Yellowstone Airport
KWYS is the ICAO code for Yellowstone Airport (IATA WYS), located in West Yellowstone, MT.
Airport guide
Yellowstone Airport (KWYS) is a medium airport in West Yellowstone, MT. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KWYS or IATA code WYS. It sits in North America.
Yellowstone Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.
The longest runway measures 8,400 ft (2,560 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.
Yellowstone Airport sits at 6,649 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/Denver. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.
SkyAccess currently tracks 1 departing and 1 arriving private-jet legs at KWYS across the next six months of operator inventory. 1 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
Regional fields like KWYS 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.
Background from Wikipedia
Yellowstone Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located adjacent to U.S. 191/U.S. 287 one nautical mile (2 km) north of the central business district of West Yellowstone, a town in Gallatin County, Montana, United States. Although only open from June through September, commercial passenger service is available during those months. Scheduled airline service is subsidized by the federal Essential Air Service (EAS) program.
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