Nagasaki airport
| 長崎 空港 Nagasaki Kūkō |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | RJFU |
| IATA code | NGS |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 5 m (16 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 2 km west of Ōmura, 25 km north of Nagasaki |
| Local transport | Bus connections to the surrounding cities |
| Basic data | |
| opening | May 1st, 1975 |
| operator | Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 2,610,770 (2005) |
| Air freight | 19,056 (2004) |
| Runways | |
| 14/32 | 2999 m × 61 m asphalt |
| 18/36 | 1326 m × 30 m asphalt |
The Nagasaki Airport ( Jap. 長崎空港 , Nagasaki Kuko ) is an international commercial airport in Japan , on the island of Mishima ( 箕島 ) in the Ōmura Bay west of the city Omura in Nagasaki Prefecture was built.
A special feature is that the existing island was almost completely transformed into a typical airport island, whereby the existing island area was enlarged from 0.9 km² to 2.4 km² and the entire shape of the island was changed through erosion and landfill. Nagasaki Airport is a 2nd class airport according to Japanese law . The construction phase lasted about three years, from 1972 to 1975. The airport was then opened on May 1, 1975. The construction cost was 180 billion yen. A 970 m long bridge was built to connect the airport with the main island of Kyushu .
With the exception of one connection to Seoul , South Korea and one to Shanghai , PR China, there are only domestic connections.
statistics
| year | commercial passenger volume |
Air freight |
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| 2005 | 2,610,770 | ? |
| 2004 | 2,637,308 | 19,056 |
| 2003 | 2,834,289 | 18,090 |
| 2002 | 2,853,510 | 17,567 |
| 2001 | 2,846,646 | 19,641 |
| 2000 | 2,958,058 | 21,987 |
| 1999 | 3,056,828 | 19,645 |
| 1998 | 3,090,345 | 18,508 |
| 1997 | 3,179,407 | 18,505 |
| 1996 | 3,188,816 | 17,597 |
| 1995 | 3,085,048 | 17,511 |
| 1990 | 2,379,714 | 13,787 |
| 1985 | 1,930,055 | 9,408 |
| 1980 | 1,944,181 | 7,325 |
| 1975 | 631,551 | 2,270 |
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- ↑ Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (English)
- ↑ Airport Overview ｜ Nagasaki Airport. In: nagasaki-airport.jp. Retrieved March 11, 2017 (Japanese).
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Airport website
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )