Wabush Airport (IATA: YWK) is located 1.9 km northeast of Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
The runway is 300m wide and 1948.8m long at an elevation of 545.9m. The terminal building houses a restaurant and commercial offices as well as several car rental firms.
Until the opening of Quebec Highway 389 and the Trans-Labrador Highway, the most widely used form of transportation for leaving or returning to Labrador West was by 737 jet plane. When the road opened, there was an inital sharp reduction in air travel. However with the boom in mining is the past few years the building has become very busy, too busy for its size some say. Current commercial service is by a variety of aircraft, the most common being the turbo-prop planes like the Dash-8 and Saab-A340.
Some of the major Airlines that service Wabush Airport:
Air Canada operated by Exploits Valley Air Services
Air Canada Jazz
Air Inuit
Provincial Airlines
Pascan Aviation
Other nearby airports are;
Churchill Falls Airport, Churchill Falls (ZUM), 197km (123mi)
Schefferville Airport, Schefferville (YKL), 210km (131mi)
Tasiujuaq Airport, Tasiujuaq (YTQ), 219km (137mi)
Sept-Iles Airport, Sept-Iles (YZV), 303km (189mi)
Havre St Pierre Airport, Havre St Pierre (YGV), 370km (230mi)