Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport

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Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport
IATA: GUM - ICAO: PGUM
Summary
Airport type		Public
Serves		Hagåtña, Guam
Elevation AMSL		298 ft (91 m)
Coordinates		13°29′00.42″N, 144°47′45.54″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
6R/24L	8,001	2,439	Asphalt
6L/24R	10,015	3,053	Concrete/Asphalt

Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport (IATA: GUM, ICAO: PGUM), also known as Guam International Airport, is an airport located in Tamuning, six miles northeast of the capital city of Hagåtña (formerly Agana) in the U.S. territory of Guam. It is named for Antonio Borja Won Pat, the first delegate from Guam to the United States House of Representatives.

The airport is a hub for Continental Micronesia, a subsidiary of Continental Airlines.

1 Airlines and destinations
2 Destination Stopped
3 Disasters
4 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

All Nippon Airways (Osaka-Kansai)
China Airlines (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
Continental Airlines (Honolulu, Houston-Intercontinental, Tokyo-Narita)
- Continental Micronesia (Cairns, Chuuk, Denpasar/Bali, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Koror, Kosrae, Kwajalein, Majuro[seasonal], Manila, Nagoya-Centrair, Niigata, Okayama, Osaka-Kansai, Palau, Pohnpei, Sapporo-Chitose, Sendai, Tokyo-Narita, Yap)
- Continental Connection operated by Cape Air (Rota, Saipan)
Freedom Air (Rota)
Japan Airlines
- JALways (Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)
Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)
Northwest Airlines (Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)
Philippine Airlines (Manila)

[edit] Destination Stopped

Asiana Airlines (Seoul-Gimpo)

[edit] Disasters

Tragedy came in 1997 when Korean Air Flight 801 crashed before it could land at GUM. Only 26 passengers survived.

On August 19, 2005 a Northwest Airlines Boeing 747-200 landed with it's nose gear retracted causing the plane to skid on its nose towards the end of the runway. There were no fatalities and only 2 injures were reported.