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422 MALAYSIA BY AIR
KL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
64000 Sepang, Selangor T (03) 8777 8888
W malaysiaairports.com.my
LOCATION / ROUTE
KL International Airport (KLIA) is situated in Sepang district, 50km south of Kuala Lumpur. A good network of highways and expressways links KLIA to the rest of Peninsula Malaysia.
HOW TO GET THERE
Car: From Kuala Lumpur via the North-South Expressway and Elite Highway, from Seremban and Melaka
via the Nilai Interchange. Approximately 1 hour from KL and Petaling Jaya, and 45 minutes from Shah Alam. More than 6,000 parking bays are available plus valet parking.
Train: The Express Rail Link (ERL) offers two high speed services. KLIA Ekspres is the fastest service between airport and city (KL Sentral) at 28 minutes non-stop, or 33 minutes to klia2 while KLIA Transit also stops at Bandar Tasik Selatan, Putrajaya & Cyberjaya and Salak Tinggi, taking 35 minutes to KL Sentral or 40 minutes from klia2.
The KTM Komuter Batu Caves-Tampin line runs from Nilai Station to KL Sentral and 24 other destinations
in the Klang Valley and Negeri Sembilan. Frequent connecting buses run from Nilai to KLIA with the combined journey from KL Sentral taking an hour.
Bus: An express bus service operates from 5am-12.30am to and from KL Sentral. Stage Buses operate from 4.15am- 12.30am to Putrajaya and Nilai. Long-distance services
Rated one of the world’s greenest airports, KLIA’s design concept of ‘airport in the forest, forest in the airport’ extends far beyond the passenger areas.
are available to multiple locations throughout Malaysia and Singapore. Taxi: Airport Taxi counters offer regulated, coupon-based taxi, limousine and family van services to selected areas in Kuala Lumpur and surroundings.
PLEASE NOTE: Extensive safety measures have been implemented to help mitigate the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Please refer to the KLIA website for full details.
MAIN FEATURES
KLIA has been one of the world’s most popular airports since its opening in 1998. Designed to accommodate aircrafts as large as the Airbus
A380, its two terminals (see below) are equipped to handle a combined total of 75 million passengers annually.
It is also one of the region’s major air cargo hubs, with an annual capacity of more than 1 million metric tonnes. Its three independent 4,000 metre runways can handle up to 78 aircraft movements per hour, managed by two control towers.
Two passenger-friendly terminals, KLIA Main and klia2 (see next chapter) have a total of 161 passenger aircraft bays; 85 in KLIA Main including
Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi
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Sepang F1 Circuit
KL International Airport
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Pekan Nilai
Masjid Sultan Abdul Samad
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