Amami Airport
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Amami Airport 奄美空港 Amami Kūkō | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Government | ||||||||||
| Serves | Amami Ōshima (Amami Island), Japan | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 14 ft / 4 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 28°25′51″N 129°42′45″E / 28.43083°N 129.71250°E | ||||||||||
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  RJKA Location in Japan  RJKA RJKA (Japan) | |||||||||||
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Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism[1] | |||||||||||
Amami Airport (奄美空港, Amami Kūkō) (IATA: ASJ, ICAO: RJKA) is an airport located 21.9 km (13.6 mi) east northeast of Amami, a city on Amami Ōshima (Amami Island) in the Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan.[2]
History
[edit]Amami Airport was opened as Amami Oshima Airport (奄美大島空港, Amami-Ōshima Kūkō) on June 1, 1964, with a 1240-meter runway about 2 kilometers southwest of its current position.[3] A new airport with a runway of 2000 meters to accept jet aircraft was opened on 10 July 1988, at which time the former airport was closed. The remnants of the old airport can still be seen via satellite images.
Airlines and destinations
[edit]Passenger
[edit]Statistics
[edit] | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Annual passenger traffic at ASJ airport.
See Wikidata query.
References
[edit]- ^ "Amami Oshima Airport" (PDF). Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ^ AIS Japan Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Amami-Oshima Airport." Japan Airlines. June 29, 2006. Retrieved on May 25, 2009.
- ^ "Site is undergoing maintenance".
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amami Airport.
- Amami Airport (Kagoshima Prefecture) (in Japanese)
- Amami Airport Guide from Japan Airlines
- Current weather for RJKA at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for ASJ at Aviation Safety Network
