About Syamsudin Noor International Airport (Banjarmasin Airport)

Syamsudin Noor Airport (IATA: BDJ, ICAO: WAOO) is an airport serving Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is located in the District of Runway Ulin, Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan or 25 km from the center of the city of Banjarmasin, Kalimantan's largest city, and is located 10 kilometers south-west of Banjarbaru.

The Airport has an area of 257 hectares. The airport began operations in 1936 under the name Ulin Intl. In 1975 the airport was officially designated as a civilian airport and renamed to Syamsudin Noor Airport. After the completion of the expansion in 2004, the airport terminal can accommodate 12 aircraft including four Boeing 767-300ER. Historically, the Boeing 767-300ER was the first wide-body aircraft to land at this airport in 2004.

As the airport was running overcapacity, further development and expansion was required. In early 2013, this airport served 5.5 million passengers, whereas the capacity was only for 4.0 million passengers. In August 2012, about 58 hectares of 102 hectares (57%) of the land needed for the expansion had been acquired. The development work was predicted to be completed in late 2014. But the construction of the airport development was delayed and started in 2017 due to land acquisition problems.

Finally the terminal expansion was completed in December 2019. The airport terminal was expanded from 9,000 square meters to 77,569 square meters and is able to accommodate 10 million passengers per year. The new airport terminal began operations on 10 December 2019. The new apron can accommodate 20 aircraft (2 Boeing 747 aircraft, 2 Boeing 777 aircraft, 2 Boeing 767 aircraft, 12 Boeing 737 aircraft, and 2 ATR aircraft). The runway of the airport was also extended from 2,500×45m to 3,000×45m.

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