Sidoarjo (airport)

On December 7, 1964, the air base of the National Army of Indonesia was put into operation at the site of the future airport, subsequently accepting commercial flights for service. The official opening of the building of the international passenger terminal took place on December 24, 1990, respectively, the port received international status by accepting regular routes to Amsterdam , Guangzhou , Kota Kinabalu , Kuching , London , Manila , Paris , Beijing , Perth , Seoul , Sydney , Xiamen , Tokyo , Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City .

In February 2014, it is expected to open a new passenger terminal building with a maximum throughput of six million people annually ^[3] .

The three-story building of the main passenger terminal was commissioned on November 10, 2006. It has a domestic airline area of ​​51,000 square meters, an international airline area of ​​20,200 square meters, and 11 telescopic ramps. The maximum throughput of the terminal is 8 million passengers annually.

The Juanda International Airport is located at an altitude of 3 meters above sea ​​level and operates one 10/28 runway with dimensions of 3000x55 meters with asphalt surface. At the airport there is a 15-story tower of a control tower and two two-story cargo terminals for local and international destinations with a maximum capacity of 120 thousand tons of various cargoes per year.

Below are the statistics for the Juanda International Airport from 1999 to 2013. In 2013, the route between the cities of Surabaya and Jakarta took eighth place in the world in the number of daily flights. On average, 123 flights per day were carried out in this direction ^{[4] [5] [6]} :

Passenger terminals

Former Destinations

• March 4, 2006. Lion Air's McDonnell Douglas MD-82 , flying 8987 Jakarta-Surabaya, crashed while landing at the destination airport ^[8] . After touching the runway, the crew switched on the reverse of the engines, while the left thrust of the left engine did not work ^[8] , as a result of which the aircraft turned to the right, and it rolled out of the runway to a distance of about 2100 meters ^[8] . None of the people on board were injured, the liner received significant damage and was decommissioned ^[8] .
• January 1, 2007. Adam Air's Boeing 737 (registration KI-574), which operated a regular flight 574 from Surabaya to Manado, crashed at sea in the region of West Sulawesi province. Killed all 102 people on board.

• January 21, 2007. The Adam Air Boeing 737-300 (PK-KKV registration) airline, performing regular flight 172 from Jakarta to Surabaya, received significant damage in the form of a broken fuselage when landing at the destination airport. Onboard there were 148 people, no one was killed. After this incident, a technical condition check was initiated for all Boeing 737 aircraft.
• August 13, 2010. Cathay Pacific Airbus A330-300 (registration B-HLL), regular flight 780 from Surabaya to Hong Kong . During the entire flight, the crew struggled with the problems encountered in the engines of the liner. When landing at the destination airport, the pilots were not able to fully control the engine thrust, as a result of which the airliner made a landing at high speed and received significant damage. The investigation established the cause of the incident, which consisted in refueling the aircraft with poor-quality fuel at the Surabaya airport ^[9] .

• PT. Angkasa Pura I: Juanda Airport
• Official website of Juanda International Airport
• Information on WARR Airport from World Aero Data.
• Inc airport incident history on Aviation Safety Network