Atka Airport guide

Atka Airport serves the village of Atka, a small Unangan community on Atka Island in the central Aleutian Islands. The state-owned, public-use airport lies about 2 nautical miles north of the village. No road links Atka to the rest of Alaska, so the airstrip is the main way in and out for residents and supplies.

The field has a single asphalt runway, 16/34, measuring 4,500 by 100 feet. The runway is grooved and has medium-intensity edge lights. The airport is unattended, has no control tower and has no based aircraft. It is owned by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.

Grant Aviation flies the scheduled route to Unalaska and Dutch Harbor, which is the top domestic destination for Atka passengers. The service is subsidized under the federal Essential Air Service program. The FAA counted 623 passengers in 2015 and 156 aircraft operations. In the year from August 2019 to July 2020 the airport handled 350 passengers, all on Grant Aviation, with 170 of them travelling to Unalaska and Dutch Harbor. Its codes are AKB (IATA), PAAK (ICAO) and AKA (FAA).