PHKO is the ICAO code for Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole (IATA KOA), located in Kailua-Kona, HI.
Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole (PHKO) is a medium airport in Kailua-Kona, HI. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code PHKO or IATA code KOA. It sits in North America.
Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole 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 7,000 ft (2,134 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.
Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole sits near sea level at 47 ft.
Local operations run on Pacific/Honolulu. 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 4 departing and 2 arriving private-jet legs at PHKO across the next six months of operator inventory. 5 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
Regional fields like PHKO 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.