LGK

Langkawi International Airport

ICAO WMKL6.3297°N 99.7287°E9 m / 29 ftLarge airport
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Langkawi International Airport (IATA: LGK, ICAO: WMKL) is a large airport in Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia. It has one runway, 3,810 m (12,500 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Malaysia Airports. In 2021 it handled 762 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Langkawi
03/21034° / 214° · LIT
LENGTH3,810 m12,500 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2021
1.4M
1.5M
1.6M
1.9M
2.2M
2.3M
2.7M
2.8M
2.7M
2.9M
967K
762K
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Routes

7 destinations · 4 countries
Most destinationsAirAsia 4Firefly 2Scoot 1IndiGo 1flydubai 1Berjaya Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LGK. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Langkawi International Airport” (revision of 8 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers762K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#932of 3,974 · #294 Asia · #4 MYLongest runway3,810 m12,500 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=197of 29,823 · =46 Asia · #2 MYElevation9 m29 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,584of 43,341 · =2,810 Asia · #66 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
APPAPP119.400
ATISATIS128.200
GNDGND121.800
TWRTWR118.500