KVL — Kivalina Airport

Small airport in Kivalina, United States.
IATA code
KVL
ICAO code
PAVL
Size
small
OurAirports class
Passengers
6,419
Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Nonstop routes
3
With open traffic data
Time zone
UTC−9 / UTC−8
America/Nome
Elevation
4 m
13 ft
Runways
1
Longest 914 m

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About KVL

Kivalina Airport is a small airport serving Kivalina, United States. It is run by Alaska and Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. 6,419 passengers used it in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Open traffic data shows 3 nonstop routes from KVL.

Wikidata (CC0) · US BTS T-100. Sources

Busiest nonstop routes from KVL

Route Distance Passengers / year
KVL → OTZ127 km 4,441
KVL → PHO116 km 1,148
KVL → WTK70 km 830

Passengers on the route, both directions, over the period of each source: US DOT / BTS T-100 (Aug 2025 – Jul 2026) for routes touching the US, Eurostat (2024) for routes reported by European airports. Routes outside these are not counted.

Airlines at KVL

  • 8E Bering Air · 1,582 flights
  • 7S Ryan Air f/k/a Arctic Transportation · 16 flights

Departures and arrivals on scheduled passenger flights, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment. Sources

Airports within 150 km

Code Airport Distance
WTKNoatak Airport70 km
PHOPoint Hope Airport115 km
OTZRalph Wien Memorial Airport127 km
LURCape Lisburne LRRS Airport142 km

Distance from KVL to the major hubs

Route Distance Passengers / year
KVL → LHR6,717 km —
KVL → DXB9,181 km —
KVL → CDG7,012 km —
KVL → FRA6,931 km —
KVL → IST7,865 km —
KVL → AMS6,660 km —
KVL → JFK5,933 km —
KVL → ATL6,181 km —
KVL → LAX4,759 km —
KVL → SIN9,927 km —
KVL → HND4,968 km —
KVL → DOH9,268 km —

Runways

Runway Length Width Surface
12/30914 m 18 mGravel

OurAirports (public domain). Sources

Location

Kivalina, Alaska, United States · 67.7346, -164.5599

Map (OpenStreetMap) Wikipedia

Questions

Kivalina Airport has the IATA code KVL and the ICAO code PAVL. Airlines and tickets use the three-letter IATA code; pilots and air traffic control use the four-letter ICAO code.

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