Christmas Island International Airport

ICAO YPXM10.4504°S 105.6911°E279 m / 916 ftMedium airport

Christmas Island International Airport (IATA: XCH, ICAO: YPXM) is a medium airport in Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island. It has one runway, 2,103 m (6,900 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 23 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

18/36175° / 355° · LIT · SLOPE 1.5%

LENGTH2,103 m6,900 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

32K

35K

36K

34K

21K

20K

19K

18K

13K

23K

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Routes

2 destinations · 2 countries

Year-round2

CCKCocos (Keeling) Islands AirportCocos (Keeling) Islands · QantasLink985 km612 mi PERPerth International AirportAustralia · QantasLink2,613 km1,624 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from XCH. From the Wikipedia article “Christmas Island Airport” (revision of 21 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers23K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,392of 3,974 · #740 Asia Longest runway2,103 m6,900 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,571of 29,823 · #1,038 Asia Elevation279 m916 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=19,161of 43,341 · #1,154 Asia Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia

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

CTAFCTAF122.800

FSSRDO347.000