Gimhae International Airport

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Gimhae International Airport 김해국제공항 金海國際空港 Gimhae Gukje Gonghang Kimhae Kukche Konghang
IATA: PUS - ICAO: RKPK
Summary
Airport type		Military/Public
Operator		Korea Airports Corporation
Serves		Pusan
Elevation AMSL		6 ft (2 m)
Coordinates		35°10′46″N, 128°56′17″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
18L/36R	9,007	2,745	Asphalt
18R/36L	10,499	3,200	Concrete

Gimhae International Airport (Hangul: 김해 국제 공항hanja:金海國際空港; Revised Romanization of Korean: Gimhae Gukje Gonghang; McCune-Reischauer: Kimhae Kukche Konghang) (formerly Kimhae International Airport) (IATA: PUS, ICAO: RKPK) is located on the western end of Busan in South Korea. It opened in 1976. A new international terminal will be completed sometime during April 2007.

In 2006, 7,071,037 passengers utilized the airport.[1]

1 Airlines and destinations
2 Incidents
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Air China (Beijing, Hangzhou)
Air Macau (charter to Macau)
Asiana Airlines (Beijing, Fukuoka, Manila, Hangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Jeju, Osaka-Kansai, Seoul-Gimpo & Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenyang)
Cathay Pacific
- Dragonair (Hong Kong)
Cebu Pacific (Cebu)
China Eastern Airlines (Shanghai-Pudong)
China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou)
Far Eastern Air Transport (Taipei-Taoyuan)
Jeju Air (Jeju, Seoul-Gimpo)
Japan Airlines (Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)
Korean Air (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Fukuoka, Guam, Jeju, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Phuket, Qingdao, Sapporo-Chitose, Shanghai-Pudong, Seoul-Gimpo & Incheon, Tokyo-Narita, Xi'an, Yangyang)
Lufthansa (Munich)
Northwest Airlines (Tokyo-Narita)
Philippine Airlines (Manila)
SAT Airlines (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
Shandong Airlines (Qingdao)
Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
TransAsia Airways (Taipei-Taoyuan)
Vietnam Airlines (Ho Chi Minh City)
Vladivostok Avia (Vladivostok)

Malaysia Airlines flew briefly to Gimhae International Airport in the mid 90s.

[edit] Incidents

Tragedy came on April 15, 2002, when a Boeing 767-200ER jet, operating as Air China flight 129 from Beijing to Pusan, crashed into a hill while trying to land at Gimhae during inclement weather, killing 128 of the 166 people on board.