About Sultan Ismail Petra Airport

Formerly an RAF military base, Sultan Ismail Petra Airport was relocated to a new terminal in 2002. It serves the city of Kota Bharu and the state of Kelantan.

It has three aerobridges and serves Malaysia Airlines, Firefly, dan Air Asia. In 2011, the runway was lengthened from 1,981m to 2,400m to accommodate the Airbus A330 and Boeing 737-800.

It also houses the Asia Pacific Flight Training flying school.

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klia2 Scheduled Maintenance Programe

10 January 2015

Malaysia Airports had undertaken to perform maintenance and resurfacing works to address undulation on its Runway 3 in accordance to its airport operations Standards Operating Procedures. This is in line with our safety priorities for flight operations at klia2.  As such, Runway 3 is currently closed for operations...
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