# Christmas Island International Airport (XCH / YPXM)

**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.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/ypxm

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: XCH / YPXM
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island
- Elevation: 279 m / 916 ft
- Coordinates: -10.4504, 105.6911
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 2,103 m / 6,900 ft
- Passengers: 22,682 (2022)
- Time zone: UTC+7 · Indian/Christmas
- Website: http://www.christmasislandairport.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Island_Airport (23 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1035011
- Weather station: YPXM · WMO 96995
- Ident: YPXM

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 18/36 | 2,103 m / 6,900 ft | 45 m / 148 ft | Asphalt | 175° / 355° | yes |

- 18/36 slopes 1.5%: threshold 36 at 247 m / 810 ft, threshold 18 at 279 m / 916 ft.

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2011 | 31,886 | Wikidata |
| 2012 | 35,059 | Wikidata |
| 2013 | 36,005 | Wikidata |
| 2014 | 34,024 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 20,638 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 19,786 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 18,866 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 19,256 | Wikidata |
| 2019 | 18,469 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 13,405 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 22,772 | Wikidata |
| 2022 | 22,682 | Wikidata |

## Routes

2 destinations in 2 countries. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (2)

- [CCK](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ypcc.md) Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport · Cocos (Keeling) Islands · 985 km / 612 mi · QantasLink
- [PER](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ypph.md) Perth International Airport · Australia · 2,613 km / 1,624 mi · QantasLink

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from XCH, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- QF [QantasLink](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/qantaslink) · 2

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 23K (2022) | #2,392 of 3,974 | #738 in Asia |  |
| Longest runway | 2,103 m / 6,900 ft | =3,571 of 29,858 | #1,032 in Asia |  |
| Elevation | 279 m / 916 ft | =19,179 of 43,403 | #1,155 in Asia |  |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia |  |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CTAF | CTAF | 122.800 |
| FSS | RDO | 347.000 |

## Nearby airports

No open airport within 150 km / 93 mi.

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Christmas Island Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Island_Airport&oldid=1370449221), revision of 21 Aug 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/ypxm/data