Taipei Songshan Airport

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Taipei Songshan Airport

IATA: TSA - ICAO: RCSS
Summary
Airport type		public
Operator		Civil Aeronautics Administration, Ministry of National Defense
Serves		Taipei City
Elevation AMSL		18 ft (5 m)
Coordinates		25°4′10″N, 121°33′6″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
10/28	8,547	2,605	Paved

Taipei Songshan Airport (IATA: TSA, ICAO: RCSS) (臺北松山機場) (Pinyin: Tái-běi Sōng-shān Jī Chǎng), is a midsize commercial airport located in Songshan District, Taipei City, Republic of China in northern Taiwan. The airport covers an area of 1.82 km². Because of its location and that it mostly serves domestic scheduled flights, Taipei Songshan Airport is commonly referred as Songshan Airport or Songshan Domestic Airport.

1 Servicing airlines
2 Airport Service
3 History
4 See also
5 External link

[edit] Servicing airlines

Airlines providing regular passenger and cargo flight are:

China Airlines (Kaohsiung)
- Mandarin Airlines (Hsinchu, Hualien, Kaohsiung, Kinmen, Ludao, Orchid Island, Makung, Pintung, Taichung, Tainan, Taitung)
EVA Air
- Uni Air (Kaohsiung, Pintung)
Far Eastern Air Transport (Hualien, Kaohsiung, Makung, Taichung, Tainan)
TransAsia Airways (Hualien, Makung, Kaohsiung, Ludao, Pintung, Taichung, Tainan)

Four offer unscheduled charter flight:

Daily Air (德安)
Sunrise Airlines (中興)
Great Bird Air Lines (大鵬)
Asia Pacific Airlines (亞太)

[edit] Airport Service

Food & Beverage Shopping
Currency exchange Post office
Insurance Passenger services
Information kiosk Nursery
Telephone Service Nursing Station
Weather Information Flight Information Display System
Baggage Lockers Parking lot
Service for the Handicapped Message Service
Wireless Internet Service Aircargo Service

[edit] History

The airport has its origins as a Japanese military airbase, the Matsuyama Airdrome, during Japanese rule. After World War II, in 1946, it was taken over by the Republic of China Air Force. Before the end of the Chinese Civil War and the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the airport provided flight routes between Shanghai and Taipei, occasionally via Fuzhou.

Shared military and civilian use—both domestic and international—began on April 16, 1950 in the reconstructed Civil Aeronautics Administration Taipei Airport (交通部民用航空局台北航空站). Domestic destinations have been Kaohsiung, Hualien, Taichung, Makung, and Tainan. The first international destinations were Seattle, Tokyo, Pusan, Manila, Bangkok, and Hong Kong. The first international airlines included Japan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, and Garuda Indonesia. Later, the airport became too small to handle an increased number of passengers, even after a series of expansions. This later worsened when new wide-body jets became common at the airport. Therefore, all international activities were relocated to Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (now Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport) after its inauguration on February 26, 1979.

An issue of contention is whether planned future flights to the mainland would fly out of Songshan Domestic or CKS International (since some in Taiwan consider the mainland "domestic" while others do not). Then mayor Ma Ying-jeou has been pressing to make Songshan Airport Taipei's main cross-strait terminal, citing that its location close to the city center would make it preferable for business travellers. However, some members of the pan-green coalition have cited that allowing mainland flights to land so close to the presidential headquarters would cause a security hazard.