Kerteh Airport Explained

Kerteh Airport
Nativename:Lapangan Terbang Kerteh
Iata:KTE
Icao:WMKE
Type:Private
Owner:Petronas
Operator:Senai Airport Terminal Services Sdn Bhd
City-Served:Kemaman, Terengganu, Malaysia
Location:Kerteh, Terengganu, Malaysia
Timezone:MST
Elevation-F:18
Coordinates:4.5375°N 103.4267°W
Pushpin Map:Malaysia Terengganu#Malaysia West#Malaysia
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Kemaman, Terengganu
Pushpin Label: KTE /WMKE
Metric-Rwy:y
R1-Number:16/34
R1-Length-M:1,362
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Footnotes:Source: AIP Malaysia[1]

Kerteh Airport is an airport in Kerteh, Kemaman District, Terengganu in Malaysia.

The airport is owned by Petroleum Nasional Berhad or Petronas via its East Coast Regional Office (ECRO), and was built to serve the purpose of airlifting its employees and ExxonMobil employees to their various oil platforms located 100–200 km offshore South China Sea. The airport is operated by Senai Airport Terminal Services Sdn Bhd which is the operator of Senai International Airport since 2019.[2] The airport although small, has a single 1362m (4,469feet) long runway which can accommodate a Boeing 737-400 aircraft.

Most of the airport's operations are centred on the helicopters operated by Malaysia Helicopter Services (MHS) used to transport workers to the platforms. The airport also used to have a weekday fixed-wing chartered service using a Beechcraft 1900 Airliner turboprop aircraft, also operated by MHS, which shuttles Petronas and ExxonMobil employees from Kerteh to the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (SZB) in Subang near Kuala Lumpur.

In 1990, the Terengganu state government discussed with Petronas on expanding the airport to cater to bigger aircraft.[3]

References

  1. http://aip.dca.gov.my/aip%20pdf/AD/AD2/WMKE/WMKE-Kerteh%20Airport.pdf WMKE - KERTEH
  2. Web site: Senai International Airport now manages Kertih Airport operations. 2 January 2019.
  3. News: Proposal for direct flight between Kuala Trengganu and Singapore . 29 March 2024 . The Straits Times . 31 July 1990.