BKI
Kota Kinabalu International Airport
Kota Kinabalu International Airport (IATA: BKI, ICAO: WBKK) is a large airport in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. It opened in 1943. It has one runway, 3,780 m (12,402 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Malaysia Airports. In 2021 it handled 1.1 million passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1943–19761943
OpenedKota Kinabalu International Airport opens.
06 JUN 1976
Disaster1976 Sabah Air GAF Nomad crash.11 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap02/20023° / 203° · LIT
LENGTH3,780 m12,402 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2010–20215.2M
5.8M
5.8M
6.9M
6.8M
6.6M
7.3M
8.0M
8.6M
9.4M
2.3M
1.1M
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Routes
40 destinations · 11 countriesYear-round35
LBULabuan AirportMalaysia · MASwings113 km70 miLWYLawas AirportMalaysia · MASwings140 km87 miBWNBrunei International AirportBrunei · Royal Brunei Airlines166 km103 miLMNLimbang AirportMalaysia · MASwings170 km106 miSDKSandakan AirportMalaysia · AirAsia222 km138 miMZVMulu AirportMalaysia · MASwings251 km156 miLDULahad Datu AirportMalaysia · MASwings271 km168 miMYYMiri AirportMalaysia · AirAsia290 km180 miTWUTawau AirportMalaysia · AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia292 km181 miBTUBintulu AirportMalaysia · AirAsia459 km285 miSBWSibu AirportMalaysia · AirAsia608 km378 miKCHKuching International AirportMalaysia · AirAsia802 km498 miMNLNinoy Aquino International AirportPhilippines · Philippines AirAsia1,098 km682 miSGNTan Son Nhat International AirportVietnam · AirAsia1,168 km726 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Scoot, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia1,431 km889 miJHBSenai International AirportMalaysia · AirAsia1,454 km903 miKBRSultan Ismail Petra AirportMalaysia · AirAsia1,521 km945 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Firefly, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +11,629 km1,012 miSZBSultan Abdul Aziz Shah International AirportMalaysia · Batik Air Malaysia1,637 km1,017 miHAKHaikou Meilan International AirportChina · 9 Air1,670 km1,038 miCGKSoekarno-Hatta International AirportIndonesia · Indonesia AirAsia1,698 km1,055 miPENPenang International AirportMalaysia · AirAsia1,747 km1,086 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · HK Express, AirAsia1,836 km1,141 miSZXShenzhen Bao'an International AirportChina · AirAsia1,873 km1,164 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · AirAsia1,964 km1,220 miXMNXiamen Gaoqi International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines2,081 km1,293 miTPETaiwan Taoyuan International AirportTaiwan · AirAsia2,199 km1,366 miFOCFuzhou Changle International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines2,257 km1,402 miHGHHangzhou Xiaoshan International AirportChina · AirAsia2,741 km1,703 miCKGChongqing Jiangbei International AirportChina · Chongqing Airlines2,822 km1,754 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · AirAsia, Shanghai Airlines2,867 km1,781 miFUKFukuoka AirportJapan · AirAsia3,415 km2,122 miPUSGimhae International AirportSouth Korea · Air Busan, Jin Air3,510 km2,181 miICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · AirAsia, Jeju Air, Jin Air3,662 km2,275 miPKXBeijing Daxing International AirportChina · AirAsia3,733 km2,320 miSeasonal3
DYGZhangjiajie Hehua International AirportChina · Batik Air Malaysia2,643 km1,642 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · Spring Airlines2,867 km1,781 miICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · Asiana Airlines3,662 km2,275 miSeasonal charter2
TFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Qingdao Airlines2,970 km1,845 miKIXKansai International AirportJapan · Batik Air Malaysia3,732 km2,319 miCargo6
BWNBrunei International AirportBrunei · Malaysia Airlines166 km103 miMYYMiri AirportMalaysia · World Cargo Airlines290 km180 miKCHKuching International AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines, World Cargo Airlines802 km498 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Raya Airways, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +11,629 km1,012 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia1,836 km1,141 miNKGNanjing Lukou International AirportChina · Raya Airways2,884 km1,792 miMost destinationsAirAsia 21Batik Air Malaysia 6MASwings 5Malaysia Airlines 4World Cargo Airlines 39 Air 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BKI. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Kota Kinabalu International Airport” (revision of 25 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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
7 channelsA/DKINABALU APP119.100
A/GKINABALU RDO682.500
ACCKINABALU CON126.100
ATISATIS127.400
GNDKINABALU GND121.600
INFOKINABALU133.300
TWRKINABALU TWR118.300