LNG Badak Airport guide

LNG Badak Airport is a private airfield in Bontang, a coastal industrial city in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. It sits about 1 km from the town centre, beside the Makassar Strait, and serves the Bontang LNG plant.

The airport is managed by Badak LNG, a subsidiary of the state energy company Pertamina. Badak LNG was set up in 1974 to run the Bontang liquefaction complex, which exports most of its gas to Japan. The airfield is not open to scheduled public airline service. Its aircraft support the plant and its partner companies.

Its single asphalt runway, 04/22, is about 1,000 m long. Based aircraft have included a de Havilland Canada Dash 7 owned by Pupuk Kalimantan Timur and an ATR 42-500 chartered by Badak LNG, both flown by Indonesia Air Transport. The airport carries the IATA code BXT and the ICAO code WALC. It is the only airport in the city of Bontang.