Karel Sadsuitubun Airport guide

Karel Sadsuitubun Airport serves the Kai Islands in Maluku province, eastern Indonesia. It sits at Ibra on Kei Kecil, the main island of the group, and covers the towns of Langgur and Tual. The airport is named after Karel Satsuit Tubun, a police officer from Tual who became a National Hero of Indonesia.

Flights began on 24 February 2014 with a Trigana Air landing, and the official inauguration followed on 19 December 2014. The airport replaced Dumatubun Airport, which shares the site and now operates as an Indonesian Air Force base. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation runs the airport for the Indonesian government.

The single asphalt runway, 13/31, is 2,350 metres long. The terminal covers 3,694 square metres and is designed for about 50,000 passengers a year, although recent traffic has been roughly double that. Scheduled flights link Langgur with Ambon on Lion Air and Wings Air, and Smart Aviation flies to Larat and Timika. The airport handled about 187 tonnes of cargo in 2024.