MKY

Mackay Airport

ICAO YBMK21.1708°S 149.1826°E6 m / 19 ftMedium airport
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Mackay Airport (IATA: MKY, ICAO: YBMK) is a medium airport in Mackay, Queensland, Australia. It has one runway, 1,981 m (6,499 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 825 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Mackay AirportOld Mackay Airport
14/32148° / 328° · LIT
LENGTH1,981 m6,499 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
1.1M
1.1M
1.1M
970K
869K
768K
763K
808K
841K
451K
647K
825K
111213141516171819202122

Routes

5 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsQantasLink 4Toll Group 2Qantas Airways 1Virgin Australia 1Jetstar Airways 1Pel-Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MKY. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Mackay Airport” (revision of 13 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers825K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#905of 3,974 · #26 Oceania · #15 AULongest runway1,981 m6,499 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,118of 29,823 · =137 Oceania · =85 AUElevation6 m19 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,473of 43,341 · =2,031 Oceania · =1,192 AURunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =526 Oceania · =468 AU
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
ATISATIS112.700
CTAFCTAF124.500
FSSBRISBANE CNTR135.500
TWRTWR124.500