Sam Ratulangi International Airport
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The Sam Ratulangi International Airport ( Bandara Internasional Indonesian Sam Ratulangi, IATA: MDC, ICAO: WAMM ) is the airport of Manado, the provincial capital of North Sulawesi. It is located around 13 km north-east of the city center of Manado, and is named after the politician Sam Ratulangi from the local people of Minahasa. The airport is the gateway for tourists visiting the world-famous diving paradise in the surrounding region, which is why he has international routes.
Airport grounds
At the airport area is located on the southwest side of the reception building with the access roads and parking areas; on the eastern side extends the only airstrip in north-south direction. Along this runway runs along the entire length a runway, which is connected by four vertical approach or taxiway with the runway. This taxiway linking the runway to the airport apron, on which there is space for 18 aircraft, for example, 2 wide-body aircraft the size of the DC-10, 10 single-aisle aircraft the size of B737 and 6 vans of the type C - 212. There are two passenger boarding bridges, a simple and a double. At these up to three aircraft can be handled when two smaller planes divide the two " fingers" of the double bridge.
At the southwest edge of the airport there is the new passenger terminal building. It was opened in 2001 and is designed for a capacity of two million passengers per year. The passenger terminal is divided into an international area and a domestic area. It has 13 check- in counters, three baggage claim belts and five piers ( " Gates" ) equipped.
In the parking lot in front of the passenger terminal are 300 short term parking available.
As part of the modernization of the airport is also a new control tower was built and expanded and renewed the runway system and the start and runway.
In the south of the apron there is a hangar, and another part of the airport is the Indonesian military reserved. Half length of the runway is located beyond the station, the airport fire brigade.
On the territory of the former terminal building, a 2,280 square-foot cargo terminal building was built. This can handle up to 7,840 tons of cargo a year.
Airlines
Apart from the main Indonesian domestic airlines flies with the Singapore Silk Air to a foreign airline to Manado. Second international destination, Singapore is next to Davao City in the Philippines, which is served by Sriwijaya Air.
Formerly also flew Malaysia Airlines ( Kota Kinabalu ), Air Philippines ( Davao ), Bouraq Indonesia Airlines ( Davao City ), Merpati Nusantara Airlines ( Davao City ) routes abroad and even short time Garuda Indonesia to Taipei in Taiwan.