POMAYPY

Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea · Oceania

Oceania Pacific/Port_Moresby IVCA 46.3

35direct destinations

7airlines

2runways

2,750 mLongest runway

Port Moresby International Airport (IATA: POM, ICAO: AYPY), also known as Jacksons International Airport, is an international airport located 8 kilometres (5 miles) outside of Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea. It is the largest and busiest airport in Papua New Guinea, with an estimated 1.6 million passengers using the airport in 2025, and is the main hub for Air Niugini, the national airline of Papua New Guinea, as well as the main hub for PNG Air. It replaced the original Port Moresby airport, in what is now the suburb of Waigani, whose airstrip remained until the 1990s but no trace of which remains, having been built over.

Location

9.443°S, 147.220°E · 45 m s. n. m. (146 ft)

General data

CountryPapua New Guinea

CityPort Moresby

IATA codePOM

ICAO codeAYPY

Coordinates9.443°S, 147.220°E

Elevation45 m s. n. m. (146 ft)

Time zonePacific/Port_Moresby

Runways2

Longest runway2,750 m

Direct destinations35

Official website Its quality in the IVCA Ranking

Runways · 2

14L/32R

Length2,750 m9,022 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

14R/32L

Length1,410 m4,626 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

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

Radio frequencies · 3

Tower

118.100JACKSONS TWR

Ground

121.700JACKSONS GND

Approach

125.800JACKSONS APP

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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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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.

Airlines operating here · 7

Airlines using it as a main base (hub)

Air Niugini PNG Air

Other airlines with direct routes

Qantas Airways Asia Pacific Airlinescharter China Southern Airlines Philippine Airlines Solomon Airlines

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

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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). Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/POM

MLA

“Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/POM. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/POM.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/POM (Accessed: 17 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_pom,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/POM},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/POM}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-17},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}

Wikipedia

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