Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility (NKW)
A working profile of Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility in Diego Garcia Island, British Indian Ocean Territory: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility
- Serves: Diego Garcia Island, British Indian Ocean Territory
- Coordinates: -7.3133, 72.4111
- Elevation: 9 ft
- Time zone: Indian/Chagos
Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility sits inside the air network of British Indian Ocean Territory. It shows 0 distinct scheduled departures across 0 destinations and 0 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.
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 NKW 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 NKW 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 NKW 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.