Lihue Airport

Lihue Airport
LIHPHLI

Lihue Airport

Lihue, Kauai, United States · Oceania
Oceania Pacific/Honolulu
14direct destinations
6airlines
2runways
1,981 mLongest runway
593Aircraft documented
1949opened

Lihue Airport (IATA: LIH, ICAO: PHLI, FAA LID: LIH) is a state-owned public-use airport located in the L?hu?e CDP on the southeast coast of the island of Kaua?i in Kaua?i County, Hawaii, United States, two nautical miles east of the center of the CDP. The airport does not serve as a hub for any airline carrier. Numerous inter-island flights are available daily on Hawaiian Airlines and Southwest Airlines. Major US and Canadian airlines operate flights on narrow-body aircraft to major cities in western mainland North America. The airport is mostly un-walled and open-air, and the check-in is completely outside. The airport is the primary gateway to Kauai for visitors (especially tourists), and has several rental car facilities. Five motion pictures have filmed scenes at the Lihue Airport: Blue Hawaii, Honeymoon in Vegas, Six Days Seven Nights, Soul Surfer, and The Descendants. In a deleted scene of the film Lilo & Stitch; Stitch, Nani, Jumba, and Pleakley hijacked a Boeing 747 jet from this airport, scraping against buildings through downtown Honolulu. After the September 11 attacks, with only a few weeks left in production, the climax was completely reworked to have them use Jumba's spacecraft, and through the Kaua?i mountains. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a small-hub primary commercial service facility.

Location

Mapa

21.974°N, 159.337°O · 47 m s. n. m. (153 ft)

General data

CountryUnited States
CityLihue, Kauai
Coordinates21.974°N, 159.337°O
Elevation47 m s. n. m. (153 ft)
Time zonePacific/Honolulu
Longest runway1,981 m
OperatorDepartamento de Transporte de los Estados Unidos
Opened1949
Direct destinations14

Runways · 2

03/21
Length1,981 m6,499 ft
Width46 m151 ft
SurfaceAsphalt
Lighted✓
17/35
Length1,981 m6,499 ft
Width46 m151 ft
SurfaceAsphalt
Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 4

Tower

118.900TWR · CTAF

Ground

121.900

ATIS (automatic information)

127.200

Area control (center)

126.500HONOLULU CNTR
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Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

What flies here

From our own logbook: 593 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.

593Aircraft documented
414,375Movements recorded
2006–2025Years on record

Types seen here

Airlines with documented aircraft

Busiest routes from here

A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.

Airlines operating here · 6

Other airlines with direct routes

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Daniel Piotrowski · GFDL 1.2 · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Lihue Airport (LIH). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LIH

MLA

“Lihue Airport (LIH).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LIH. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_lih,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Lihue Airport (LIH)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LIH},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LIH}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-16},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}

Wikipedia

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