Back Aeroport Internacional de Chileka Catalan Chileka International Airport CEB Flughafen Chileka German Aeropuerto Internacional Chileka Spanish فرودگاه بینالمللی چیلکا Persian Chilekan kansainvälinen lentoasema Finnish Aéroport international de Chileka French Zračna luka Chileka Croatian Bandar Udara Internasional Chileka ID チレカ国際空港 Japanese
Chileka International Airport | |||||||||||||||
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 The passenger terminal at Chileka | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Malawi | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Civil Aviation Authority of Malawi | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Blantyre, Malawi | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Nyambala, Chileka | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,555 ft / 779 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 15°40′52″S 34°58′18″E / 15.68111°S 34.97167°E | ||||||||||||||
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  BLZ Location within Malawi | |||||||||||||||
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Chileka International Airport (IATA: BLZ, ICAO: FWCL) is an international airport in Malawi. It is located approximately 13 km (7 nmi; 8 mi), by road, northwest of Blantyre, the second largest city in the Republic of Malawi and the country's commercial and financial capital.[3] Chileka is Malawi's second international airport, the other being Kamuzu International Airport, in Lilongwe, the nation's capital city.[4]
- ^ Airport information for FWCL[usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
- ^ Airport information for BLZ at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ "Distance Between Blantyre And Chileka International Airport" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ Duncan Mlanjira (2 January 2020). "Chileka International Airport Now Operational For Big Aircrafts [sic]". Nyasa Times. Blantyre. Retrieved 7 May 2020.