Ishigaki Airport
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| Ishigaki Airport 石垣空港 Ishigaki Kūkō |
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| IATA: ISG – ICAO: ROIG | |||
| Summary | |||
| Operator | Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport | ||
| Location | Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 93 ft / 28 m | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 04/22 | 1,500 | 4,920 | Asphalt |
| Source: DAFIF[1][2] | |||
Ishigaki Airport (石垣空港 Ishigaki Kūkō?), (IATA: ISG, ICAO: ROIG) is a third-class airport located in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The airport fields flights to major cities on the Japanese mainland as well as destinations throughout Okinawa Prefecture and the Yaeyama Islands.
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[edit] History
The airport was opened in 1943 for military use, and converted to a civilian airport in 1956. The runway was extended from 1200 meters to 1500m in 1968, allowing YS-11 aircraft to land.
[edit] Future
The airport presently serves about 1.8 million passengers a year, making it the busiest third-class airport in Japan[3], and traffic has been growing steadily as the Yaeyama Islands have become a popular tourist destination. However, the current runway cannot accommodate planes larger than a Boeing 737, and the present site is not suitable for expansion due to urban encroachment. The airport also does not have facilities for handling standard cargo containers.
To meet these needs, New Ishigaki Airport (新石垣空港 Shin-Ishigaki Kūkō?) is under construction on the eastern side of the island. Plans for the new airport date back to 1979, when the prefectural government planned to build a 2500-meter runway by the shore at Shiraho (白保).
The new airport will have a 2000-meter runway that can support Boeing 767-class planes, expandable to 2500 meters for jumbo operations. Construction started in October 2006, for completion by 2013.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- All Nippon Airways (Naha)
- Japan Airlines
- Japan Transocean Air (Osaka-Kansai, Kobe, Miyakojima, Naha, Tokyo-Haneda, Yonaguni)
- Ryukyu Air Commuter (Miyako, Yonaguni)
- Japan Transocean Air (Osaka-Kansai, Kobe, Miyakojima, Naha, Tokyo-Haneda, Yonaguni)
[edit] References
- ^ Airport information for ROIG at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Airport information for ISG at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Heisei 17 nen Kūkō Kanri Joukyou Chousho (Annal Reports of Airports management 2005) (PDF) (Japanese) 83 (October 2006). Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
