{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Airport","name":"Babo Airport","iataCode":"BXB","icaoCode":"WASO","city":"Babo","country":"ID","airportType":"medium_airport","cargoCapable":false,"cargoRank":null,"confidenceLevel":null,"coordinates":{"latitude":-2.53224,"longitude":133.438995},"elevationMeters":3,"runwayLengthMeters":null,"description":"Oil and gas activity around the BP Tangguh LNG project defines what Babo Airport is for, not cargo throughput. The field on Bintuni Bay in West Papua began as a Japanese wartime airstrip and was returned to service for the LNG development, a rehabilitation that in 2002 required clearing roughly 360 live wartime bombs from the site. Its runway was extended from 950 to about 1,300 metres in 2014, which still caps traffic at ATR 72 and Twin Otter class aircraft. BXB carries subsidised Perintis serv","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/babo-airport-bxb","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/airports/en/babo-airport-bxb","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Babo Airport · (IATA: BXB) · Babo, ID · 3 m"}