Naha Airport

For the airport in Naha, North Sulawesi, Indonesia (NAH/WAMH), see Naha Airport (Indonesia).
Naha Airport
那覇空港
Naha Kūkō
IATA: OKAICAO: ROAH
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
Serves Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Hub for
Focus city for Skymark Airlines
Elevation AMSL 11 ft / 3 m
Coordinates 26°11′45″N 127°38′45″E / 26.19583°N 127.64583°E / 26.19583; 127.64583
Map
OKA

Location in Japan

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
18/36 3,000 9,843 Asphalt
Source: Japanese AIP at AIS Japan[2]

Naha Airport (那覇空港 Naha Kūkō) (IATA: OKA, ICAO: ROAH) is a second class airport located 4 km (2.5 mi) west of the city hall[2] in Naha, Okinawa. It is Japan's seventh busiest airport and the primary air terminal for passengers and cargo traveling to and from Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and handles scheduled international traffic to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China. The airport is also home to Naha Air Base of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.

Congested Naha Airport served 14,495,054 passengers in FY2006, roughly similar numbers in 2012. Its single 3,000 m (9,843 ft) runway handles in excess of 150 flights daily, close to maximum capacity.

History

Oroku Aerodrome (小禄飛行場), an Imperial Japanese Navy airfield, opened in 1933. The base was taken over by the United States in 1945 and was renamed Naha Airport (那覇飛行場). Pan American World Airways and Northwest Orient began service to Naha in 1947.

The airport was closed for refurbishment between 1952 and 1954. Japan Airlines began service to Okinawa during this time and initially used Kadena Air Base.

Air America operated interisland flights to Miyako and Ishigaki from 1964 to 1967, when Southwest Airlines (now Japan Transocean Air) took over these routes.

Okinawa was returned to Japan in 1972. In 1982, Naha Airport was transferred from US military control to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.

The airport was a popular connecting point between Taipei and Shanghai prior to the opening of direct flights between mainland China and Taiwan.

The basic and detailed design engineering works in addition to the later construction management phase of the main passenger terminal were awarded in the 1990s in part to the Japan Branch of the American design-build engineering company, The Austin Company, which joined Japanese firms in a joint venture design consortium.

Peach, a low cost carrier based at Kansai International Airport in Osaka, announced that it would establish its second hub at Naha in July 2014, which would initially have flights to Osaka, Fukuoka, Ishigaki and Taipei.[1] ANA Holdings, the parent company of both Peach and Vanilla Air, opened a new LCC terminal in a refurbished portion of the airport's cargo area in October 2012, and plans to open new international facilities in October 2014.[3]

Development

The airport has been undergoing major projects that will continue to transform the airport:

Incidents

Terminals

Interior of the terminal building

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Air China Beijing-Capital, Tianjin
All Nippon Airways Hiroshima, Iwakuni,[7] Kumamoto, Matsuyama, Miyako, Nagasaki, Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Itami, Osaka-Kansai, Sendai, Shizuoka, Takamatsu, Tokyo-Haneda, Tokyo-Narita
Seasonal: Niigata
All Nippon Airways
operated by ANA Wings
Fukuoka, Kagoshima, Miyako, New Ishigaki
Asiana Airlines Busan, Seoul-Incheon
Beijing Capital Airlines Shenyang (begins 15 May 2016)[8]
China Airlines Kaohsiung,[9] Taipei-Taoyuan
China Eastern Airlines Fuzhou,[10] Hangzhou,[11] Shanghai-Pudong
Dragonair Hong Kong
Eastar Jet Seoul-Incheon[12]
EVA Air Taipei-Taoyuan
Fuji Dream Airlines Fukuoka, Nagoya-Komaki
Hainan Airlines
operated by Beijing Capital Airlines
Hangzhou,[13] Xi'an
Hong Kong Airlines Hong Kong
Japan Airlines Osaka-Itami, Tokyo-Haneda
Japan Airlines
operated by Japan Transocean Air
Fukuoka, Ishigaki, Kagoshima, Komatsu, Kumejima, Miyako, Okayama, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Haneda
Japan Transocean Air
operated by Ryukyu Air Commuter
Amamioshima, Kitadaito, Kumejima, Minamidaito, Yonaguni, Yoron
Seasonal: Miyako
Jeju Air Busan,[14] Seoul-Incheon [15]
Jetstar Japan Nagoya-Centrair,[16] Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita
Jin Air Busan, Seoul-Incheon[17]
Juneyao Airlines Nanjing (begins 1 July 2016),[18] Shanghai-Pudong
Korean Air Seoul-Incheon (begins 5 May 2016)[19]
Mandarin Airlines Taichung
Peach Fukuoka,[20] Hong Kong,[21] Osaka-Kansai, Seoul-Incheon,[22] Taipei-Taoyuan,[23] Tokyo-Narita[24]
SilkAir Seasonal Charter: Singapore (begins 1 June 2016)[25]
Skymark Airlines Fukuoka, Ibaraki,[26] Ishigaki, Kobe, Miyako, Nagoya-Centrair, Tokyo-Haneda
Seasonal: Sapporo-Chitose[27]
Solaseed Air Kagoshima, Kobe, Matsumoto, Miyazaki, Niigata, Sendai, Tokyo-Haneda[28]
Tigerair Taiwan Taipei-Taoyuan[29]
TransAsia Airways Taipei-Taoyuan
V Air Taipei-Taoyuan (begins 1 July 2016)[30]
Vanilla Air Tokyo-Narita[31]

Cargo service

All Nippon Airways operates an overnight cargo hub at Naha Airport, which receives inbound Boeing 767 freighter flights from key destinations in Japan, China and Southeast Asia between 1 and 4 a.m., followed by return flights between 4 and 6 a.m., allowing overnight service between these regional hubs as well as onward connections to other ANA and partner carrier flights.[32]

The hub began operations in 2009; by 2013 it served eight cities, and ANA had chartered a Nippon Cargo Airlines Boeing 747 freighter to handle demand on the trunk route from Narita International Airport.[33]

Transport

The airport is served by the Okinawa Monorail which carries passengers from Naha-kūkō Station to the center of Naha, and to the terminal at Shuri Station near Shuri Castle. Bus service is also available to many parts of Okinawa Island.

References

  1. 1 2 Yoshikawa, Tadayuki (21 January 2014). "ピーチ、那覇-福岡線開設 7月に第2ハブ稼働". Aviation Wire. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  2. 1 2 AIS Japan
  3. "ANA、那覇の国際線LCCターミナル公開 10日からピーチ使用". Aviation Wire. 8 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  4. http://flyteam.jp/news/article/19108
  5. http://english.ryukyushimpo.jp/2015/04/30/18285/
  6. "ANA jet aborts take-off after SDF copter cuts across its path at Naha airport". Japan Today. 4 June 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  7. "ANA Adds New Domestic Routes in S16". airlineroute. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  8. "Capital Airlines Adds Shenyang – Japan Routes from mid-May 2016". airlineroute. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  9. http://airlineroute.net/2014/03/24/ci-khhoka-apr14/
  10. "China Eastern Adds Fuzhou - Okinawa Service from July 2015". Airlineroute.net. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  11. http://www.japanupdate.com/2015/07/china-eastern-connects-naha-and-fuzhou-hangzhou-from-17th/
  12. "Eastarjet Adds Seoul - Okinawa Service from late-Oct 2015". Airlineroute.net. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  13. "Beijing Capital Airlines to Start Hangzhou - Okinawa Service from late-Oct 2014". Airline Route. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  14. http://airlineroute.net/2015/09/29/7c-pusoka-w15/
  15. https://www.jejuair.net/jejuair/booking/schedule/timeTable.jsp
  16. "Jetstar Route Map". Jetstar,accessdate=9 February 2015.
  17. http://www.japanupdate.com/2013/05/jin-air-to-restart-daily-naha-seoul-flights/
  18. "Juneyao Airlines Adds Nanjing – Okinawa Service from July 2016". airlineroute. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  19. "Korean Air Adds New Asian Routes from May 2016". airlineroute. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  20. http://www.flypeach.com/Portals/0/PressReleases/2014/140121-Press-Release-E.pdf
  21. http://www.flypeach.com/Portals/0/PressReleases/2014/141125-Press-Release-EN.pdf
  22. http://www.flypeach.com/Portals/0/PressReleases/2015/150305-Press-Release-E.pdf
  23. http://www.flypeach.com/Portals/0/PressReleases/2013/130731-Press-Release-E1.pdf
  24. http://airlineroute.net/2015/12/08/mm-oka-feb16/
  25. "SilkAir Plans Okinawa Charter in June 2016". airlineroute. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  26. "Skymark Airlines Adds Ibaraki – Okinawa Service from late-April 2016". 7 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  27. "Skymark Airlines Adds Sapporo - Okinawa Seasonal Service Jan - Mar 2015". Airline Route. 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  28. http://www.skynetasia.co.jp/timetable/flightroute/index.html
  29. http://airlineroute.net/2015/05/20/it-oka-jun15/
  30. "V Air to Start Taipei – Okinawa Service from July 2016". airlineroute. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  31. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/130930/vanilla-air-launch-4-routes-including-2-intl-services
  32. http://www.ana.co.jp/cargo/ja/int/catalog/pdf/ana_cargo_service_guide_forwarder.pdf
  33. "全日空「沖縄貨物ハブ」上昇気流 国内外で路線拡充". 日本経済新聞. 24 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.

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