WAAA
Hasanuddin International Airport
VFR
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Name
Hasanuddin International Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
WAAA / UPG / WAAA
- Type
- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
3:19 pm (WITA)
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Municipality
Ujung Pandang
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Coordinates
5° 3′ 41″ S 119° 33′ 14″ E
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Elevation
44 ft (13 m MSL)
About Hasanuddin International Airport
Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport (IATA: UPG, ICAO: WAAA) is an international airport serving Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The airport is located on the border of Makassar and Maros, a suburb in South Sulawesi, approximately 15 minutes 20 km (12 mi) from Makassar city center via freeway/tollway or 20 minutes 23 km (14 mi) via highway. The current terminal was opened on 20 August 2008. The airport is the main gateway for flights to the eastern part of Indonesia, and named after Sultan Hasanuddin (1631–1670), a Sultan of Gowa, who fought against the Dutch East India Company in the 1660s.
Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport acts as a hub for the other nearby regional airports in a hub-and-spokes air transport model. The Sumarorong Airport (Bandar Udara Sumarorong in Indonesian language) in Sumarorong is the nearest airport an hour's flight away which previusly required 8 hours of mountainous overland travel.