Sultan Iskandar Muda International Airport — Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Sultan Iskandar Muda International Airport serves Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province at the northern tip of Sumatra, Indonesia. Its name honors a historic ruler of the Aceh Sultanate remembered for the region's golden age. Coded BTJ, the field sits at an elevation of 65 feet, and a single strip of runway covers all traffic using the airport. The airport gained particular significance after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which struck Banda Aceh especially hard, when BTJ served as a critical hub for international humanitarian relief flights bringing aid and personnel into the region. Today the airport has returned to its ordinary function, handling domestic connections to Jakarta, Medan, and other Indonesian cities alongside a smaller number of international routes, and it remains the main air gateway for Aceh province as a whole. Reconstruction-era investment following the tsunami left a lasting mark on the terminal buildings still in use today.