KTA

Karratha Airport

ICAO YPKA20.7122°S 116.7730°E9 m / 29 ftMedium airport
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Karratha Airport (IATA: KTA, ICAO: YPKA) is a medium airport in Karratha, Western Australia, Australia. It has one runway, 2,280 m (7,480 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by City of Karratha. In 2022 it handled 494 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
08/26083° / 263° · LIT
LENGTH2,280 m7,480 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
740K
818K
771K
710K
608K
495K
439K
441K
468K
273K
423K
494K
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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsNexus Airlines (Australia) 3QantasLink 1Qantas Airways 1Virgin Australia Regional Airlines 1Virgin Australia 1Alliance Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KTA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Karratha Airport” (revision of 5 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers494K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,117of 3,974 · #31 Oceania · #18 AULongest runway2,280 m7,480 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,142of 29,823 · #72 Oceania · #42 AUElevation9 m29 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,584of 43,341 · =1,927 Oceania · =1,155 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

2 channels
CTAFCTAF127.350
FSSMELBOURNE CNTR122.400