElevation37 m122 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,081of 43,341 · #2,213 Asia · #37 MYAgeOpened 19942026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=10,394of 15,079 · =487 Asia · #9 MYRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =3 MY
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

4 channels
APPAPP122.600
ATISATIS127.650
GNDGND121.900
TWRTWR122.600