David Constantijn Saudale Airport

David Constantijn Saudale Airport (IATA: RTI, ICAO: WATR), formerly known as Lekunik Airport, is an airport located in Rote Ndao Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. It serves Ba'a, the capital city of Rote Ndao Regency as well as the largest town in Rote Island. The airport currently serves as one of the main point of entry to Rote Island. Currently, the airport has runway length of 1650 m × 30 m with a taxiway of 75 m × 17 m and aprons measuring 120 m × 85 m. The airport currently can only accommodate small aircraft such as the ATR-72. In addition, the airport also has a 1,170 square meter passenger terminal and an operational building consisting of office buildings, NDB flight navigation building, workshop building, ATC tower, PKP-PK building and PH building.[2] Wings Air is currently the only airline serving the airport, operating 2 daily flights to and from Kupang.[3]

David Constantijn Saudale Airport Bandar Udara David Constantijn Saudale
IATA: RTI ICAO: WATR
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Government of Indonesia
Operator	Ministry of Transportation
Serves	Ba'a
Location	Rote Ndao Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
Time zone	WITA (UTC+08:00)
Elevation AMSL	463 ft / 141 m
Coordinates
Map
RTI Location of the airport in the Lesser Sunda Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 04/22 5,413 1,650 Asphalt
Sources: Indonesian Ministry of Transportation[1]

In the next few years, the airport will be developed again. The total land required for airport development is 64.60 hectares. Existing land currently only amounts to 51.40 hectares, so there are still 13.20 hectares that have not been cleared by the local government. The plan of this land will be used as a terminal parking and access road. To support the development of the airport, in 2018 the government has budgeted the cost of Rp. 49,160,428,000 to be used for runway smoothing, terminal interior renovation, drainage development, operational building construction, road upgrading and so on.[4]