Kuala Lumpur International Airport

Kuala Lumpur International Airport Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur
IATA: KUL ICAO: WMKK WMO: 48650
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Khazanah Nasional
Operator	Malaysia Airports
Serves	Greater Kuala Lumpur
Location	Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia
Opened	27 June 1998; 26 years ago (1998-06-27)
Hub for	Batik Air Malaysia Malaysia Airlines MASkargo Raya Airways World Cargo Airlines
Operating base for	AirAsia AirAsia X
Time zone	MST (UTC+08:00)
Elevation AMSL	21 m / 70 ft
Coordinates	02°44′36″N 101°41′53″E / 2.74333°N 101.69806°E / 2.74333; 101.69806
Website	airports.malaysiaairports.com.my
Maps
KUL/WMKK Location in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia Show map of Selangor KUL/WMKK KUL/WMKK (Malaysia) Show map of Malaysia KUL/WMKK KUL/WMKK (Southeast Asia) Show map of Southeast Asia KUL/WMKK KUL/WMKK (Asia) Show map of Asia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14L/32R 4,124 13,530 Asphalt 14R/32L 4,000 13,123 Asphalt 15/33 3,960 12,992 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers 47,224,000 (85.9%) Domestic passengers 14,664,000 (31.8%) International passengers 32,560,000 (128.1%) Aircraft movements 319,026 ( 60.9%) Cargo (tonnes) 660,040 ( 30.7%)(2022)
Sources: MAHB[1]

Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) (IATA: KUL, ICAO: WMKK) is the main international airport serving Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. It is located in the Sepang District of Selangor, approximately 45 km (28 mi) south of downtown Kuala Lumpur and serves the city's greater conurbation.

Kuala Lumpur International Airport is the largest and busiest airport in Malaysia and is recognised as a mega hub. In 2023, it handled 47.2 million passengers, 980,040 tonnes of cargo and 819,026 aircraft movements, ranking as the 35th-busiest airport by total passenger traffic.

In 2024, KLIA is the ranked first by OAG (by ratio of connection flight frequency to destinations served) in the Global Low-Cost Megahubs index by with 11,188 possible low-cost connections across over 137 destinations.^[2]

OAG also ranked KLIA is the world's second most connected airport (by ratio of connection flight frequency to destinations served) in 2024, with 33,411 possible connections, according to the OAG Megahub Index, second to London-Heathrow and followed by Tokyo–Haneda, Amsterdam and Seoul–Incheon in the top five.^[3]

AirAsia is the dominant air carrier in Malaysia, based in KLIA and serving 14,583 low-cost connections, with a 34% share of flights, followed by Malaysia Airlines MAS.^[4][5]

The airport is operated by Malaysia Airports (MAHB) Sepang Sdn Bhd and is the major hub of Malaysia Airlines, MASkargo, Batik Air Malaysia, UPS Airlines and World Cargo Airlines, AirAsia and AirAsia X.