New Chitose Airport

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New Chitose Airport (新千歳空港, Shin-Chitose Kūkō^?) (IATA: CTS, ICAO: RJCC), is an airport located in Chitose and Tomakomai, Hokkaidō, Japan, serving the Sapporo metropolitan area. By land area, it is the largest airport in Japan.

The airport has a single semicircular terminal building (similar to the terminals at DFW Airport), which handles domestic and international flights.

[edit] History

New Chitose opened in 1991 to replace Chitose Airport (now a JASDF base). Its IATA airport code was originally SPK, but that code was later adopted as a city code to refer to both Chitose and the smaller Okadama Airport in central Sapporo.

New Chitose became Japan's first 24-hour airport in 1994. During the 1990's, it was touted as an international gateway and had regular flights to Europe and Oceania. Today, its services to Europe have ceased, while its international services are mainly transporting tourists from East Asia and Australia for sightseeing and skiing.

On July 24, 1999, All Nippon Airways Flight 61, which was flying from Tokyo International Airport to Chitose, was hijacked shortly after takeoff. The hijacker killed the pilot before he was subdued. The Boeing 747 landed safely.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

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

Terminal building

• Air Do (Tokyo-Haneda)
• All Nippon Airways (Fukuoka, Fukushima, Kagoshima, Kobe, Komatsu, Matsuyama, Memanbetsu, Nagoya-Centrair, Nemuro-Nakashibetsu, Niigata, Okayama, Osaka-Itami, Osaka-Kansai, Rishiri, Sendai, Shonai, Tokyo-Haneda, Tokyo-Narita, Toyama, Wakkanai)
• Cathay Pacific Airways (Hong Kong)
• China Airlines (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
• China Eastern Airlines (Shanghai-Pudong)
• China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou)
• Continental Airlines
  • Continental Airlines operated by Continental Micronesia (Guam)
• EVA Air (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
• Hokkaidō Air System (Kushiro, Monbetsu)
• Japan Airlines (Akita, Aomori, Fukuoka, Hanamaki, Hiroshima, Honolulu, Kobe, Memanbetsu, Misawa, Nagoya-Centrair, Naha, Niigata, Osaka-Itami, Osaka-Kansai, Saipan, Sendai, Shinshu-Matsumoto, Tokyo-Haneda, Tokyo-Narita)
  • JAL Express (Sendai)
• Korean Air (Busan, Seoul-Incheon)
• Qantas Airways (Cairns, Melbourne [late December — March])
• Sakhalin Airlines (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
• Skymark Airlines (Tokyo-Haneda)

The Chitose-Tokyo route is the world's busiest air route, handling over 40 round-trip widebody flights a day.^{[citation needed]} The flight time between Chitose and Tokyo is approximately 90 minutes.

[edit] Ground transportation

[edit] Rail

New Chitose Airport Station is located on a spur off the JR Chitose Line. Rapid service trains operate to and from Sapporo Station, taking 36-39 minutes and costing ¥1,040.

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

• New Chitose Airport Homepage