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?

its not named for geographical purpose, rather ease of recognition...
mamakthirs idea was to put malaysia in the world map....
every major projects were named in a way it can be recognized easily...

KL Tower, Petronas Twin Tower, KLIA all named in a way people can easily relate it to malaysia...
ada kefahaman ?

cant convert to miles, so feel short

so far how many people confuse?

There is nothing wrong in naming it KLIA as it serves primarily KL.

Almost all who goes to KL fly into KLIA.

How apt... Mahathir International Airport (MIA)

luckily KKIA is just minutes from down town KK


inb4 kk's boogies taxi cutthroat

if there is
Charles De Gaulle International Airport
John F Kennedy International Airport

Can have
Tun Razak International Airport



Oh whai

Sepang doesn't sound pretty.

Airport that serves KL, the capital of Malaysia.

KL International Airport lor.

Change name ?
Okay, organise one big contest , launch campaign and choose the best name.

Campaign cost RM 50m, purely internet involved no physical roadshow whatsoever.

I thought Washington capital airport isn't In Washington DC. And taipei airport isn't in taipei proper?

Also all Pipu who stay in selangor all Tak malu mengaku They stay in KL to their kampong folks. If TS want Pipu to be proud of selangor then TS must change selangor(Ian)??? Mentality like that of johorian retarded mentality.

ampang and cheras are part of KL proper.

People from klang valley say they are from KL when they go other state is because other state pipu all think selangor=KL. Last time I living in KK I say I'm from klang, but when they introduce me to other people, they will say I am from KL.

But the airport code for Taoyuan International Airport is TPE...

Kuala Langat International Airport, itupun tak tahu ke

Not really. U may be different either because u are a local or u stay in klang. Klang Pipu had a tendencies to say they from klang. Probably because klang predated KL by 400 years.

but other maybe are ashamed or are more proud by being associated with KL. Also kidzania in Damansara are called kidzania KL while 101 city mall are marketed as putrajaya even if it's isn't in putrajaya.

Also it's quite demeaning to say kampong folks don't know selangor or selangor=KL.everyone are tough at school that KL is a federal territory.

I'm not saying that they don't know, I'm sure if they are given a geography test on it they will get the correct answer, but in day to day life, it's a lot easier to refer the entire klang valley as kl instead of saying the specific area. If you tell someone from sabah that you are from damansara, they will have no idea where that is, but if you say KL, they will at least know which part of malaysia you are from.

+1

instead of renaming the airport, they will put sepang under kl.

so what if sepang geographically not in kl? alaska separated by canada also consider us mah

too late for KLIA.. but maybe we can do it for KLIA2?

instead of naming the airport..

why not just construct new airport at KL.. thinking like political man..

Too much skyscraper oredi so impossible.

Bahahaaaha

nothing impossible in the eye of politician

why not, first elevated airport in the world.. OR first world underground airport

TRX