NAGOYA AIRPORT
Nagoya Airport (Japanese: 名古屋飛行場 Nagoya Hikōjō) is a
minor airport in the cities of Toyoyama, Komaki and Kasugai, Aichi
Prefecture, Japan, serving
Nagoya. It is sometimes referred to as Komaki
Airport. Since Februrary 17, 2005 (the opening date of the major
Chubu Centrair
International Airport), its new IATA Airport Code is NKM and ICAO
Airport Code is RJNA. Under Japanese law it has been relegated to a
third class airport.
It is the main hub for J-Air, a regional jet subsidiary of Japan Air
Lines Domestic. J-Air is the only one airline that offers scheduled
transport service here.
The Japan Self-Defence Forces also use the airport as Japan Air
Self-Defence Force Komaki Base.Nagoya
Airport - Airlines and destinations
Domestic
J-AIR- (Akita, Kochi, Matsuyama, Niigata, Obihiro, Yamagata)
Nagoya Airport History
Nagoya Airport served as the main airport for
Nagoya until it was replaced by
Chubu Centrair
International Airport on February 17, 2005. Its IATA Airport Code
used to be NGO (now overtaken by the new airport), and its ICAO
Airport Code used to be RJNN. It used to be classified as a second
class airport.
It was actually opened in 1944 as a military airport.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Nagoya Airport was a busy
international airport because of overflow from Japan's other
international airports, New Tokyo International Airport (now
Narita International Airport)
near Tokyo and
Osaka International
Airport (Itami Airport) near Osaka. Since the
opening of Kansai International Airport
in 1994, the airport's main traffic source has been the nearby
automotive industry, causing carriers such as United Airlines and
Delta Air Lines to stop flying to Nagoya.
Some discount holiday flights still operated from
Nagoya, drawing passengers from the Kansai
region. On the other hand, the cargo handling capacity of Nagoya
Airport was not enough to satisfy the demands from the regional
economy and the demands eroded to Narita and Kansai. In addition, the
airport is also hampered by its location in a residential area of
Aichi Prefecture, limiting the number of flights that can use the
airport, as well as the hours in which they can fly.
Because of these, a new airport,
Chubu Centrair
International Airport, was built on an island south of
Nagoya. All of Nagoya Airport's commercial
transport flights (except for flights operated by J-AIR) moved to
Centrair on
February 17, 2005 and the old airport then became a general aviation
and airbase facility. [1]
Nagoya Airport Events
On 26 April 1994, an Airbus A300B4-622R jet
operating as China Airlines flight 140 (B-1816) from Taipei to Nagoya
crashed onto a runway while trying to land, killing 264 of the 271
people on board, making it the second deadliest crash on Japanese
soil.
(Article based on
Wikipedia article and used under the
GNU Free Documentation License)
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