Sultan Thaha Airport

Sultan Thaha Syaifuddin Airport (Indonesian: Bandar Udara Sultan Thaha Syaifuddin) (IATA: DJB, ICAO: WIJJ) (formerly WIPA), formerly known as Palmerah Airport, is in Jambi City in the Jambi province of Indonesia.

[clarification needed] At that time the dimensions of the runway were 900m x 25m with construction of gravel, and the largest aircraft in operation was the Douglas DC-3.

This year, carried out the installation of a Runway Visual Aid Light, VASI, CCR, and REILS.

Since managed by PT (Persero) Angkasa Pura II has been planned runway extension to 2220m x 30m and has been operated now.

[3] On 12 December 2011, the groundbreaking of expansion terminal phase-1 was done for a capacity of 1.5 million passengers per year.

The expansion includes 10 centimeter runway overlay and the terminal becomes 35,000 meter square.

As part of efforts to promote tourism in Jambi, PT Angkasa Pura II (Persero) placed replicas of temple sites located in Muara Jambi, which is one of the largest temple complexes in Southeast Asia.

The cost of construction of a passenger terminal and parking facilities of Sultan Thaha Airport by a contract value is approximately Rp 126 billion.

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