KUA

Kuantan Airport

ICAO WMKD3.7754°N 103.2090°E18 m / 58 ftMedium airport
On the map
Kuantan-airport-building
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Kuantan Airport (IATA: KUA, ICAO: WMKD) is a medium airport in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. It has one runway, 2,804 m (9,200 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Malaysian Armed Forces. In 2021 it handled 21 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
18/36183° / 003° · LIT
LENGTH2,804 m9,200 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2009–2021
227K
221K
249K
280K
317K
314K
292K
248K
241K
259K
71K
21K
091011121314151617182021

Routes

2 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsMalaysia Airlines 1Scoot 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KUA. From the Wikipedia article “Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers21K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,419of 3,974 · #744 Asia · #21 MYLongest runway2,804 m9,200 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,602of 29,823 · =456 Asia · #9 MYElevation18 m58 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,793of 43,341 · =2,562 Asia · #52 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
APPAPP118.100
ATISATIS127.500
GNDGND28.960
TWRTWR118.100