Nagoya Airport: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Nagoya Airport (Japanese: 名古屋空港) is an airport located near Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, Japan, in the cities of Komaki and Kasugai. It is sometimes referred to as Komaki International Airport. Its IATA Airport Code is NGO. Under Japanese law it is classified as a second class airport.

During the 1980s and early 1990s, NGO was a busy international airport because of overflow from Japan's other international airports, New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport) near Tokyo and Osaka International Airport (Itami Airport) near Osaka. Since the opening of Kansai International Airport in 1994, the airport's main traffic source has been the nearby automotive industry, causing carriers such as United Airlines and Delta Air Lines to stop flying to Nagoya. Some discount holiday flights still operate from NGO, drawing passengers from the Kansai region.

In addition to its lack of traffic, the airport is also hampered by its location in a residential area of Aichi prefecture, limiting the number of flights that can use the airport, as well as the hours in which they can fly. Because of this, a new airport, Chubu International Airport, is being built on an island south of Nagoya. All of NGO's commercial flights will move to Chubu on February 17, 2005, and the old airport will then become a general aviation facility. [1]

Airlines and destinations

Domestic

• Air Nippon
• All Nippon Airways
• J-Air
• Japan Airlines (Flights within Japan)
• Japan Air System
• Nakanihon Air Service

International

• Air Canada (Vancouver)
• Air China (Beijing)
• Air New Zealand (Auckland)
• Asiana Airlines (Seoul)
• Australian Airlines (Sydney via Cairns)
• Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong, Taipei)
• China Airlines (Taipei)
• China Eastern (Dalian)
• China Southern (Shanghai)
• Continental Micronesia (Guam)
• Garuda Indonesia (Denpasar)
• JALways (Guam, Honolulu)
• Japan Airlines (Bangkok, Beijing, Busan, Guam, Hong Kong via Taipei, Honolulu, Seoul, Shanghai, Tianjin)
• Japan Asia Airways (Taipei)
• Korean Air (Busan, Jeju, Seoul)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
• Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
• Northwest Airlines (Detroit, Manila, Saipan)
• Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
• Thai Airways International (Bangkok)