Buka Airport (BUA)
A working profile of Buka Airport in Buka Island, Papua New Guinea: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Buka Airport
- Serves: Buka Island, Papua New Guinea
- Coordinates: -5.4223, 154.6730
- Elevation: 11 ft
- Time zone: Pacific/Port_Moresby
Buka Airport sits inside the air network of Papua New Guinea. It shows 3 distinct scheduled departures across 2 destinations and 2 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from BUA
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAB | Tokua Airport | Tokua | Papua New Guinea | BUA→RAB | 2 |
| POM | Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport | Port Moresby | Papua New Guinea | BUA→POM | 1 |
Airlines operating at BUA
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from BUA |
|---|---|---|---|
| PX | Air Niugini | Papua New Guinea | 2 |
| CG | Airlines PNG | Papua New Guinea | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into BUA typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAB | Tokua Airport | Tokua | Papua New Guinea | 2 |
| MIS | Misima Island Airport | Misima Island | Papua New Guinea | 1 |
| POM | Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport | Port Moresby | Papua New Guinea | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from BUA on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list BUA to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat BUA as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.