Noto Airport

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Noto Airport 能登空港 Noto Kūkō

IATA: NTQ - ICAO: RJNW
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Ministry of Transport
Serves		Wajima, Ishikawa
Elevation AMSL		718 ft (219 m)
Coordinates		37°17′35″N, 136°57′43″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
07/25	6562	2,000	Asphalt

Noto Airport (能登空港, Noto Kūkō^?) (IATA: NTQ, ICAO: RJNW), also unofficially known as Wajima Airport (輪島空港, Wajima Kūkō^?) is a domestic airport in the city of Wajima on the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

The airport is a four-story building with two jetways. It is officially designated a third class airport.

1 History
2 Airlines and destinations
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Completed only on July 7, 2003, Noto Airport is among Japan's newest greenfield airports not constructed to replace an existing facility. Initially, All Nippon Airways (ANA) was only willing to operate one flight per day^[1]. Ishikawa Prefecture thus suggested Japan's first occupancy guarantee agreement (搭乗率保証制度), in which ANA agreed to operate two daily flights and in exchange Ishikawa Prefecture agreed to compensate ANA if occupancy fell below a set target (initially 70%) and gross ticket sales were under 200 million yen. However, the agreement also specified that if the target is exceeded, ANA must pay the excess back to Ishikawa Prefecture^[1]. So far, the agreement seems to have been mutually beneficial:

In the first year (2003-2004), ANA operated with a 126-seat Boeing 737-500 and achieved 79.5% occupancy, well above the 70% target. ANA paid 97.3 million yen to Ishikawa Prefecture^[2].
In 2004-2005, ANA upgraded to a 170-seater and the target was revised to 63%, with actual occupancy 64.6%. ANA paid 15.9 million yen.
In 2005-2006, the plane was changed again to a 166-seater and the target nudged upwards to 64%, with actual occupancy 66.5%. ANA paid 20.0 million yen^[3].