Chūbu Centrair International Airport

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Chūbu Centrair International Airport
中部国際空港
Chūbu Kokusai Kūkō

Image:CENTRAIR logo.PNG

IATA: NGO – ICAO: RJGG
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Central Japan International Airport Co., Ltd. (CJIAC)
Operator CJIAC
Serves Nagoya, Japan
Location Tokoname, Aichi, Japan
Elevation AMSL 5 m / 15 ft
Coordinates 34°51′30″N 136°48′19″E / 34.85833°N 136.80528°E / 34.85833; 136.80528
Website www.centrair.jp/en/
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
18/36 3,500 11,483 Concrete/Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

Chūbu Centrair International Airport (中部国際空港 Chūbu Kokusai Kūkō?) (IATA: NGO, ICAO: RJGG) is an airport on an artificial island in Ise Bay, Tokoname City in Aichi Prefecture, south of Nagoya in central Japan.

Centrair is classified as a first class airport and is the main international gateway for the Chūbu ("central") region of Japan. The name "Centrair" (セントレア Sentorea?) is an abbreviation of Central Japan International Airport, an alternate translation used in the English name of the airport's operating company, Central Japan International Airport Co., Ltd. (中部国際空港株式会社 Chūbu Kokusai Kūkō Kabushiki-gaisha?).

Some 11,721,673 people used the airport in the 2006, ranking 8th busiest in the nation. 273,874 tons of cargo was moved in 2005.

For the fiscal year ending in March of 2009, the above figures have dropped considerably to 10.8 million passengers. Combined international and domestic cargo figures totaled just 162,000 tons for the same year, a dramatic drop that can be largely blamed on the substantially weakened manufacturing economy since the fall of 2008 in the Aichi region.[3]

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[edit] History

Chūbu is Japan's third off-shore airport, after Nagasaki Airport and Kansai International Airport, and is also the second airport built in Japan on a manmade island. There are currently 5 offshore airports in Japan, including Kobe Airport and New Kitakyushu Airport.

With much lobbying by local business groups such as Toyota, especially for 24 hour cargo flights, construction started August 2000, with a budget of 768 billion yen (€5.5 billion, US$7.3 billion), but through efficient management nearly 100 billion yen was saved. [1]. PentaOcean Construction was a major contractor.

In addition to cost cutting measures, a number of environmental protection measures had been taken after learning from Kansai International Airport. The artificial island itself was shaped like the rounded letter "D" so that sea currents inside the bay will flow freely. Its shores were partially constructed with natural rocks and sloped to aid sea lifeforms to set up colonies. During the construction a species of little tern occasionally came, so a part of it was selected and set aside to aid nesting.

When the airport opened on February 17, 2005, it took over almost all of the existing Nagoya Airport (now Nagoya Airfield)'s commercial flights, and relieved Tokyo and Kansai areas of cargo shipments. As a replacement for Nagoya Airport, it also inherited its IATA airport code NGO. The airport's opening anticipated the Expo 2005 in Aichi Prefecture. The airport is speculated to have some competition with Shizuoka Airport, which is currently under construction.

Japan Airlines (JAL) was the first airline to land an aircraft at Centrair: A Boeing 767-300ER, carrying around 206 passengers onboard a charter flight from Saipan to commemorate the opening of Centrair.[4]

[edit] Future

The airport has undertaken airport ramp expansion in 7 locations starting in 2006, scheduled to be done in 2010. A second 4000 meter runway is planned, adding an extra 3 km2 of area, 300 meters from the existing runway. This project is scheduled to be funded in 2008, costing 2 trillion yen. (about 17 billion USD).

There is considerable debate about the need for a second runway given reductions in both passenger numbers and aircraft movements in the last two years.

[edit] Main terminal

Gates at Centrair
Main hall of arrival, at the conjuncture of the "T"-shaped building

The main terminal is shaped like a "T," with three piers radiating from a central ticketing area. This design keeps check-in distances below 300 meters. Originally, designers planned to make the main terminal resemble an origami crane from above, but this plan was abandoned due to cost.

Arrivals are processed on the second floor, and departures on the third. The lower level is used for maintenance, catering, and other ground operations, as well as for passenger buses to hardstands in the middle of the airport ramp.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Passenger airlines (International)

Airlines Destinations
Air China Beijing-Capital, Chongqing, Shanghai-Pudong
All Nippon Airways Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong
Asiana Airlines Seoul-Incheon
Cathay Pacific Hong Kong, Taipei-Taoyuan
China Airlines Kaohsiung, Taipei-Taoyuan
China Eastern Airlines Beijing-Capital, Qingdao, Shanghai-Pudong, Xi'an
China Southern Airlines Changchun, Dalian, Guangzhou, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenyang
Continental Airlines operated by Continental Micronesia Guam
EVA Air Taipei-Taoyuan
Finnair Helsinki
Garuda Indonesia Denpasar/Bali
Japan Airlines Guangzhou, Paris-Charles de Gaulle [ends 24 October][5], Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Taipei-Taoyuan, Tianjin
JALways Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Honolulu
Korean Air Busan, Jeju, Seoul-Incheon
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Northwest Airlines1 Detroit, Guam, Manila, Saipan
Philippine Airlines Manila
Singapore Airlines Singapore
Thai Airways International Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi
Vietnam Airlines Hanoi

1: An additional "international" flight between Nagoya and Tokyo-Narita allows connections to other Northwest destinations in Asia and the United States.

[edit] Passenger airlines (Domestic)

Airlines Destinations
ANA Group Akita, Asahikawa, Fukuoka, Hakodate, Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Matsuyama, Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Naha, Niigata, Oita, Ozora (Memanbetsu), Sapporo-Chitose, Sendai, Tokushima, Tokyo-Narita, Wannanai [seasonal], Yonago
Japan Airlines Aomori, Hanamaki/Iwate, Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Kushiro, Naha, Sapporo-Chitose, Sendai, Tokyo-Narita
Japan Transocean Air Ishigaki

[edit] Cargo airlines

[edit] Charges

  • Landing fee: 1,660 yen per tonne
  • Parking fee: Free (6 hours), 200 yen per tonne (every 24 hours)
  • Boarding bridge usage charge: 13,500 yen per departing flight
  • Baggage handling system usage charge: 35,400 yen per departing flight
  • Passenger service facilities charge[6]
  • International flights
2,500 yen per departing passenger
1,250 yen per passenger with a child discount ticket
  • Domestic flights
300 yen per departing passenger
150 yen per passenger with a child discount ticket
300 yen per arriving passenger
150 yen per passenger with a child discount ticket

[edit] Access

[edit] Train

Meitetsu's μSky Limited Express (right) and Limited Express (left)

Central Japan International Airport Station, the train station for Centrair is located on the Meitetsu Airport Line operated by Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu). The fastest "μSky Limited Express" service connects the airport to Meitetsu Nagoya Station in 28 minutes. Meitetsu Nagoya is adjacent to JR Nagoya Station, allowing transfers to Shinkansen high-speed trains bound for Kyoto and Shizuoka, as well as JR, Meitetsu, and Kintetsu local trains, and the Nagoya Subway.

[edit] Bus

Scheduled bus service is available to a number of locations throughout central Japan, including:

  • Handa: 40 min., ¥750
  • East Nagoya(Fujigaoka): 1 hr. 10 min., ¥1,400
  • Toyota: 1 hr. 10 min., ¥1,700
  • Toyohashi: 1 hr. 40 min., ¥2,200
  • Yokkaichi: 1 hr. 25 min., ¥1,000
  • Hamamatsu: 1 hr. 55 min., ¥3,000
  • Shizuoka: 2 hr. 50 min., ¥4,000

[edit] Ferry

Three high-speed ferry services link Centrair to the west side of Ise Bay. One ferry connects to the passenger terminal in Tsu, a 40-minute trip costing ¥1,890. Another ferry links Matsusaka to Tokoname, taking 45 minute trip costing ¥2,100.

Opposite the airport island,

Entrance to Centrair's 4th Floor Sky Town

[edit] Car

A toll road links Centrair and the mainland; the toll from central Nagoya is ¥1,800. Taxi fare to central Nagoya is approximately ¥12,000.

[edit] Shopping

Shops in traditional Japanese style

Centrair features the 4th Floor Sky Town shopping center, accessible to the general public, with 61 shops and restaurants. organized into two "streets," Renga-dori and Chochin-yokocho. The Chochin-yokocho shops are individually themed to have an authentic Japanese look.

There is a Duty Free area in the international departure area on the 3rd floor as well.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Airport information for RJGG at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.. Source: DAFIF.
  2. ^ Airport information for NGO at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
  3. ^ http://www.cjiac.co.jp/english/eng_cs/Centrair%20Traffic%20Record%20(FY2008).pdf Source: Centrair 2008 Statistics
  4. ^ Feb 10, 2005 GOODBYE & AND THANK YOU KOMAKI AIRPORT
  5. ^ http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/jal-to-cut-chubu-paris-flights-in-october
  6. ^ How much is the Passenger Service Facilities Charge (PSFC)?


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