Pingtung Airport
| 屏東機場 Airport Pingtung Pingtung Airport |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | RCSQ |
| IATA code | PIF |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 24 m (79 ft ) |
| Basic data | |
| opening | November 28, 1994 |
| closure | August 10, 2011 |
| operator | Civil Airport Authority |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 08/26 | 2438 m × 45 m asphalt |
| year | Flight movements |
Passengers | Freight (in t) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 7,364 | 245,579 | 34.1 |
| 2001 | 3,664 | 142,843 | 33.7 |
| 2005 | 2.130 | 88,427 | 31.9 |
| 2006 | 1,560 | 61,607 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 1,351 | 37,449 | 8.3 |
| 2008 | 968 | 16,298 | 45.3 |
| 2009 | 254 | 4,042 | 0.1 |
| 2010 | 244 | 3,552 | 0.6 |
| 2011 | 176 | 2,421 | 0.3 |
The airport Pingtung ( Chinese 屏東機場 , pinyin Pingdong Jīchǎng ) is a former regional airport in the city of Pingtung in the same district of the Republic of China (Taiwan) , which between 1994 and 2011 operation. The airfield is still used by the Taiwanese Air Force .
history
Before 1994 the airport was used exclusively for military purposes. From November 28, 1994, a civilian terminal was opened in a former museum building ( Jhonjheng Art Museum) on the northern edge of the airport site, while the southern part of the site was still reserved for military use. With the opening of a new terminal on May 17, 2005, civil passenger handling also moved to the southern part.
On July 26, 2011, the Taiwan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced that the Executive Yuan had approved a plan to close Pingtung Airport due to low passenger traffic, which it did on August 10, 2011. Most recently, Uni Air only offered flights to and from Taipei three days a week . The opening of the high-speed train route between Taipei in the north and Zuoying (左 營) in the south, which is close to Pingtung, in 2005/07 was seen as the main reason for the sharp decline in passenger numbers . This connection had drastically reduced the travel time by train. Politicians have criticized the fact that, despite these foreseeable developments, NT $ 1.5 billion (then around € 30–40 million) had been invested in the renovation of the airport by 2005 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 表 3 民航 運輸 各 機場 營運 量 - 按 機場 分, 16. 屏東 機場 (Table 3 civil aviation transports to the airport, 16. Pingtung airport). (pdf) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved December 26, 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.
- ^ Pingtung Airport North. airports-worldwide.com, 2010, accessed December 2, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Shelley Shan: Pingtung Airport to close after usage rates plummet. Taipei Times, July 27, 2011, accessed January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ UNI Air ends Pingtung Service; Increase Taipei - Taitung / Matzu Nangan service. routesonline.com, August 11, 2011, accessed January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ CAA may close Pingtung Airport due to low usage rate. Formosa News, February 15, 2011, accessed January 2, 2018 .
