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Port Moresby International Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | PNG National Airports Corporation Ltd | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | PNG National Airports Corporation Ltd | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Port Moresby | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Saraga, Port Moresby | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 124 ft / 38 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 09°26′36″S147°13′12″E / 9.44333°S 147.22000°E /-9.44333; 147.22000 | ||||||||||||||
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Port Moresby International Airport (IATA:POM,ICAO:AYPY), also known asJacksons International Airport, is aninternational airport located eight kilometres (four nautical miles) outsidePort Moresby inPapua New Guinea. It is the largest and busiestairport in Papua New Guinea, with an estimated 1.4 million passengers using the airport in 2015,[1] and is the mainhub forAir Niugini, thenational airline of Papua New Guinea, as well as the main hub forPNG Air. It replaced theoriginal Port Moresby airport, in what is now the suburb ofWaigani, whose airstrip remained until the 1990s but no trace of which remains, having been built over.
Jacksons International Airport consists of two terminals: the Domestic Terminal, housing Air Niugini and PNG Air, and the International Terminal, servicing all other international airlines including Air Niugini's and PNG Air's international routes. The International Terminal features four aircraft parking bays, four[all?] of which are equipped with aerobridges. The two terminals are linked by a covered walkway.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Garuda Indonesia | Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta |
| Solomon Airlines | Honiara[6] |
Air Niugini has its head office in the Air Niugini House, near the airport property.[7]
This article incorporatespublic domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency