Amami Airport

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{{Infobox airport

| name = Amami Airport

| nativename-a = 奄美空港

| nativename-r = Amami Kūkō

| image = Amami Airport.jpg

| image-width = 300

| IATA = ASJ

| ICAO = RJKA

| type = Public

| owner =

| operator = Government

| city-served = Amami Ōshima (Amami Island), Japan

| location =

| coordinates = {{coord|28|25|51|N|129|42|45|E|region:JP|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map = Japan Kagoshima Prefecture#Japan

| pushpin_label = RJKA

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Japan

| elevation-f = 14

| elevation-m = 4

| website =

| metric-rwy = y

| r1-number = 03/21

| r1-length-m = 2,000

| r1-length-f = 6,562

| r1-surface = Asphalt concrete

| stat-year = 2015

| stat1-header = Passengers

| stat1-data = 676,601

| stat2-header = Cargo (metric tonnes)

| stat2-data = 1,097

| stat3-header = Aircraft movement

| stat3-data = 15,292

| footnotes = Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism{{cite web|title=Amami Oshima Airport|url=http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001141840.pdf|publisher=Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism|access-date=7 January 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021205147/http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001141840.pdf|archive-date=21 October 2016}}

}}

{{nihongo|Amami Airport|奄美空港|Amami Kūkō}} {{airport codes|ASJ|RJKA}} is an airport located {{convert|21.9|km|abbr=on}} east northeast of Amami, a city on Amami Ōshima (Amami Island) in the Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan.[https://aisjapan.mlit.go.jp/ AIS Japan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722105350/https://aisjapan.mlit.go.jp/ |date=2011-07-22 }}

History

Amami Airport was opened as {{nihongo|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."[https://web.archive.org/web/20060629123927/http://www.jal.co.jp/en/dom/airport/japan/asj/asj_00.html Amami-Oshima Airport]." Japan Airlines. June 29, 2006. Retrieved on May 25, 2009. 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 and many parts of the former airport has since become a park.

Airlines and destinations

=Passenger=

{{Airport-dest-list

| J-Air | Fukuoka, Kagoshima

| Japan Air Commuter | Kagoshima, Kikai, Naha, Okinoerabu, Tokunoshima, Yoron{{Cite web|url=http://www.synapse.ne.jp/aatb/|title=Site is undergoing maintenance}}

| Japan Airlines | Osaka–Itami, Tokyo–Haneda

| Peach | Osaka–Kansai, Tokyo–Narita

| Skymark Airlines | Kagoshima

}}

Statistics

{{Airport-Statistics|iata=ASJ}}

References

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