Syamsudin Noor Airport (IATA: BDJ, ICAO: WAOO) is an airport serving Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is located 10 kilometres south-west of Banjarbaru and 25 kilometres south-east of Banjarmasin, the largest city in Kalimantan. The airport has two distinctive aprons. One in front of the terminal capable of handling 4 medium sized planes and one on the terminal's left capable of serving 4 Boeing 767s. Historically, Boeing 767 was the first wide body aircraft to land in this airport in 2004.
In early 2013, the airport serves 5.5 million passenggers, while the capacity is only for 4.0 million passengers. The authority has allocated Rp.2.1 trillion ($2.2 billion) fund to develop the airport and predicted will be finished in end of 2014.
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