Kenai Municipal Airport


Kenai Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located in Kenai, a city in the Kenai Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 96,565 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 82,277 enplanements in 2009, and 86,857 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport.

Facilities and aircraft

Kenai Municipal Airport covers an area of 1,200 acres at an elevation of 99 feet above mean sea level. It has two runways: 2L/20R with a 7,855 by 150 feet asphalt pavement and 2R/20L with a 1980 by 75 feet gravel surface. It also has a seaplane landing area designated 2W/20W which measures 4,600 by 252 feet. In addition, the airport has two asphalt helipads that are 100 by 100 feet.
For the 12-month period ending December 1, 2011, the airport had 40,178 aircraft operations, an average of 110 per day: 58% air taxi, 32% general aviation, 8% military, and 3% scheduled commercial. At that time there were 61 aircraft based at this airport: 88.5% single-engine and 11.5% multi-engine.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines offer scheduled passenger service:
Prior to its bankruptcy and cessation of all operations, Ravn Alaska served the airport from multiple locations.

Historical airline jet service

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the airport had scheduled passenger jet service to Seattle. In 1979, Wien Air Alaska was operating nonstop flights to Seattle three days a week with Boeing 737-200 jetliners. By 1981, Wien Air Alaska was flying daily direct Boeing 737-200 service to Seattle via an intermediate stop in Anchorage. Wien then discontinued jet service into the airport and by 1984 was only flying nonstop service to Anchorage with all flights operated with commuter turboprop aircraft.