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Marshall Islands International Airport, also known as Amata Kabua International Airport, serves Majuro, the capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, from a single reclaimed strip on the south side of the atoll. Built during the Second World War and rebuilt as a modern facility in 1971, it remains the country's principal air gateway, handling everything from Air Marshall Islands' inter-island flights to United Airlines' Island Hopper service and jets up to Boeing 767 size.
Marshall Islands International Airport sits on the western part of Rairok, on the south side of Majuro Atoll, and is the main hub for Air Marshall Islands as well as a stop for United Airlines and Nauru Airlines services across the central Pacific. For a simulator pilot it offers a classic remote-atoll approach: a single long runway laid across a narrow strip of reclaimed land with open ocean and lagoon on either side, and airport infrastructure limited to a small single-storey terminal complex. It is operated by the Republic of the Marshall Islands Ports Authority and is capable of accommodating midsize jet aircraft alongside general aviation and inter-island turboprop traffic.
The airfield lies on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands, in the western part of the Rairok area on the atoll's south side. Majuro Atoll forms a narrow ring of islets around a central lagoon, and the airport occupies reclaimed land along this ring, with the open Pacific Ocean to the south and the lagoon to the north. The main and only road on Majuro Island runs past the airfield, connecting it to the rest of the atoll's settlements.
The airport has a single physical runway, 07/25, measuring 7,894 feet in length with a hard surface and lit for night operations. There is no ILS approach available.
Radio communications are handled on a common frequency of 123.6 MHz, used both as the CTAF and for radio calls, with the callsign MAJURO RDO.
The airport was built by wartime forces in 1943 on the islets of Anenelibw and Lokojbar, replacing an earlier coral-surfaced airstrip at Delap Island near the eastern end of Majuro Atoll that had itself been constructed by Japanese occupation forces in 1942. For its first decades the site had no permanent structures, and it was not until 1971 that the current terminal building and a modern runway and apron were constructed. Sea walls have since been added to protect the reclaimed land from erosion, and between 2007 and 2009 the runway surface was replaced, the apron rebuilt, and new markings applied as part of an airport improvement programme that also saw the US Federal Aviation Administration supply two additional crash tenders in 2007. Administration of the airport passed from the Marshall Islands Airports Authority to the Republic of the Marshall Islands Ports Authority in 2003 under the RMI Port Authority Act.
Today the airport functions as the Marshall Islands' principal international gateway, serving as the hub for Air Marshall Islands' extensive network of inter-island flights to destinations across the Ratak and Ralik chains, including Kwajalein, Jaluit, Mili, Arno, Enewetak and many smaller outer-island strips. It also receives United Airlines flights on the trans-Pacific Island Hopper route linking Guam, Honolulu and other Micronesian islands, and Nauru Airlines services to destinations such as Brisbane, Nauru, Tarawa and Pohnpei. The terminal consists of a series of single-storey structures, and arriving passengers disembark via stairs and walk across the apron to the building. The runway and apron are able to handle propeller aircraft as well as midsize jets up to Boeing 757 and 767 size.