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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SIBU AIRPORT RESUMES NORMAL OPERATIONS

10 April 2017

We are pleased to inform that runway recovery works  at Sibu Airport is now complete and the airport had resumed normal operations at 0000 hours, 10 April 2017, with the first flight commencing operations 0928 hours this morning. 

The runway had earlier been damaged on 8 April 2017 when a  Malaysia Airlines aircraft,...
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