New Tanegashima Airport Explained

New Tanegashima Airport
Iata:TNE
Icao:RJFG
Type:Public
Operator:Government
Location:Tanegashima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Coordinates:30.605°N 130.9917°W
Pushpin Map:Japan Kagoshima Prefecture#Japan
Pushpin Label:RJFG
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Japan
Elevation-F:768
Metric-Rwy:y
R1-Number:13/31
R1-Length-M:2,000
R1-Surface:Asphalt concrete
Stat-Year:2015
Stat1-Header:Passengers
Stat1-Data:74,633
Stat2-Header:Cargo (metric tonnes)
Stat2-Data:139
Stat3-Header:Aircraft movement
Stat3-Data:3,359
Footnotes:Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism[1]

, also known as Tanegashima Airport,[2] is located in Nakatane, on Tanegashima, one of the Ōsumi Islands in southern Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

The original Tanegashima Airport was opened on 27 July 1962, at a site approximately southeast of the present airport. Although its runway was extended from to in 1973, it was not suitable to handle jet aircraft, and was closed on 16 March 2006, the day that the New Tanegashima Airport, with a runway, was opened.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tanegashima Airport. Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. 2017-01-07. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161021205147/http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001141840.pdf. 2016-10-21.
  2. Web site: Tanegashima Airport. Japan Airlines. https://web.archive.org/web/20240630230055/https://www.jal.co.jp/jp/en/dom/airport/tne/. 2024-06-30. live.