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Penang is directly accessible from 25 major local and regional airports, and over 100 local and international destinations via the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2).

Located in Bayan Lepas, the Penang International Airport is

  • 16 km or a 30 minutes’ drive from George Town

  • 30km or a 45 minutes’ from Seberang Perai

  • 32 km or a 1 hour’s drive from Batu Feringghi

  • 326 kilometres or a 50 minutes’ flight from KLIA

  • 603 km or a 1 hour 30 minutes’ flight from Singapore Changi

 

Direct air links between Penang and major Asian Cities:

FREQUENCY OF INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS


No Sector Airline Total/Week
1 Don Mueang (Bangkok) AirAsia 14 21
2 Suvarnabhumi (Bangkok) Thai Smile 7
3 Singapore Air Asia 27 67
Jetstar 8
Tiger Airways 18
Singapore Airlines 14
4 Medan Air Asia 23 51
Lion Air 21
Citilink 7
5 Jakarta Air Asia 3 3
6 Surabaya Air Asia 3 3
7 Banda Aceh Firefly 4 11
Malindo 7
8 Phuket Firefly 4 4
9 Taipei China Airlines 9 13
STARLUX Airlines 4
10 Ho Chi Minh City Air Asia 5 12
Vietnam Airlines 7
11 Despensar Air Asia 2 2
    Total 191

 



FREQUENCY OF DOMESTIC FLIGHTS

No Sector Airline Total/Week
1 KLIA Air Asia
52
 117
MAS 42
Malindo/Batik Air 9
MyAirline 14
2 Subang Firefly
63
 77
Malindo/Batik Air 14
3 Langkawi Air Asia
21
 31
Firefly 10
4 Johor Bahru Air Asia
35
 56
Firefly 21
5 Kota Kinabalu Air Asia
14
 28
Firefly 14
6 Kota Bharu Air Asia
7
 7
7 Kuching Air Asia
14
 28
Firefly 14
8 Melaka Batik Air 7
 7
    Total 351