Bario Airport guide

Bario Airport (ICAO: WBGZ) serves Bario, a village of Kelabit longhouses in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. The village sits at about 1,000 m elevation near the Kalimantan border, roughly 178 km east of Miri. The only road link is a rough logging track that takes 10 to 14 hours by four-wheel drive, so most visitors and supplies arrive by air.

The Borneo Evangelical Mission built the first airstrip in 1953. The Sarawak government took it over in 1961, and a concrete strip was completed in 1996. The single bitumen runway, 11/29, is 670 m long, which limits the airport to short take-off and landing aircraft such as the 19-seat DHC-6 Twin Otter. Work is under way to lengthen the runway to 930 m.

Scheduled flights link Bario with Miri, Marudi, Ba'kelalan, Long Banga, Long Lellang and Long Seridan. There are no international services. In 2015 the airport handled 22,084 passengers and 79 tonnes of freight.