Selaparang Airport
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Selaparang Airport , was the sole airport serving the island of Lombok
Lombok
Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It forms part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to the east...

 and the city of Mataram
Mataram (city)
Mataram is the capital of the Province of West Nusa Tenggara . The city is situated within Lombok Barat Regency and lies on the western side of the island of Lombok, Indonesia...

, the capital of the province of West Nusa Tenggara
West Nusa Tenggara
West Nusa Tenggara is a province in south-central Indonesia. The province encompasses the western portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, except for Bali as the Wallace line running the length of the Lombok Strait forms the western boundary of the province....

, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

 up until it's closure on 30 September 2011. The IATA code AMI came from the nearby port of Ampenan, now a part of Mataram. The airport was operated by PT. Angkasa Pura 1 (PERSERO). The new Bandara Internasional Lombok operated under the AMI IATA code until late November 2011, toward the end of the month the IATA code LOP was formally listed for the new airport and was slowly being transitioned by the airlines operating to Lombok.

Selaparang Airport was closed on 30 September, 2011 to facilitate transfer of resources and operations across to the new Lombok International Airport
Lombok International Airport
Lombok International Airport is a new airport on the island of Lombok in Indonesia. It is the island's only fully operational airport....

 (Bandara Internasional Lombok - BIL) in Central Lombok Regency
Central Lombok Regency
Central Lombok Regency is a division of the Indonesian Province of West Nusa Tenggara. It is located on the island of Lombok and the capital is Praya....

.

On 28 July 2011 the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Indonesia), published an announcement stating that from 1 October 2011 at 02:00 hrs all incoming and outgoing aircraft were to use the new Lombok International Airport
Lombok International Airport
Lombok International Airport is a new airport on the island of Lombok in Indonesia. It is the island's only fully operational airport....

 (Bandara Internasional Lombok - BIL) in Central Lombok Regency
Central Lombok Regency
Central Lombok Regency is a division of the Indonesian Province of West Nusa Tenggara. It is located on the island of Lombok and the capital is Praya....

. The effective date for the announcement was 22 September 2011 with all aircraft operations being expected to cease at Selaparang Airport on 30 September 2011 at 10:00 hrs. . Operations did subsequently cease at Selaparang on the prescribed date at 18:00 hrs. The last person to legally depart by aircraft from Selaparang Airport was Jack Forrest, an Australian Pilot currently studying in Lombok.

International gateway facilities

  • Customs & Excise: no longer available
  • Immigration: no longer available
  • Quarantine; Health, Animals, Plants & Fish: no longer available

Departure tax

Indonesian airports frequently levy taxes upon departing passengers. Passengers departing Lombok's Selaparang Airport were subject to a departure tax
Airport Improvement Fee
An Airport Improvement Fee or Embarkation Fee or Airport Tax or Service charge or Service fee is an additional fee charged to departing and connecting passengers at an airport. It is levied by government or an airport management corporation and the proceeds are usually intended for funding of major...

 of Rp 75,000 for international departures and Rp 30.000 for domestic departures.

General services

  • ATM: no longer available
  • Money Changer: no longer available
  • Post Office: on main road opposite airport
  • Public Telephone

Airport taxi services

Taxi Mataram (Airport Taksi) operated from the airport until 30 September 2011. They had an exclusive contract to provide taxi services to arriving passengers at Selaparang airport.
Arriving passengers purchased taxi coupons at dedicated Airport taxi service counters at both the domestic and the international terminals.
The islands other taxi operators were only able to drop off passengers inside the airport and cannot pick up passengers within the airport grounds.
Prices were set by destination/zone with Lombok comprising 22 price zones. The last zone and pricing adjustment was issued by West Nusa Tengarra government decree in 2009.

Vehicle parking

  • Area : 7334 m2
  • Capacity : 316 sedan / motorbikes / buses

Private vehicles including cars, shuttle buses, buses and motorbikes had access the airport's public parking area and terminal drop off zones.
Public access to the parking area is by a dedicated roadway entered through the main terminal gate from both eastbound and westbound roadways of the nearby Jalan Adi Sucipto which runs parallel to the airports single runway.
The airport operators charged an entrance fee for all vehicles entering the airport including taxis, cars, buses and motorbikes up until the official closure of the airport.

Security facilities

  • Baggage X-Ray: no longer available
  • Walk through metal detector: no longer available
  • Explosive detector: no longer available
  • Hand-wand metal detector: no longer available

Meteorological services

  • Observation: ADA: unknown refer to Bandara Internasional Lombok WADL
  • Forecast: ADA: unknown refer to Bandara Internasional Lombok WADL

Power supply

  • Grid power : PLN : 10 385 KVA
  • On-site genset : 9100 KVA: serviceability unknown

Airport classification

  • Class IIA
  • Runway dimensions
Length: 2100 m
Width: 40 m

Aircraft types
  • Narrow body passenger aircraft
Boeing 737
Airbus A319, A320
Fokker F100

  • Apron Area : 28 181 m2

  • Parking position stands
Narrow body Alt.1 : 8 aircraft
Narrow body Alt.2 : 7 aircraft
Narrow body Alt.3 : 0 aircraft

Taxiway

  • Area total size : 4830 m2
  • Taxiway A:Exit T / W, 105m x 23m, PCN: 24 / f / C / x / T
  • Taxiway B:Exit T / W, 105m x 23m, PCN: 30 / f / C / x / T

PKP-PK

Please note that all the mobile facilities were removed to Bandara Internasional Lombok WADL at the time of cessation of operations at Selaparang.
The resources listed below were those that previously served the operational airport up until 30 September 2011.
  • CAT-VI:
  • Total fleet : 7 unit. Configuration: Foam Tender 3 unit: no longer available
  • Nurse tender : 1 unit: no longer available
  • Rescue tender : 2 unit: no longer available
  • Command car : 1 unit: no longer available
  • Ambulance : 2 units: no longer available
  • Rescue Boat : Not Available
  • Salvage : Not Available

Airfield lighting

  • Approach Light Runway Light: operational status unknown
  • PAPI, REILSt: operational status unknown
  • Taxiway Lightt: operational status unknown
  • Flood Light Apront: operational status unknown
  • Rotating Beacon, Signal Areast: operational status unknown

Flight telecommunications

Please note that all demountable facilities were removed to Bandara Internasional Lombok at the time of cessation of operations at Selaparang.
The resources listed below were those that previously served the operational airport up until D\30 September 2011.
  • HF / VHF, HF SSB, VSATt: operational status unknown
  • ADCt: operational status unknown
  • AMSC, RECORDING SYSTEM, facsimile, HT, MOBILE RADIOt: operational status unknown

Terminal statistics

  • International passenger terminal
  • Area: 1600 m2
  • Capacity 47 000 pax per year

  • Domestic passenger terminal
  • Area: 3196 m2

  • Capacity 285 000 pax per year

  • Cargo Terminal
  • Area: 420 m2


Specifications provided may be subject to change

Proposed regional domestic operations

Several proposals have been floated for future use, including maintaining limited domestic operations at Selaparang Airport to service regional requirements including flights to and from Bali (DPS).
Tourism activity is currently focused upon the west coast of the island from near Meninting northward to include Senggigi, Gili islands, Tanjung and Rinjani. The new International airport is located in southern central Lombok near Praya and is a significant distance further away than the existing facilities at Ampenan. Many of the islands tourism operators are concerned that the added surface travel times and complexity may negatively impact the islands recovering tourism sector. The contrary argument may be presented that the location of the new International Airport near Praya in the central south of the island will open up opportunities both in the south and eastern areas of the island and that suitable commercial shuttle services will emerge to link the new airport to the established tourism destinations in the western and northern areas of the island.

Proposed development as a Regional Aviation Hub

The future use of Selaparang Airport to develop a General Aviation
General aviation
General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...

 Hub for Indonesia may offer considerable opportunities for Indonesia's tourism triangle of Bali, Lombok and Sumbawa. Currently federal law restricts the development of General Aviation in Indonesia due to national laws preventing other than Indonesian registered pilots to operate inside Indonesian airspace
Airspace
Airspace means the portion of the atmosphere controlled by a country above its territory, including its territorial waters or, more generally, any specific three-dimensional portion of the atmosphere....

without a suitably qualified Indonesian pilot present in the cockpit.

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