KUL
Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (IATA: KUL, ICAO: WMKK) is a large airport in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia. It opened on 27 Jun 1998. It has 3 runways; the longest is 4,124 m (13,530 ft). It is operated by Malaysia Airports. In 2022 it handled 25.4 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1998–199827 JUN 1998
OpenedKuala Lumpur International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap14L/32R146° / 326° · LIT
LENGTH4,124 m13,530 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEPaved
14R/32L146° / 326° · LIT
LENGTH4,050 m13,288 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEPaved
15/33146° / 326° · LIT
LENGTH3,960 m12,993 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEPaved
Passengers per year
2011–202237.7M
39.9M
47.5M
48.9M
48.9M
52.6M
58.6M
60.0M
62.3M
13.1M
4.0M
25.4M
111213141516171819202122
Routes
148 destinations · 43 countriesYear-round143
KUAKuantan AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines202 km126 miJHBSenai International AirportMalaysia · Firefly, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +1250 km155 miPKUSultan Syarif Kasim II International Airport / Roesmin Nurjadin AFBIndonesia · Lion Air, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +1256 km159 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Scoot, Firefly, Ethiopian Airlines +5297 km185 miBTHHang Nadim International AirportIndonesia · AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia323 km201 miPENPenang International AirportMalaysia · Firefly, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia325 km202 miKNOKualanamu International AirportIndonesia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Batik Air +2330 km205 miTGGSultan Mahmud AirportMalaysia · Firefly, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia331 km206 miKBRSultan Ismail Petra AirportMalaysia · Firefly, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +1386 km240 miAORSultan Abdul Halim AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia410 km255 miPDGMinangkabau International AirportIndonesia · Lion Air, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia424 km263 miLGKLangkawi International AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia455 km283 miHDYHat Yai International AirportThailand · Thai AirAsia488 km303 miKBVKrabi International AirportThailand · Firefly, AirAsia667 km414 miHKTPhuket International AirportThailand · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia705 km438 miPLMSultan Mahmud Badaruddin II AirportIndonesia · AirAsia710 km441 miBTJSultan Iskandar Muda International AirportIndonesia · Super Air Jet, AirAsia763 km474 miPQCPhú Quốc International AirportVietnam · Sun PhuQuoc Airways, AirAsia863 km536 miKOSSihanouk International AirportCambodia · Sky Angkor Airlines, AirAsia896 km557 miPNKSupadio International AirportIndonesia · AirAsia914 km568 miTKGRadin Inten II International AirportIndonesia · TransNusa Air Services969 km602 miKCHKuching International AirportMalaysia · Firefly, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +2971 km603 miKTITecho International AirportCambodia · AirAsia Cambodia, Malaysia Airlines, Cambodia Airways1,021 km634 miSGNTan Son Nhat International AirportVietnam · Vietnam Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +11,050 km652 miCGKSoekarno-Hatta International AirportIndonesia · Citilink, KLM, Malaysia Airlines +51,129 km702 miSBWSibu AirportMalaysia · Firefly, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +11,143 km710 miSAISiem Reap-Angkor International AirportCambodia · AirAsia Cambodia1,213 km754 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · Thai Vietjet Air, Malaysia Airlines1,221 km759 miDLILien Khuong AirportVietnam · AirAsia1,241 km771 miDMKDon Mueang International AirportThailand · Thai AirAsia, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia1,248 km775 miBTUBintulu AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia1,257 km781 miCXRCam Ranh International Airport / Cam Ranh Air BaseVietnam · AirAsia1,320 km820 miMYYMiri AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia1,374 km854 miSRGJenderal Ahmad Yani AirportIndonesia · AirAsia1,446 km899 miBWNBrunei International AirportBrunei · Royal Brunei Airlines, AirAsia1,487 km924 miYIAYogyakarta International AirportIndonesia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia1,503 km934 miLBULabuan AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia1,528 km949 miBDJSyamsudin Noor International AirportIndonesia · AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia1,605 km997 miBKIKota Kinabalu International AirportMalaysia · Firefly, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +11,629 km1,012 miDADDa Nang International AirportVietnam · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia +11,640 km1,019 miSUBJuanda International AirportIndonesia · Malaysia Airlines, Batik Air, Batik Air Malaysia +11,667 km1,036 miRGNYangon International AirportMyanmar (Burma) · Malaysia Airlines1,688 km1,049 miVTEWattay International AirportLaos · AirAsia1,697 km1,054 miBPNSultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan International AirportIndonesia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia1,746 km1,085 miCNXChiang Mai International AirportThailand · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia1,806 km1,122 miTWUTawau AirportMalaysia · Firefly, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +11,830 km1,137 miSDKSandakan AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia1,846 km1,147 miDPSDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International AirportIndonesia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia X, AirAsia +21,964 km1,220 miBARQionghai Bo'ao AirportChina · Hainan Airlines2,056 km1,278 miLOPLombok International AirportIndonesia · Lion Air, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia +12,060 km1,280 miHANNoi Bai International AirportVietnam · Vietnam Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +22,102 km1,306 miHAKHaikou Meilan International AirportChina · Hainan Airlines, Batik Air Malaysia2,134 km1,326 miUPGSultan Hasanuddin International AirportIndonesia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia2,165 km1,345 miNNGNanning Wuxu International AirportChina · AirAsia2,315 km1,438 miLBJKomodo AirportIndonesia · AirAsia2,371 km1,473 miCMBBandaranaike International Colombo AirportSri Lanka · FitsAir, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +22,467 km1,533 miMNLNinoy Aquino International AirportPhilippines · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Philippine Airlines +12,490 km1,547 miKMGKunming Changshui International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia2,490 km1,547 miMFMMacau International AirportMacao SAR China · AirAsia, Air Macau2,510 km1,560 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Malaysia Airlines, Cathay Pacific, AirAsia +12,543 km1,580 miSZXShenzhen Bao'an International AirportChina · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Shenzhen Airlines2,568 km1,596 miCEBMactan Cebu International AirportPhilippines · Philippines AirAsia, Firefly, AirAsia2,598 km1,614 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Spring Airlines, 9 Air, Malaysia Airlines +22,613 km1,624 miMAAChennai International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia2,629 km1,634 miCCUNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose International AirportIndia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia2,635 km1,637 miDACHazrat Shahjalal International AirportBangladesh · US-Bangla Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +22,642 km1,642 miKWLGuilin Liangjiang International AirportChina · AirAsia2,653 km1,648 miTRZTiruchirappalli International AirportIndia · AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia2,689 km1,671 miKWEGuiyang Longdongbao International AirportChina · 9 Air2,701 km1,678 miSWAJieyang Chaoshan International AirportChina · AirAsia2,808 km1,745 miTRVThiruvananthapuram International AirportIndia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia2,815 km1,749 miBLRKempegowda International Airport BengaluruIndia · IndiGo, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +12,884 km1,792 miCOKCochin International AirportIndia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia2,913 km1,810 miDILPresidente Nicolau Lobato International AirportTimor-Leste · Aero Dili, Batik Air Malaysia2,924 km1,817 miKHHKaohsiung International AirportTaiwan · AirAsia2,984 km1,854 miXMNXiamen Gaoqi International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Batik Air Malaysia2,996 km1,862 miHYDRajiv Gandhi International AirportIndia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia3,009 km1,870 miCKGChongqing Jiangbei International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, Hainan Airlines +13,044 km1,891 miJJNQuanzhou Jinjiang International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines3,047 km1,893 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia X +23,079 km1,913 miCSXChangsha Huanghua International AirportChina · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia X, AirAsia +13,081 km1,914 miMLEVelana International AirportMaldives · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia3,132 km1,946 miFOCFuzhou Changle International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines, Shanghai Airlines3,214 km1,997 miTPETaiwan Taoyuan International AirportTaiwan · Starlux Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia X +33,246 km2,017 miYIHYichang Sanxia AirportChina · Air Changan3,259 km2,025 miKHNNanchang Changbei International AirportChina · Jiangxi Air3,270 km2,032 miKTMTribhuvan International AirportNepal · Himalaya Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Nepal Airlines +13,273 km2,034 miWUHWuhan Tianhe International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines, AirAsia3,382 km2,101 miXIYXi'an Xianyang International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines, AirAsia X3,599 km2,236 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · Malaysia Airlines, Batik Air Malaysia3,624 km2,252 miHGHHangzhou Xiaoshan International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, AirAsia X3,637 km2,260 miNKGNanjing Lukou International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines, China Eastern Airlines3,690 km2,293 miCGOZhengzhou Xinzheng International AirportChina · Batik Air Malaysia3,751 km2,331 miWUXSunan Shuofang International AirportChina · Juneyao Air3,751 km2,331 miLHWLanzhou Zhongchuan International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines3,760 km2,336 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · Spring Airlines, Juneyao Air, Malaysia Airlines +33,797 km2,359 miAMDSardar Vallabh Patel International AirportIndia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia3,861 km2,399 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia X, Batik Air Malaysia +13,877 km2,409 miTYNTaiyuan Wusu International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines4,048 km2,515 miTNAJinan Yaoqiang International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines4,112 km2,555 miPERPerth International AirportAustralia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia4,140 km2,572 miTAOQingdao Jiaodong International AirportChina · Qingdao Airlines4,187 km2,602 miATQSri Guru Ram Das Ji International AirportIndia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia4,278 km2,658 miLHEAllama Iqbal International AirportPakistan · Batik Air Malaysia4,291 km2,666 miPKXBeijing Daxing International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia X4,349 km2,702 miPEKBeijing Capital International AirportChina · Air China4,414 km2,743 miKHIJinnah International AirportPakistan · AirAsia X, Batik Air Malaysia4,445 km2,762 miDLCDalian Zhoushuizi International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines4,500 km2,796 miFUKFukuoka AirportJapan · Malaysia Airlines4,546 km2,825 miPUSGimhae International AirportSouth Korea · Malaysia Airlines4,570 km2,840 miICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · Korean Air, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia X +24,613 km2,866 miKIXKansai International AirportJapan · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia X, AirAsia +14,943 km3,071 miALAAlmaty International AirportKazakhstan · AirAsia X5,131 km3,188 miCGQChangchun Longjia International AirportChina · Shanghai Airlines5,158 km3,205 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · Oman Air5,209 km3,237 miHNDTokyo Haneda International AirportJapan · All Nippon Airways5,351 km3,325 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · Uzbekistan Airways, Batik Air Malaysia5,369 km3,336 miNRTNarita International AirportJapan · All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines +25,409 km3,361 miMRUSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International AirportMauritius · Air Mauritius5,447 km3,385 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia5,537 km3,441 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Emirates, Batik Air Malaysia5,548 km3,447 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways5,589 km3,473 miADLAdelaide International AirportAustralia · Malaysia Airlines5,682 km3,531 miASBAshgabat International AirportTurkmenistan · Turkmenistan Airlines5,892 km3,661 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways, Malaysia Airlines5,909 km3,672 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Gulf Air6,034 km3,749 miMELMelbourne AirportAustralia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia X, Batik Air Malaysia +16,314 km3,923 miIKAImam Khomeini International AirportIran · Iran Airtour6,336 km3,937 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Riyadh Air, Saudia6,377 km3,962 miBNEBrisbane International AirportAustralia · Malaysia Airlines, Batik Air Malaysia6,440 km4,002 miSYDSydney Kingsford Smith International AirportAustralia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia X, Batik Air Malaysia6,585 km4,092 miBGWBaghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air BaseIraq · Iraqi Airways6,852 km4,258 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines6,985 km4,340 miMEDPrince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz AirportSaudi Arabia · Malaysia Airlines, Saudia7,060 km4,387 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Malaysia Airlines, Saudia, Batik Air Malaysia7,066 km4,391 miSAWIstanbul Sabiha Gökçen International AirportTürkiye · AirAsia X8,334 km5,179 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines8,389 km5,213 miAKLAuckland International AirportNew Zealand · Malaysia Airlines8,703 km5,408 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa9,998 km6,212 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · KLM10,237 km6,361 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Malaysia Airlines10,442 km6,488 miALGHouari Boumediene AirportAlgeria · Air Algérie10,580 km6,574 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · Malaysia Airlines, British Airways10,605 km6,590 miSeasonal7
HAKHaikou Meilan International AirportChina · Firefly2,134 km1,326 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Greater Bay Airlines2,543 km1,580 miCSXChangsha Huanghua International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines3,081 km1,914 miMLEVelana International AirportMaldives · Maldivian3,132 km1,946 miHFEHefei Xinqiao International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines3,622 km2,251 miCTSNew Chitose AirportJapan · AirAsia X5,953 km3,699 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · AirAsia X7,066 km4,391 miSeasonal charter5
KWLGuilin Liangjiang International AirportChina · Batik Air Malaysia2,653 km1,648 miKWEGuiyang Longdongbao International AirportChina · Batik Air Malaysia2,701 km1,678 miTXNHuangshan Tunxi International AirportChina · Batik Air Malaysia3,471 km2,157 miDSNOrdos Ejin Horo International AirportChina · Batik Air Malaysia4,168 km2,590 miDNHDunhuang Mogao International AirportChina · Batik Air Malaysia4,218 km2,621 miStraight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KUL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Kuala Lumpur International Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Airlines
85 airlines · destinations from KULHub airlines8
AKAirAsia72MHMalaysia Airlines72ODBatik Air Malaysia57D7AirAsia X199AEaglexpressMHMASkargoN7MY Jet Xpress Airlines3GWorld Cargo AirlinesPassenger76
FYFirefly12MUChina Eastern Airlines10MFXiamen Airlines7QZIndonesia AirAsia5IDBatik Air3HUHainan Airlines3JTLion Air3SVSaudia3FMShanghai Airlines3VJVietJet Air3AQ9 Air2CAAir China2KTAirAsia Cambodia2NHAll Nippon Airways2BABritish Airways2ETEthiopian Airlines2GFGulf Air26EIndiGo2HOJuneyao Air2KLKLM23USichuan Airlines29CSpring Airlines2FDThai AirAsia2M8TransNusa Air Services2VNVietnam Airlines2—Aero Dili1AHAir Algérie1G9Air Arabia19HAir Changan1AIAir India1NXAir Macau1MKAir Mauritius1BGBiman Bangladesh Airlines1KRCambodia Airways1CXCathay Pacific15JCebu Pacific1CIChina Airlines1QGCitilink1EKEmirates1EYEtihad Airways1BREVA Air18DFitsAir1GAGaruda Indonesia1—Greater Bay Airlinesseasonal · 1H9Himalaya Airlines1B9Iran Airtour1IAIraqi Airways1JLJapan Airlines1RYJiangxi Air1KEKorean Air1LHLufthansa1Q2Maldivianseasonal · 1MYMASwings1RANepal Airlines1WYOman Air1PRPhilippine Airlines1Z2Philippines AirAsia1QRQatar Airways1QWQingdao Airlines1RXRiyadh Air1BIRoyal Brunei Airlines1TZScoot1SCShandong Airlines1ZHShenzhen Airlines1SQSingapore Airlines1ZASky Angkor Airlines1ULSriLankan Airlines1JXStarlux Airlines19GSun PhuQuoc Airways1—Super Air Jet1VZThai Vietjet Air1TKTurkish Airlines1T5Turkmenistan Airlines1BSUS-Bangla Airlines1HYUzbekistan Airways1ZGZIPAIR Tokyo1Cargo1
THRaya Airways1Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from KUL. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,075 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
10 channelsA/DLUMPUR APP119.450
ATISLUMPUR ATIS FOR DEPARTURE126.450
CLDLUMPUR CLNC DEL126.000
GNDLUMPUR GND121.650
GNDLUMPUR GND122.275
TWRLUMPUR TWR 14L/32R118.800
TWRLUMPUR TWR 14R/32L118.500
TWRLUMPUR TWR RWY 15/33119.800
ATISLUMPUR ATIS FOR ARRIVALS128.050
DEPTLUMPUR DEPARTURE135.250