| Taichung Airport 臺中航空站 |
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| IATA: RMQ – ICAO: RCMQ
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| Airport type | Military/Civil | ||
| Operator | Civil Aeronautics Administration Ministry of National Defense |
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| Serves | Greater Taichung | ||
| Location | Taichung | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 663 ft / 203 m | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 18/36 | 12,000 | 3,630 | Concrete |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Aircraft Movements | 16,503 | ||
| Passenger movements | 1,283,726 | ||
| Airfreight movements in tonnes | 2,294.0 | ||
Taichung Airport (Chinese: 臺中航空站; pinyin: Taizhong Hangkong Zhan) (IATA: RMQ, ICAO: RCMQ), commonly known as Taichung Ching Chuang Kang Airport (traditional Chinese: 臺中清泉崗機場; simplified Chinese: 台中清泉岗机场; pinyin: Táizhōng Qingquangang Jīchăng), is an airport located in Taichung, Taiwan for both commercial and military purposes. It is also the third international airport in Taiwan, which now provides charter services to Japan, South Korea, Phuket, and Palau, as well as scheduled flights to Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. Macau is likely to be its future destination.
Despite the fact that it is called an international airport, most of the flights now operated here are domestic, and mainly shuttles to some outlying islands.
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Ching Chuan Kang Airport was constructed during the Japanese rule and was named Kōkan Airport (公館空港). The airport then expanded in 1954 according to the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, and later renamed Ching Chuan Kang Air Base in memory of General Qiu Qingquan on March 20, as deputy director of Suppression General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison and commander-in-chief of 2nd Army whose death on January 10, 1948 marked the nationalist defeat in the Huaihai Campaign. 1966 with the airport code CCK. It was the largest air force base in the Far East at the time, allowing B-52 Stratofortress to land. During the Vietnam War, Ching Chuan Kang has become a depot for the US Air Force. The US Air Force had been garrisoning with two fighter squadrons until the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty came into force on March 3, 1955.
As to the civil service, the passenger facilities have constructed since September 4, 2003, and open to service on March 5, 2004, replacing the old Shuinan Airport (Chinese: 水湳機場) located in downtown Taichung. Ching Chuan Kang Airport has ever since become the only airport serving Taichung.
Due to higher demand, a new international terminal began construction in July 2011. The completion of the terminal in 2013 will allow the airport to serve 2.55 million passengers per year.[1] Together with the expansion of the original terminal, it is expected to cost NT$3.89 billion (US$135 million).[2]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air China | Tianjin |
| China Eastern Airlines | Nanjing |
| Hong Kong Express Airways | Charter: Hong Kong |
| Mandarin Airlines | Fuzhou, Guiyang, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Kinmen, Makung, Ningbo, Seoul-Incheon [begins 6 April] Seasonal: Kota Kinabalu Charter: Nanning |
| Shandong Airlines | Jinan |
| Sichuan Airlines | Chengdu |
| Transasia Airways | Fuzhou, Hualian, Shanghai-Pudong, Xiamen |
| Uni Air | Hangzhou, Kinmen, Makung, Nangan, Nanjing, Ningbo, Shenzhen, Xiamen |
| Vietnam Airlines | Seasonal charter: Can Tho [begins 17 January, ends 31 January]. Ho Chi Minh City |
| Xiamen Airlines | Xiamen |
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