Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport
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Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport Aeroporto Internacional Presidente Nicolau Lobato | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | East Timor Civil Aviation Division | ||||||||||
| Location | Dili, East Timor | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 25 ft / 8 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 08°32′47.59″S 125°31′28.99″E / 8.5465528°S 125.5247194°E | ||||||||||
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  DIL/WPDL Location of airport in Dili, East Timor  DIL/WPDL DIL/WPDL (East Timor)  DIL/WPDL DIL/WPDL (Southeast Asia)  DIL/WPDL DIL/WPDL (Asia) | |||||||||||
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Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport (IATA: DIL, ICAO: WPDL), formerly known as Comoro International Airport, is an international airport located in Dili, the capital of East Timor. The airport was renamed after Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, an East Timorese politician and national hero.
History
Under Portuguese rule, Baucau Airport, which has a much longer runway, was used for international flights, but during Indonesian rule after 1975, it was placed under the control of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, and Dili airport, known as Comoro International Airport, became the territory's principal civilian airport. The airport was placed under the control of the Australian Defence Force during Operation Astute in May 2006.
Dili's airport runway has generally been unable to accommodate aircraft larger than the Airbus A319, Boeing 737-400, Boeing 737-900ER, C-130 Hercules, or Ilyushin Il-96, but in January 2008, the Portuguese charter airline EuroAtlantic Airways operated a direct flight from Lisbon using a Boeing 767, carrying 140 members of the Guarda Nacional Republicana.[1]
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Airnorth | Darwin |
| Air Timor operated by Druk Air | Singapore[2] |
| Air Timor operated by TransNusa | Kupang |
| Citilink | Denpasar/Bali |
| NAM Air | Denpasar/Bali[3] |
| Sriwijaya Air | Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta, Denpasar/Bali, Surabaya |
| TransNusa | Kupang |
See also
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References
- ^ euroAtlantic lands at Dili airport transporting GNR Archived 20 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Liu, Jim. "Druk Air begins East Timor service with Air Timor in NW19". Routesonline. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- ^ https://m.bisnis.com/amp/read/20151220/98/503517/nam-air-buka-rute-baru-denpasar-dili
External links
- Template:WAD
- azworldairports.com
- Map from Multimap
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