Taiwan Taoyuan Airport
| 臺灣 桃園 國際 機場 Táiwān Táoyuán Guójì Jīchǎng |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | RCTP |
| IATA code | TPE |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 32 m (105 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 30 km west of Taipei |
| Basic data | |
| opening | February 21, 1979 |
| operator | Taoyuan International Airport Corporation |
| Passengers | 48,689,372 (2019) |
| Air freight | 2,182,342 t (2019) |
| Flight movements |
265,625 (2016) |
| Runways | |
| 05L / 23R | 3660 m × 60 m concrete |
| 05R / 23L | 3800 m × 60 m concrete |
The Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport ( Chinese 臺灣桃園國際機場 , pinyin Taiwan Taoyuan Guoji Jīchǎng ), shortly Airport TTY, is the largest international airport in Taiwan . It is located about 30 km west of Taipei in the Dayuan District of Taoyuan City . The IATA code is TPE.
It is the main hub for China Airlines and EVA Air . Taipei Songshan Airport (IATA code: TSA), located directly in Taipei, has only been handling flights within East Asia (China, Japan and South Korea) as well as domestic and charter flights since the construction of Taiwan Taoyuan Airport .
history
| year | Flight movements |
Passengers (in 1000) |
Freight (in t) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 35.202 | 4,714 | 215.153 |
| 1991 | 62,080 | 10,614 | 634.390 |
| 2001 | 123.916 | 18,461 | 1,189,874 |
| 2007 | 160.120 | 23,426 | 1,605,681 |
| 2008 | 145.993 | 21,936 | 1,493,120 |
| 2009 | 139,399 | 23,293 | 1,654,213 |
| 2010 | 156.036 | 26,749 | 2.230.097 |
| 2011 | 163,200 | 26,414 | 2,064,194 |
| 2012 | 180.761 | 29,270 | 1,981,807 |
| 2013 | 194.239 | 32,214 | 1,967,170 |
| 2014 | 208,874 | 35,804 | 2,088,727 |
| 2015 | 221.191 | 38,473 | 2,021,865 |
| 2016 | 244.464 | 42,296 | 2,097,228 |
| 2017 | 246.104 | 44,878 | 2,269,585 |
| 2018 | 256.069 | 46,535 | 2,322,820 |
| 2019 | 265,625 | 48,689 | 1,978,105 |
| 2020 |
The airport was planned and built in the 1970s because an expansion of the Songshan Airport in the urban area of Taipei was not possible. Today's Terminal I opened on February 21, 1979. Growing air traffic and the establishment of Eva Air in 1991 made an expansion necessary. Terminal II for the airport was opened on July 29, 2000. A new terminal (III) is currently being planned. This third terminal is expected to be completed by around 2020 and will increase the airport's capacity to up to 86 million passengers annually.
On December 24, 2015, the airport's northern runway (05L / 23R) reopened after a nine-month overhaul.
Until 2006, the airport was named Chiang Kai-shek International Airport , or CKS ( 中正 國際 機場 , Zhōngzhèng Guójì Jīchǎng - "Zhongzheng international airport") after the former President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek , who was in the course of his political Career gave the name Zhongzheng . After the nearest city it was also called Taoyuan Zhongzheng Airport ( 桃園 中正 機場 , Táoyuán Zhōngzhèng Jīchǎng ).
In September 2006, the executive yuan decided to rename the airport to “Taiwan Taoyuan Airport”, a name that had already been planned for the airport, but which was politically motivated by the name Chiang Kai-sheks before it opened.
Even after the renaming, the old abbreviation CKS still appears occasionally on flight plans, signs, buses and limousines to the airport.
Transport links
The Autobahn 2 leads to the airport. Buses run regularly to Taipei and other cities in Taiwan. The Taoyuan Metro's airport line, opened in 2017, connects the airport with central Taipei. The journey time between the airport and Taipei Main Station is about 36 minutes by express train. The nearby Taoyuan Station on the Taiwan High Speed Rail can also be reached by metro. The airport can be used as a transit airport, when leaving the transit area an entry and later departure from the Republic of China to Taiwan is necessary.
Incidents
- On September 11, 1979, a crashed Boeing 707-324C of China Airlines ( Air vehicle registration number B-1834 ) shortly after taking off from the airport Taipei-Chiang Kai-shek into the sea. There were no survivors among the six people on board the training flight.
- On 16 February 1998, became Airbus A300-622R of China Airlines (B-1814) in the go-around at the airport Taipei-Chiang Kai-shek into a stall and crashed into a residential area. All 196 occupants who were en route from Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, as well as seven people on the ground, died (see China Airlines flight 676 ) .
- 31 October 2000: the start of a Boeing 747 of Singapore Airlines (9V-SPK) from the airport Taipei-Chiang Kai-shek led to an accident with multiple construction vehicles. Runway 05R was closed due to construction work, which is why runway 05L was assigned at the start . However, the machine turned onto runway 05R instead of following the taxiway a little further to the correct runway. Due to the poor visibility, the pilots could not see two shovel loaders located there ; the plane taking off carried them away. The machine took off briefly and then fell back to the ground. Of the 179 people on board, 83 were killed (see also Singapore Airlines flight 006 ) .
- On May 25, 2002, broke Boeing 747-209B of China Airlines (B-18255) on the way from the airport Taipei-Chiang Kai-shek to the Hong Kong International Airport due to fatigue apart due to lack of maintenance. All 225 people on board were killed (see also China Airlines flight 611 ) .
Terminals
The airport has two terminals.
Terminal I
- Air Macau (Macau)
- Cathay Pacific (Fukuoka, Hong Kong, Nagoya, Osaka-Kansai, Seoul-Incheon, Tokyo-Narita)
- China Airlines (flights to and from Europe and Southeast Asia: Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Denpasar / Bali, Frankfurt am Main, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Phuket, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Penang, Rome- Fiumicino, Seoul-Incheon, Singapore, Vienna-Schwechat, London-Heathrow)
- Cebu Pacific Air (Manila)
- Cathay Dragon (Hong Kong)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Indonesia AirAsia X (Bali / Denpasar)
- Jeju Air (Busan)
- Jetstar Asia Airways (Singapore, Osaka-Kansai)
- Juneyao Airlines (Shanghai-Pudong)
- Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)
- Malaysia Airlines (Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Los Angeles)
- Mandarin Airlines (Asahikawa, Cebu, Hakodate, Ishigaki, Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Subic, Toyama, Wajima, Yangon)
- Peach Aviation (Osaka, Okinawa, Tokyo-Haneda)
- Philippine Airlines (Manila, Kalibo)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok, Phuket, Seoul-Incheon)
- Tigerair (Singapore)
- Tigerair Taiwan (Bangkok-Don Mueang, Chiang Mai, Macau, Naha, Singapore, Tokyo-Narita)
- Transaero Airlines (Moscow-Vnukovo)
- TransAsia Airways (Busan, Cheju, Kota Kinabalu, Macau)
- V air (Bangkok-Don Mueang, Chiang Mai, Macau)
- Vanilla Air (Tokyo-Narita)
- Vietnam Airlines (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City)
Terminal II
- Air Asia (Kota Kinabalu)
- Air AsiaX (Kuala Lumpur)
- Air Busan (Busan)
- Air China (Beijing, Chengdu-Shuangliu, Chongqing-Jiangbei, Shanghai)
- All Nippon Airways (Tokyo-Narita)
- Asiana Airlines (Seoul-Incheon)
- China Airlines , flights to and from North America, Australia, Japan, China and Pacific regions (Anchorage, Brisbane, Fukuoka, Guam, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Los Angeles, Nagoya, New York-JFK, Okinawa, Osaka-Kansai, San Francisco, Sapporo, Sydney, Tokyo-Narita, Vancouver, Guam)
- China Eastern Airlines (Chengdu-Shuangliu, Shanghai-Pudong, Nanjing-Lukou)
- Delta Airlines (New York-John F. Kennedy, Tokyo-Narita)
- EVA Air (Amsterdam, Bangkok, Brisbane, Denpasar / Bali, Fukuoka, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Jakarta, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, London Heathrow, Los Angeles, Macao, Manila, Nagoya, Newark, New York-John F. Kennedy, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Phnom Penh, San Francisco, Sapporo, Seattle / Tacoma, Sendai, Seoul-Incheon, Singapore, Surabaya, Tokyo-Narita, Vancouver, Vienna- Schwechat, Vientiane, Toronto)
- Hong Kong Airlines (Hong Kong)
- Japan Airlines (Nagoya, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)
- KLM Asia (Amsterdam, Manila-Ninoy Aquino)
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- Thai Air Asia (Bangkok)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Ataturk)
- Uni Air (Kaohsiung)
- United Airlines (San Francisco, Tokyo-Narita)
- Xiamen Airlines (Xiamen)
See also
Web links
- The airport website (English)
- Website of the operating company (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Passengers. Ministry of Transportation and Communication, accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ^ Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Cargo Traffic. Ministry of Transportation and Communication, accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of China 2016 . In: Taiwan National Bureau of Statistics (ed.): STATISTICAL YEARBOOK OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA 2016 . 2017, p. 130–131 (English, online - traffic volume at the most important airports in 1952–2016).
- ↑ Terminal 3. Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, accessed December 25, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Reopening of the northern runway of Taoyuan International Airport. Radio Taiwan International (German service), December 24, 2015, accessed December 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Taoyuan Metro->. (No longer available online.) April 18, 2017, archived from the original on April 19, 2017 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 (Chinese (Taiwan)). 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.
- ↑ Taoyuan Metro> Metro Guide> Metro Route> Route Map. (No longer available online.) April 18, 2017, archived from the original on April 19, 2017 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 (Chinese (Taiwan)). 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.
- ^ Accident report B-707 B-1834 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 17, 2017.
- ↑ Ben Yeh: Airbus from Taiwan misses runway. In: Berliner Zeitung . February 17, 1998, accessed June 17, 2015 .
- ^ Accident report A300 B-1814 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 17, 2019.
- ^ Accident report B-747-400 9V-SPK , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 17, 2019.
- ^ Accident report B-747-200 B-18255 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 17, 2019.
