Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport

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Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport Lapangan Terbang Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah
IATA: SZB - ICAO: WMSA
Summary <tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Airport type</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">civil</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Serves</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia</td></tr>
Elevation AMSL		90 ft (27 m)
Coordinates		3°7′50″N, 101°32′58″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
15/33	12,401	3,780	asphalt

Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (IATA: SZB, ICAO: WMSA) is an airport located in Subang, Malaysia. Currently the airport mainly serves general aviation and some turboprop domestic flights. Although there were plans to turn it into a low-cost carrier hub, it was opposed by Subang Jaya residents.

Until the 1998 opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport served as Kuala Lumpur's primary airport.

The airport was officially opened to traffic on August 30th, 1965, and had the longest runway (3.7km long, 45m wide - runway 15 - 33) in Southeast Asia then. By the 1990s it had three terminals - Terminal 1 for international flights, Terminal 2 for Singapore - KL shuttle flights by Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines, and Terminal 3 for domestic flights. Towards the end of its service the airport suffered at least two major fires that forced traffic to be diverted to other airports. By the end of 1997 Subang Airport handled 15.8 million passengers.

By July 2002 AirAsia began flying from KLIA. In 2004, AirAsia considered utilising this airport as one of its primary hubs in Malaysia. However the plan was rejected and the Malaysian government now plans to turn the airport into an international conference centre.

In current years, the airport serves as Berjaya Air's main gateway to several Malaysian holiday destinations, for example Pulau Tioman. Several companies that offer chartered flights and helicopter services operate at the airport. A number of flying clubs are also located at Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah airport, the most famous of these being ESB (Eurodynamic Sdn Bhd) Flying Club http://www.esbfc.com/