- IATA
- MLE
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- VRMM
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1966
- per Wikidata
- Routes here
- 3
- in the catalogue
History & name
Velana International Airport, which takes its name from Velana, opened in 1966 and sits 3 km from Male in the Maldives. It has one runway of 3,400 m and an elevation of just 6 ft.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Velana International Airport
- Serves
- Malé, Maldives
- City centre
- 3 km from Male
- Opened
- 1966
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,400 m
- Elevation
- 6 ft (2 m)
- Website
- airports.com.mv ↗
Where it sits
4.2°N, 73.5°E puts MLE in the northern hemisphere, 466 km from the equator and 9,541 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 505th most northerly, which makes it the 157th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 4.2°S, 106.5°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Seymour Galapagos Ecological (GPS) in Ecuador, still 1,847 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Gan (GAN), 545 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from MLE
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 8,539 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.
What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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