Lake Tahoe Airport

Lake Tahoe Airport (KTVL) is a medium airport in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KTVL or IATA code TVL. It sits in North America.

Lake Tahoe Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 8,541-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 8,541 ft (2,603 m), a heavy-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G550, Falcon 7X, and Bombardier Global 5500. In practice this most heavy and super-midsize jets operate here without restriction.

Lake Tahoe Airport sits at 6,264 ft above sea level. Hot-and-high conditions can meaningfully reduce takeoff performance in summer — planners should factor density altitude into payload and fuel decisions.

Local operations run on America/Los_Angeles. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 6 departing and 5 arriving private-jet legs at KTVL across the next six months of operator inventory. 7 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KTVL are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Lake Tahoe Airport is a public airport three miles southwest of South Lake Tahoe, in El Dorado County, California. It covers 348 acres (141 ha) and has one runway; it is sometimes called Tahoe Valley Airport. Although the airport had almost forty years of airline service, since 2000, it has served only general aviation.