# Pago Pago International Airport (PPG)

> Pago Pago, AS · IATA: PPG · ICAO: NSTU · Medium Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `PPG` |
| ICAO | `NSTU` |
| City | Pago Pago |
| Country | AS |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 10 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | -14.33100, -170.71001 |

## Description

For a stretch between 1990 and 2006, Pago Pago saw daily Boeing 747 freighters from Kalitta Air, Evergreen and Polar Air Cargo linking American Samoa with the US mainland and the Asia-Pacific. Those mainline freighter days have passed; today scheduled cargo capacity rests mainly on a weekly Asia Pacific Airlines freighter from Honolulu, backed by belly space on Hawaiian Airlines passenger flights. Run by American Samoa's Port Administration on Tutuila island, the airport keeps a runway of roughly 3,000 metres able to take wide-body aircraft. The territory's tuna-canning sector, led by StarKist, shapes much of the perishable freight that moves through. As a US territory it falls under US customs rules, with Honolulu (HNL) acting as the upstream consolidation point for larger intercontinental volumes.

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