Juanda International Airport

Juanda International is the primary airport of Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city and the commercial and industrial capital of East Java — a metropolitan region of nearly 10M people whose port handles the bulk of the archipelago's eastern trade. It is the country's third-busiest airport after Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and Bali's Ngurah Rai, and the main domestic gateway for flights into Java's east, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and the Nusa Tenggara chain. The airport operates two terminals: T1, which handles all domestic traffic and the majority of movements, and T2, which serves international routes including Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Taipei, and the annual Hajj pilgrimage charters to Jeddah and Medina. The Hajj role is structurally significant — East Java is one of the world's largest Muslim-majority regions by population, and Juanda is one of five designated embarkation airports for Indonesian pilgrims, which produces seasonal widebody capacity that quadruples during the Hajj weeks. The single 3,000 m (9,843 ft) runway supports routine 777 and A330 operations; 83 routes to 39 destinations are served by 21 airlines, led by Lion Air, Citilink, and Garuda Indonesia. Juanda is jointly operated as a civil facility alongside the Indonesian Navy's Juanda Naval Air Base, which lies east of the commercial terminals — one of several dual-use airports in Indonesia. A third terminal and second runway have been under active planning since 2018 to raise capacity from the current 13M to more than 40M passengers annually. The airport handled approximately 11.5M passengers in 2023.