TWU

Tawau Airport

ICAO WBKW4.3134°N 118.1215°E17 m / 57 ftMedium airport
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Tawau Airport (IATA: TWU, ICAO: WBKW) is a medium airport in Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia. It opened in 2001. It has one runway, 2,682 m (8,800 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Malaysia Airports. In 2021 it handled 416 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1995–2001
15 SEP 1995
DisasterMalaysia Airlines Flight 2133.34 killed
2001
OpenedTawau Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Tawau Airport Teminal
06/24058° / 238° · LIT
LENGTH2,682 m8,800 ftWIDTH47 m155 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2021
898K
922K
982K
1.2M
1.2M
1.2M
1.3M
1.5M
1.6M
1.8M
572K
416K
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Routes

8 destinations · 4 countries
Most destinationsAirAsia 6MASwings 1Firefly 1Malaysia Airlines 1Juneyao Air 1Greater Bay Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from TWU. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Tawau Airport” (revision of 31 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers416K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,195of 3,974 · #386 Asia · #9 MYLongest runway2,682 m8,800 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,953of 29,823 · #611 Asia · #15 MYElevation17 m57 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,810of 43,341 · =2,564 Asia · #53 MYAgeOpened 20012026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=11,474of 15,079 · =569 Asia · #11 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

3 channels
APPAPP123.550
GNDGND121.900
TWRTWR122.500