Kuala Lumpur International Airport

Kuala Lumpur International is Malaysia's principal gateway and one of Southeast Asia's four mega-hubs, handling 47.1M passengers (2024) across 148 destinations on 80 airlines. Built on a 25,000-acre (10,117 ha) site in Sepang — one of the largest airport footprints in the world — KUL was designed by Kisho Kurokawa as an "airport in the forest, forest in the airport," with tropical rainforest preserved inside the Satellite Terminal's atrium. The airport operates on a twin-terminal model split between KLIA (Terminal 1, home to Malaysia Airlines and full-service carriers) and klia2 (Terminal 2, the world's largest purpose-built low-cost terminal and the global hub of AirAsia and AirAsia X). This division has given KUL a dual identity — Star Alliance gateway on one side, Asia's largest LCC operation on the other — with combined aircraft movements placing it among the top 25 airports worldwide by traffic. Three parallel runways (13,530 ft / 4,124 m, 13,288 ft / 4,050 m, and 12,993 ft / 3,960 m) accommodate simultaneous independent approaches. KUL sits at 69 ft (21 m) elevation and serves as the principal transit point between Oceania and Europe for AirAsia X's long-haul LCC model, as well as a significant feeder for Middle East carriers routing Asian traffic through Dubai and Doha. Malaysia Airlines anchors the oneworld footprint here with long-haul service to London, Jeddah, Tokyo, and Sydney. A third terminal and a fourth runway are planned under the "KLIA Aerotropolis" masterplan targeting 150M annual capacity by the late 2030s.