Ngurah Rai International Airport
I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport Bandar Udara Internasional I Gusti Ngurah Rai | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Indonesia | ||||||||||
| Operator | InJourney Airports | ||||||||||
| Serves | Bali | ||||||||||
| Location | Tuban, Kuta District, Badung Regency, Bali, Indonesia | ||||||||||
| Opened | 1931 | ||||||||||
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| Time zone | WITA (UTC+08:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4 m / 14 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 08°44′53″S 115°10′03″E / 8.74806°S 115.16750°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
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I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (IATA: DPS, ICAO: WADD), also known as Denpasar International Airport, is the main international airport of Bali, Indonesia. Located 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from Downtown Denpasar, it serves the Denpasar metropolitan area and the whole island of Bali. Ngurah Rai is the second busiest airport in Indonesia after Soekarno-Hatta. Ngurah Rai is one of the most popular island destinations hubs in Asia. In 2018, the airport served 23,779,178 passengers. The new upgrades of Ngurah Rai have increased the popularity of Bali and made it one of the best airports in Asia and more known worldwide. The airport has category IX and is capable of serving wide-body aircraft including the Boeing 747-8 and Airbus A380.
The airport is named after I Gusti Ngurah Rai, a Balinese hero who died on 20 November 1946 in a puputan (fight to the death) against the Dutch at Marga in Tabanan, where the Dutch defeated his company with air support, killing Ngurah Rai and 95 others during the Indonesian National Revolution in 1946.