New Chitose Airport

New Chitose Airport 新千歳空港 Shin-Chitose Kūkō
IATA: CTS – ICAO: RJCC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Civil Aviation Bureau Hokkaidō Airport Terminal Co., Ltd. (terminal)
Serves	Sapporo metropolitan area
Location	City of Chitose and Tomakomai
Elevation AMSL	70 ft / 21 m
Coordinates	42°46′31″N 141°41′33″E / 42.77528°N 141.69250°E / 42.77528; 141.69250Coordinates: 42°46′31″N 141°41′33″E / 42.77528°N 141.69250°E / 42.77528; 141.69250
Website	www.new-chitose-airport.jp/en
Map
CTS New Chitose Airport in Japan
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 01R/19L 3,000 9,843 Asphalt/Concrete 01L/19R 3,000 9,843 Asphalt/Concrete 18R/36L[1] 2,700 8,858 Concrete 18L/36R[1] 4,000 13,123 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
International Passengers 1,553,374 Domestic Passengers 17,717,548 Total Passengers 19,270,922
Source: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (Japan)[2]

New Chitose Airport (新千歳空港, Shin-Chitose Kūkō) (IATA: CTS, ICAO: RJCC), is an airport located 2.7 NM (5.0 km; 3.1 mi) south southeast of Chitose^[3] and Tomakomai, Hokkaidō, Japan, serving the Sapporo metropolitan area. By land area, it is the largest airport in Hokkaidō.

It is adjacent to Chitose Air Base, a Japan Air Self-Defense Force base which houses F-15 Eagle fighter jets, the Japanese Air Force One government aircraft and a number of smaller emergency response aircraft and helicopters. Chitose and New Chitose have separate runways but are interconnected by taxiways, and aircraft at either facility can enter the other by ground if permitted; the runways at Chitose are occasionally used to relieve runway closures at New Chitose due to winter weather. JASDF provides air traffic control for both facilities.

As of 2005, New Chitose Airport was the third busiest airport in Japan (behind Narita and Haneda) and ranked #64 in the world in terms of passengers carried.^[4] The 894 km (556 mi) New Chitose - Tokyo Haneda route is the busiest air route in the world, with 8.8 million passengers carried (out of 13.2 million seats available) in 2010.^[5]

History

New Chitose opened in 1991 to replace the adjacent Chitose Airport, a joint-use facility which had served passenger flights since 1963. The airport's IATA airport code was originally SPK. This code was later adopted as a city code to refer to both New Chitose and the smaller Okadama Airport in central Sapporo, which handles commuter flights within Hokkaido.

New Chitose became Japan's first 24-hour airport in 1994. Services between 10 PM and 7 AM are currently limited to six flights per day due to noise alleviation concerns. Four of these slots are currently used by passenger flights to Tokyo while the other two are used by cargo flights.

Along with Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport in Russia, it is one of the closest Asian airports to North America along the great circle route used by transpacific flights, and is therefore an ideal refueling stop for many heavy cargo flights between Asia and North America.

New Chitose previously had long-haul service to Amsterdam (KLM, 1997–2002), Cairns (Qantas, 1992–1998 and 2004–2007) and Honolulu (JALWays, 1992–2003); service to Honolulu will resume November 2012 on Hawaiian Airlines. Today, its services to Europe have ceased, while its international services are mainly transporting tourists from the rest of Asia and for sightseeing and skiing. The area surrounding gates 0 through 2, on the north end of the main terminal, was a sterile area for international flights until the international terminal opened for service on March 26, 2010.

The airport was upgraded with additional private aircraft handling facilities for the 34th G8 summit, held in Hokkaido in 2008.

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  Airport diagram. Civil flights use the parallel runways to the southeast; JASDF flights use the parallel runways to the northwest.

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  Terminal building

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  Domestic terminal atrium

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  International terminal

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  International departures area

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Airlines and destinations

The airport has a semicircular domestic terminal (similar in design to the terminals at DFW Airport) with eighteen gates, and a smaller international terminal with six gates. Operating hours for international flights at CTS are restricted by the Japanese government in order to avoid interference with JASDF operations at the adjacent air base. As of April 2012, international flights are permitted on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from noon to 4 pm, and from 5 pm on Friday through 11:59 pm on Sunday.^[6]

Passenger

Other facilities

The domestic terminal contains a 188-room hotel, the hotelcom's New Chitose Airport.^[16]

China Airlines operates its Sapporo office on the third floor of the airport building.^[17]

The airline Hokkaido Air System was at one time headquartered in the New Chitose airport terminal.^[18] Now its head office is on the property of Okadama Airport in Higashi-ku, Sapporo.^[19]

Ground transportation

Rail

New Chitose Airport Station is located on a spur off the Chitose Line of Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido). Rapid service trains operate to and from Sapporo Station, taking 36–39 minutes and costing ¥1,070.^[20]

Bus

• Hokkaidō Chūō Bus/Hokuto Kotsu joint service (Sapporo 4 trips/hr., Oyachi 4 trips/hr.)
• Hokkaidō Chūō Bus (Asabu 1–2 trips/hr., Miyanosawa 1–2 trips/hr.)
• Hokuto Kotsu (Apa Hotel & Resort 2 trips/hr., Maruyama Park hourly)
• Donan Bus (Tomakomai 1–2 trips/hr., Noboribetsu 3 trips/day, Muroran 12 trips/day, Hobetsu 2 trips/day, Urakawa 2 trips/day)
• Atsuma Bus (Atsuma 3 trips/day)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to New Chitose Airport.

• Official website

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