New Chitose Airport
Largest civil airport serving Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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New Chitose Airport (新千歳空港, Shin-Chitose Kūkō) (IATA: CTS, ICAO: RJCC) is an international airport located 2.7 nautical miles (5.0 km; 3.1 mi) south-southeast of Chitose[3] and Tomakomai, Hokkaidō, Japan, serving the Sapporo metropolitan area. By both traffic and land area, it is the largest airport in Hokkaidō.
New Chitose Airport 新千歳空港 Shin-Chitose Kūkō | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Owner | Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Operator | Hokkaido Airports [ja] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Serves | Sapporo metropolitan area | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Chitose and Tomakomai | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | July 1988; 35 years ago (1988-07) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 70 ft / 21 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°46′31″N 141°41′33″E | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Statistics (2017 = One of Mostly domestic terminal airport in Japan) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism[2] |
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.
As of 2018, New Chitose Airport was the fifth-busiest airport in Japan, and ranked 64th in the world in terms of passengers carried.[4] The 819 km (509 mi) Sapporo–Tokyo Haneda route is the second busiest air route in the world (behind the Jeju-Seoul Gimpo route), with 9.7 million passengers carried in 2018.[5]