Kuala Lumpur International Airport

For other uses, see Kuala Lumpur International Airport (disambiguation).

Kuala Lumpur International Airport Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur
Aerial view of a part of Kuala Lumpur International Airport
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 (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 (69 ft)
Coordinates	02°44′36″N 101°41′53″E
Website	malaysiaairports.com.my
Maps
KUL/WMKK Location in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia KUL/WMKK KUL/WMKK (Malaysia) KUL/WMKK KUL/WMKK (Southeast Asia) KUL/WMKK KUL/WMKK (Asia)
Interactive map of Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14L/32R 4,019 13,186 Asphalt 14R/32L 4,000 13,123 Asphalt 15/33 3,960 12,992 Asphalt
Statistics (2025)
Passengers 63,121,653 (9.68%) Domestic passengers 17,750,058 (14.51%) International passengers 45,371,595 (7.79%) Aircraft movements 408,154 ( 10.58%) Cargo (tonnes) 638,910 ( 24.42%)
Sources: MAHB CAPA

Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA; IATA: KUL, ICAO: WMKK) is the main international airport of Malaysia. Despite its name, it is not located within Kuala Lumpur, but rather in the Sepang District of Selangor, approximately 45 km (28 mi) south of the city, serving its greater conurbation. KLIA is the largest and busiest airport in the country and a regional megahub for low-cost carriers in Asia-Pacific. In 2025, it handled 63.3 million passengers, ranking as the 20th-busiest airport by total passenger traffic.

AirAsia is the dominant air carrier in Malaysia, based in KLIA Terminal 2 and serving 14,583 low-cost connections, with a 35% share of flights, followed by Malaysia Airlines. 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, and the operating base for AirAsia and AirAsia X.

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