Sultan Mahmud Airport

Sultan Mahmud Airport Lapangan Terbang Sultan Mahmud
IATA: TGG ICAO: WMKN
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Government of Malaysia
Operator	Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad
Serves	Kuala Terengganu
Location	Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
Time zone	MST (UTC+08:00)
Elevation AMSL	21 ft / 6 m
Coordinates	05°22′53″N 103°06′17″E / 5.38139°N 103.10472°E / 5.38139; 103.10472
Maps
Terengganu state in Malaysia
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 04/22 3,480 11,417 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passenger 894,737 ( 5.2%) Airfreight (tonnes) 363 ( 47.1%) Aircraft movements 10,637 ( 7.4%)
Source: official website[1] AIP Malaysia[2]

Sultan Mahmud Airport (IATA: TGG, ICAO: WMKN) is an airport in Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia. The airport serves Kuala Terengganu which is located 8 km (5.0 mi) away.^[2] In 2017, it handled 943,660 passengers with 11,485 aircraft movements.^[1] It was named after the 16th Sultan of Terengganu, Almarhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, who ruled from 1979 to 1998.

The terminal was designed to handle 2 million passengers every year. Malaysia Airlines has agreed with Tabung Haji that it will also bring passengers to Mecca via Jeddah and Medina in Saudi Arabia.