Hakodate Airport

Hakodate Airport
函館空港
Hakodate Kūkō
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator MLIT
Serves Hakodate, Japan
Elevation AMSL 112 ft / 34 m
Coordinates 41°46′12″N 140°49′19″E / 41.77000°N 140.82194°E / 41.77000; 140.82194Coordinates: 41°46′12″N 140°49′19″E / 41.77000°N 140.82194°E / 41.77000; 140.82194
Website English Website
Map
RJCH
Location in Japan
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 3,000 9,843 Asphalt/Concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 1,772,052
Cargo (metric tonnes) 8,433
Aircraft movement 18,129

Hakodate Airport (函館空港, Hakodate Kūkō) (IATA: HKD, ICAO: RJCH), is an airport located 7.6 km (4.7 mi) east[2] of Hakodate Station in Hakodate, a city in Hokkaidō, Japan. It is operated by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

History

Hakodate airport opened in 1961 with a single 1,200 m runway. A new terminal upgrade and runway extension to 2,000 m became operational in 1971. The runway was extended further to 2,500 m in 1978 and to 3,000 m in 1999. A new terminal building opened in 2005.[3]

On September 6, 1976, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected to the West by landing a MiG-25 Foxbat aircraft at Hakodate Airport.[4]

On June 21, 1995, All Nippon Airways Flight 857, a scheduled Boeing 747 flight from Tokyo to Hakodate, was hijacked by Fumio Kutsumi, a Tokyo bank employee armed with a screwdriver. Kutsumi claimed to be acting on behalf of Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara. The aircraft landed in Hakodate and stayed on the runway overnight for 15 hours before riot police stormed the aircraft at dawn and freed the passengers.[5]

Airlines and destinations

Terminal interior

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Air Do Nagoya–Centrair, Tokyo–Haneda
All Nippon Airways Nagoya–Centrair, Osaka–Itami, Tokyo–Haneda
All Nippon Airways
operated by ANA Wings 		Sapporo–Chitose
China Airlines Charter: Taipei–Taoyuan
China Eastern Airlines Seasonal: Hangzhou
EVA Air Taipei–Taoyuan
Hokkaido Air System Okushiri, Sapporo-Okadama
Japan Airlines Tokyo–Haneda
Seasonal: Osaka–Itami
Japan Airlines
operated by J-Air 		Osaka–Itami
Okay Airways Seasonal: Xi'an[6]
Tianjin Airlines Tianjin
Tigerair Taiwan Taipei–Taoyuan[7]
Vanilla Air Osaka–Kansai,[8] Tokyo–Narita[8]

Ground transportation

Scheduled buses operate to Hakodate Station and the Onuma Prince Hotel.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Hakodate Airport" (PDF). Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  2. ↑ AIS Japan Archived 2016-05-17 at the Portuguese Web Archive
  3. ↑ "日本の空港/VFRパイロットの飛行場・ヘリポート情報誌！". www.dgraph.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  4. ↑ Dowling, Stephen (2016-09-05). "The pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet". BBC. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  5. ↑ Reid, T. R. (1995-06-22). "JAPANESE POLICE STORM PLANE, GRAB HIJACKER". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  6. ↑ "Okay Airways schedules Xi'An – Hakodate flight in Dec 2016". routesonline. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "tigerair Taiwan Adds Hakodate Flights from August 2016". routesonline. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
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  9. ↑ "HAKODATE Airport　函館空港ビルデング株式会社【アクセス】". airport.ne.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-04-17.
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