AA Bere Tallo (Haliwen) Airport guide

A. A. Bere Tallo Airport (ICAO: WATA) serves Atambua, the capital of Belu Regency on the island of Timor in East Nusa Tenggara. It sits about 4 km from the town centre and close to the border with Timor-Leste. The airport was known as Haliwen Airport until it was renamed in September 2013 after Alfonsius Andreas Bere Tallo, the first regent of Belu.

The Japanese built the site as Haliwen Airfield in 1942, with an 800 m grass runway. The runway was extended to 900 m in 1972 and the field opened for civil use in 1976. Scheduled commercial flights began in 2010. The single asphalt runway, 08/26, is 1,600 m long and 30 m wide, and the Ministry of Transportation has proposed lengthening it to 2,000 m and later 2,500 m.

Wings Air is the only airline with scheduled flights, on one route to El Tari Airport in Kupang. The airport handled 22,563 passengers and 525 aircraft movements in 2024, down from 32,446 passengers in 2023 and a peak of 102,786 in 2018.