Nagoya Airport
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| Nagoya Airport 名古屋飛行場 Nagoya Hikōjō |
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| IATA: NKM - ICAO: RJNA | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | public | ||
| Serves | Nagoya | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 53 ft (16 m) | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 16/34 | 8990 | 2,740 | Paved |
Nagoya Airport (名古屋飛行場 Nagoya Hikōjō?) or Komaki Airport (小牧空港 Komaki Kūkō?) (IATA: NKM, ICAO: RJNA), is a third class airport in the cities of Toyoyama, Komaki and Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, serving Nagoya.
It is the main hub for J-Air, the only airline that offers scheduled transport service.
The Japan Self-Defense Forces also use the airport as Japan Air Self-Defence Force Komaki Base.
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[edit] Airlines and destinations
[edit] Domestic
[edit] History
Nagoya Airport served as the main airport for Nagoya until the opening of Chubu Centrair International Airport on February 17, 2005. This airport IATA Airport Code used to be NGO (now overtaken by the new Centrair airport), and its ICAO Airport Code used to be RJNN when it was classified as a second class airport; the new designations are NKM for regional flights and RJNA designation for general aviation flights. Aichi Prefecture manages the facilities and regularly handles international business flights.
Nagoya Airport was actually opened in 1944 as a military airport. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Nagoya Airport was a busy international airport because of overflow from Japan's other international airports, New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport) near Tokyo and Osaka International Airport (Itami Airport) near Osaka. Since the opening of Kansai International Airport in 1994, the airport's main traffic source has been the nearby automotive and manufacturing industries, causing carriers such as United Airlines and Delta Air Lines(Portland (OR)) to stop flying to Nagoya. Some discount holiday flights still operated from Nagoya, drawing passengers from the Kansai region. On the other hand, the cargo handling capacity of Nagoya Airport was not enough to satisfy the demands from the regional economy and air cargo shifted to Narita and Kansai. In addition, the airport was hampered by its location in a residential area of Aichi Prefecture, limiting the number of flights that can use the airport, as well as the hours in which they can fly.
Because of these reasons, a new airport, Chubu Centrair International Airport, was built on an island south of Nagoya. All of Nagoya Airport's commercial transport flights (except for flights operated by a regional Japan Airlines' subsidiary J-AIR) moved to Centrair on February 17, 2005 and the old airport then became a general aviation and airbase facility. [1] A dedicated business aviation terminal and commuter flights within Japan then became the key features of Nagoya 's second airport.
[edit] Events
On April 26, 1994, an Airbus A300B4-622R jet operating as China Airlines flight 140 (B-1816) from Taipei to Nagoya crashed onto a runway while trying to land, killing 264 of the 271 people on board, making it the second deadliest crash on Japanese soil.
