- IATA
- DPS
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- WADD
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1931
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 23.8M
- in 2018
History & name
Denpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport opened in 1931 and honours I Gusti Ngurah Rai, an Indonesian national hero (1917–1946). Operated by InJourney Airports, it lies 12 km from Denpasar with one runway of 2,984 m, and handled 23.8 million passengers in 2018.
Named afterI Gusti Ngurah Rai — Indonesian national hero (1917–1946)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Denpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport
- Serves
- Bali, Indonesia
- City centre
- 12 km from Denpasar
- Opened
- 1931
- Operator
- InJourney Airports
- Passengers
- 23.8 million in 2018
- Runways
- 1 runway, 2,984 m
- Elevation
- 14 ft (4 m)
- Website
- angkasapura1.co.id ↗
Where it sits
8.7°S, 115.2°E puts DPS in the southern hemisphere, 973 km from the equator and 9,035 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 551st most northerly, which makes it the 111th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 8.7°N, 64.8°W — 314 km from Maiquetía Simón Bolívar (CCS) in Venezuela, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Lombok (LOP), 122 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from DPS
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Sydney, at 4,622 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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