PEN
Penang International Airport
Penang International Airport (IATA: PEN, ICAO: WMKP) is a large airport in Penang, Malaysia. It opened on 29 Sep 1935. It has one runway, 3,352 m (10,997 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Malaysia Airports. In 2021 it handled 541 thousand passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1935–193529 SEP 1935
OpenedPenang International Airport opens.
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap04/22042° / 222° · LIT
LENGTH3,352 m10,997 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2010–20214.1M
4.6M
4.8M
5.5M
6.0M
6.3M
6.7M
7.2M
7.8M
8.3M
1.8M
541K
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Routes
33 destinations · 12 countriesYear-round28
LGKLangkawi International AirportMalaysia · Firefly, AirAsia130 km81 miKNOKualanamu International AirportIndonesia · Lion Air, Batik Air Malaysia, Indonesia AirAsia241 km150 miKBRSultan Ismail Petra AirportMalaysia · Firefly243 km151 miSZBSultan Abdul Aziz Shah International AirportMalaysia · Firefly, Batik Air Malaysia279 km173 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Firefly, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia +1325 km202 miHKTPhuket International AirportThailand · Firefly, AirAsia381 km237 miBTJSultan Iskandar Muda International AirportIndonesia · Firefly538 km334 miJHBSenai International AirportMalaysia · AirAsia554 km344 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Scoot, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia602 km374 miBTHHang Nadim International AirportIndonesia · Batik Air Malaysia630 km391 miSGNTan Son Nhat International AirportVietnam · AirAsia932 km579 miDMKDon Mueang International AirportThailand · Thai AirAsia, Thai Lion Air959 km596 miKCHKuching International AirportMalaysia · AirAsia1,196 km743 miCGKSoekarno-Hatta International AirportIndonesia · TransNusa Air Services, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia +11,454 km903 miBKIKota Kinabalu International AirportMalaysia · AirAsia1,747 km1,086 miHAKHaikou Meilan International AirportChina · Hainan Airlines1,965 km1,221 miSUBJuanda International AirportIndonesia · Indonesia AirAsia1,978 km1,229 miMAAChennai International AirportIndia · IndiGo2,365 km1,470 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · HK Express, Cathay Pacific2,394 km1,488 miSZXShenzhen Bao'an International AirportChina · Shenzhen Airlines2,414 km1,500 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Spring Airlines2,449 km1,522 miCKGChongqing Jiangbei International AirportChina · Chongqing Airlines2,796 km1,737 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines2,816 km1,750 miXMNXiamen Gaoqi International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines2,866 km1,781 miTPETaiwan Taoyuan International AirportTaiwan · China Airlines3,135 km1,948 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · Spring Airlines, Juneyao Air, Shanghai Airlines3,648 km2,267 miTAOQingdao Jiaodong International AirportChina · Qingdao Airlines4,002 km2,487 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai5,267 km3,273 miSeasonal2
RDNLTS Pulau Redang AirportMalaysia · Berjaya Air306 km190 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways5,632 km3,500 miCharter4
HAKHaikou Meilan International AirportChina · 9 Air1,965 km1,221 miKMGKunming Changshui International AirportChina · Batik Air Malaysia2,221 km1,380 miDYGZhangjiajie Hehua International AirportChina · Batik Air Malaysia2,855 km1,774 miKIXKansai International AirportJapan · Batik Air Malaysia4,838 km3,006 miMost destinationsAirAsia 9Batik Air Malaysia 9Firefly 6Indonesia AirAsia 3Spring Airlines 2Lion Air 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PEN. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Penang International Airport” (revision of 21 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
3 channelsATISATIS126.400
GNDPENANG GROUND121.600
TWRPENANG TOWER121.100