Chiayi airport

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嘉義 航空站
Chiayi
Chiayi Airport
Airport building
Characteristics
ICAO code RCKU
IATA code CYI
Coordinates

23 ° 27 '16 "  N , 120 ° 24' 12"  E Coordinates: 23 ° 27 '16 "  N , 120 ° 24' 12"  E

Height above MSL 26 m (85  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 6 km southwest of Chiayi
Basic data
opening January 1, 1978
operator Civil Airport Authority
surface 171.7 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 78,826 (2016)
Air freight 148.5 t (2016)
Flight
movements
1,520 (2016)
Start-and runway
18/36 3050 m × 45 m concrete



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Development of air traffic at Chiayi airport
year Flight
movements
Passengers Freight
(in t)
1976 374 22,652 77.2
1981 720 70,523 488.0
1986 706 67,254 310.5
1991 3,598 93,028 360.5
1996 23,854 1,002,069 84.6
2001 16,436 536.636 146.3
2005 9,318 348.092 481.0
2006 8,727 311,580 433.3
2007 5,255 152.630 339.4
2008 1.953 80,790 218.5
2009 2,331 93,758 217.4
2010 2,209 95,333 221.3
2011 2,281 99,866 216.8
2012 2,046 88.197 205.9
2013 1,686 77,892 195.9
2014 1,669 85.932 180.2
2015 1,574 77,981 167.1
2016 1,520 78,826 148.5

The airport Chiayi ( Chinese  嘉義航空站 , Pinyin Jiayi Hángkōngzhàn ) is an airport located in Chiayi County in Taiwan (Republic of China) . The airport is also unofficially known as Shuishang Airport ( Chinese 水上 機場 , Pinyin Shuǐshàng Jīchǎng ) due to its location in the rural community of Shuishang .  

history

From May 19, 1976, civil aviation began at the Chiayi airfield, which was previously used exclusively for military purposes. The airport terminal went into operation on January 1, 1978 after about a year of construction and was expanded from February to November 1995. The current terminal building covers an area of ​​1464 m². The airport apron measures 11,900 m² and there is a runway measuring 3050 × 45 meters.

The airport with the adjacent air base located Chiayi a common runway and a common runway . The helipad , which has an area of ​​10,815 m² and three helicopter parking spaces, is also shared.

From 1979, Great China Airlines (大 華 航空, part of Uni Air since 1998 ) started flight operations with the destinations Taipei and Magong. Other airlines were added later ( China Airlines , TransAsia Airways , Far Eastern Air Transport , Formosa Airlines ). After the airport passed the one million passenger mark in 1996, it was upgraded to a "Class C airport". A decisive turning point was the opening of the high-speed train connection in 2005/07 and the gradually improved rail and train connections to the Chiayi district. Both of these factors meant that the travel time between Chiayi and Taipei by train or car was drastically reduced and the number of air passengers in Chiayi decreased significantly. Ultimately, the flights from Chiayi to other airports on the island of Taiwan were completely suspended. In 2016, 78,826 passengers were counted in Chiayi. On December 17, 2012, the Executive Yuan approved the establishment of international charter flights to Chiayi.

Occasionally in the past incidents at the Chiayi Air Force Base also disrupted civil air traffic to Chiayi.

Airlines and connections

Scheduled flights are currently only available through Uni Air to the outlying islands to Kinmen and Magong .

Aviation accidents

On August 21, 1990, a Beechcraft 1900-1 of the Taiwanese Air Force (ROCAF) crashed into a sugar cane field near Dongshi (Yunlin) and went up in flames. All 18 inmates were killed. The cause of the accident is unknown.

See also

Web links

Commons : Chiayi Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e 表 3 民航 運輸 各 機場 營運 量 - 按 機場 分, 9. 嘉義 機場 (Table 3 civil aviation transports to the airport, 9. Chiayi airport). (pdf) Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved December 26, 2017 (Chinese).
  2. a b 歷史 沿革 (historical development). (No longer available online.) Chiayi Airport, archived from the original on March 9, 2016 ; Retrieved December 30, 2017 (Chinese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cya.gov.tw
  3. Basic Data. Chiayi Airport, accessed December 30, 2017 .
  4. 2012 Annual Report. Civil Aeroautics Association, accessed December 30, 2017 (English, p. 39).
  5. ^ Matthew Strong: F-16 incident closes Chiayi Airport. Taiwan News, October 5, 2016, accessed December 30, 2017 .
  6. ^ Chiayi Airport Timetable. Chiayi Airport, accessed December 30, 2017 .
  7. UNI Air Domestic Taiwan Flight Number Changes from Sep 2015. September 1, 2015, accessed on December 30, 2017 .
  8. ^ Chiayi Airport Profile. aviationsafetynet, accessed December 30, 2017 .