About Sandakan Airport

Sandakan Airport is located 13km from Sandakan town. New terminal building and its related facilities just been upgraded in November 2014. It serves Malaysia Airlines, MasWings and Air Asia and has the capacity to handle 1.5 million passengers annually.

The airport is also a major tourism gateway to numerous eco destinations within Sabah. Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre is amongst the tourist's main attraction in Sabah. Other great attractions nearby Sandakan Airport are Gomantong Caves, Kinabatangan River, Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Santuary, Turtle island and the very long canopy walk at the Rainforest Directory Centre.

Latest News

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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