I understand dat many international airport are also distance away from city capital, just like Taoyuan IA, Incheon IA. But they dun tipu ppl said it's Taipei IA, Seoul IA, even the distance travelled is far shorter than KL from Sepang.

Naming it KLIA is the biggest geographical mistake. It's is located 45km away from KL, even after Putrajaya/Cyberjaya, at Sepang district and govern under MPSepang. Naming it KLIA sounds like this airport oso under the federal terrorrity. Look like our BN gov once again steal our precious Selangor land secretly.

It should rename to Sepang Internatonal Airport. Therefore, like Taoyuan and Incheon, Sepang can developed to become another aero-metropolitan instead of hiding behind the shade of KL.

True oso. Like japan, Tokyo airports are called Narita and Haneda.

yeah..but thy cant go and rename it now..can they?? so it would remain KLIA for a very long time..

There has been million discussion about this...

First of all its just a name. It just to emphasized that the airport is the main capital airport especially to foreigners

No, the tax for the airport still goes to state gov and not federal

Another reason gave is that they want to keep the KUL prefix without applying for new one...easier...all the paperwork and system is carry over from the old airport

Thats what I heard last time

Same like BR1M

Sound like give bantuan, but actually, got bantu or not?

yes, by public awareness power... unfortunately, people still call it KLIA

unlike Lapangan Terbang Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (LTSAAS) that people used to called 'Subang Airport'

Like your user name.. go and eat first before posting stupid threads

Lel.... Good one...

Any form of renaming of national/public landmarks ALWAYS towards people's name.

For eg. Bijan Airport or Hamsor Loji penbuangan sampah. Dont expect new names to be even more symbolic or useful.

It's for the sake of people from other countries.

Majority of people knows Kuala Lumpur, but quite sure less people would know where Sepang is.

sepang is part of greater KL

malaysia? where is malaysia? is a country near singapore?

When they landed ,checkout and leave airport.. their jaws gonna drop seeing signboard showing "Kuala Lumpur 60km".

because near to SIC.
SIA confusing

Suvarnabhumi Airport -> BKK

Sepang Airport / Rahman Airport / Tunku Airport / ... -> KUL

Senai Airport -> JHB

This post has been edited by hwt: Nov 16 2015, 04:01 PM

Don't get Tengku Adnan started, later he fed up changing the road name he wants to change the name of KLIA instead. Obviously now Tun Mahathir International Airport is out of consideration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klang_Valley

KLANG VALLEY

dah berapa kali mahu bincang ini

If Sepang have a kuala (confluence) with a lot of mud then it also called kuala lumpur, just saying

HKIA is not on HK island also.....gaduh apa?