Gimhae International Airport
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| Gimhae International Airport 김해국제공항 金海國際空港 Gimhae Gukje Gonghang Kimhae Kukche Konghang |
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| IATA: PUS – ICAO: RKPK | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Military/Public | ||
| Operator | Korea Airports Corporation | ||
| Location | Busan | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 6 ft / 2 m | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 18L/36R | 2,745 | 9,007 | Asphalt |
| 18R/36L | 3,200 | 10,499 | Concrete |
| Statistics (2007) | |||
| Aircraft movements | 58,119 | ||
| Passengers | 7,403,262 | ||
| Sources: World Aero Data[1] Korea Airports Corporation[2] |
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Gimhae International Airport (Hangul: 김해 국제 공항hanja:金海國際空港; Revised Romanization of Korean: Gimhae Gukje Gonghang; McCune-Reischauer: Kimhae Kukche Konghang) (formerly Kimhae International Airport) (IATA: PUS, ICAO: RKPK) is located on the western end of Busan in South Korea. It opened in 1976. A new international terminal opened on October 31, 2007.[3]
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[edit] Airlines and destinations
[edit] International
- Air China (Beijing, Hangzhou)
- Asiana Airlines (Beijing, Fukuoka, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Manila, Osaka-Kansai, Saipan, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenyang, Weihai)
- Cebu Pacific (Cebu)
- China Eastern Airlines (Shanghai-Pudong, Yanji, Yantai)
- China Southern Airlines (Dalian, Guangzhou, Shenyang)
- Dragonair (Hong Kong)
- Japan Airlines (Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)
- Korean Air (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing, Fukuoka, Guam, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Manila, Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Qingdao, Sapporo-Chitose, Shanghai-Pudong, Tokyo-Narita, Xi'an)
- Lufthansa (Munich)+
- Mandarin Airlines (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
- Northwest Airlines (Tokyo-Narita)
- Philippine Airlines (Manila)
- PMTair (Siem Reap)
- SAT Airlines (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
- Shandong Airlines (Qingdao)
- Shanghai Airlines (Shanghai-Pudong)
- SkyStar Airways (Phuket)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
- TransAsia Airways (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
- Vietnam Airlines (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City)
- Viva Macau (Macau)
- Vladivostok Air (Vladivostok)
+Though Lufthansa's flight from/to Munich stops in Seoul, passengers cannot purchase tickets to fly Lufthansa between Busan & Seoul.
Malaysia Airlines flew to Gimhae International Airport in the mid 1990s.
[edit] Domestic
- Asiana Airlines (Jeju, Seoul-Gimpo & Incheon)
- Jeju Air (Jeju)
- Korean Air (Jeju, Seoul-Gimpo & Incheon, Yangyang)
- Yeongnam Air (Jeju, Seoul-Gimpo) [begins March, 2008]
[edit] Ground transportation
The Busan-Gimhae Light Rail Transit line, scheduled to open in 2010, will connect the airport to the Busan Subway network and the city center of Gimhae.
[edit] Incidents and accidents
- On January 31, 2001: Japan Airlines Flight 958, bound for Narita International Airport from Busan, nearly collided with another Japan Airlines aircraft. The other aircraft, a Boeing 747, suddenly dived and avoided the Narita-bound DC-10. See 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident
- On April 15, 2002, a Boeing 767-200ER jet, operating as Air China Flight 129 from Beijing to Pusan, crashed into a hill while trying to land at Gimhae during inclement weather, killing 128 of the 166 people on board.
- On August 12, 2007, at 9:37 local time, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft, operated by Jeju Air, skidded off the runway at Gimhae International Airport, Busan, injuring 6 people and damaging the aircraft, particularly the left propeller.[4][5]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Airport information for RKPK at World Aero Data
- ^ Air Traffic by Airport
- ^ 김해국제공항 ‘하늘길 두 배로’. Retrieved on 2007-11-06.
- ^ Jeju Air skids of runway in South Korea Flight Global 13/08/07
- ^ "Jeju Air Dash 8 skids off runway", Flight International, 21-27 August 2007, p. 18.
