Flights to Tawau get operated from the Tawau Airport, which is situated in Sabah in the land of Malaysia. The Tawau airport is placed at a distance of thirty one kilometers from the city of Tawau The Tawau Airport operates under the jurisdiction of the Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd. The geographical coordinates of the Tawau Airport serving the Tawau fights are 04º 18' 48 N and 118º 07' 19 E with the runway stretching up to a distance of eight thousand and eight hundred feet, which is approximately equal to two thousand six hundred and eighty two meters.
There are a number of airlines which are currently providing their domestic as well as international
flights to Tawau. These airlines include:
- AirAsia airline operating between the cities of Tawau and Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru and Kota Kinabalu
- Malaysia Airlines which is presently offering its services between the Tawau Airport and Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu
- FlyAsianXpress airline flying between the cities of Sandakan and Tawau
- Transmile Air Services which offer Cargo flight services to Tawau Airport
- RMAF which is a military air service and the Sabah Air which has interesting options like sight-seeing chartered flights from the Tawau Airport at Malaysia
Some of the above mentioned airlines also have provisions for specially arranged cheap flights to Tawau.
Some of the major tourist attractions at Tawau include the following:
- Tawau Hills National Park
- Tawau River
- Bombalai Hill
- Bukit Gemok or the Fat Hill
- Titian Silara
- Bukit Gemok Forest Reserve
- Shan Shui Golf & Country club
- Sipadan, Kapalai
- Mabul and Mataking islands
- Tawau Cocoa Village
- Tarakan and Nunukan island
- Sebatik island
