New Chitose Airport (新千歳空港 Shin-Chitose Kūkō) is an airport in Chitose, Japan near Sapporo. It has the IATA Airport Code CTS. By land area, it is the largest airport in Japan.

Chitose was Japan's first 24-hour airport (1994). During the 1990's, it was touted as an international gateway and had regular flights to Europe and Oceania. Today, its international services are limited to East Asia.

On July 24, 1999, All Nippon Airways Flight 61, which was flying from Tokyo International Airport in Tokyo, Japan to Chitose, was hijacked shortly after takeoff. The hijacker killed the pilot before he was subdued. The Boeing 747 landed safely.

The airport has a single semicircular terminal building (similar to the terminals at DFW Airport), which handles domestic and international flights. JR operates rapid service trains to Sapporo Station , which take half an hour and cost about ¥1,000. Trains and buses to other cities in Hokkaido are also available.

Airlines and destinations

• Air Do (Tokyo International Airport)
• Air Nippon (Fukushima Airport , Hiroshima Airport, Kagoshima Airport, Matsuyama Airport , Memanbetsu Airport , Nemuro-Nakashibetsu Airport , Niigata Airport , Rishiri Airport , Wakkanai Airport )
• All Nippon Airways (Chubu Centrair International Airport, Fukuoka Airport, Kansai International Airport, Komatsu Airport , Narita International Airport, Okayama Airport , Osaka International Airport, Sendai Airport , Tokyo International Airport, Toyama Airport)
• Cathay Pacific Airways (Hong Kong International Airport)
• China Eastern Airlines (Pudong International Airport)
• China Southern Airlines (Shenyang International Airport )
• Continental Micronesia (Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport)
• EVA Air (Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport)
• Hokkaido Air System (Kushiro Airport )
• J-Air (Osaka International Airport)
• Japan Airlines (Akita Airport , Aomori Airport , Chubu Centrair International Airport,Fukuoka Airport, Hanamaki Airport , Hiroshima Airport, Kansai International Airport, Memanbetsu Airport , Misawa Air Base, Naha Airport, Niigata Airport , Narita International Airport, Osaka International Airport, Sendai Airport , Shinshu-Matsumoto Airport , Tokyo International Airport)
• JAL Express (Sendai Airport )
• Korean Air (Incheon International Airport)
• Sakhalin Airlines (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport)

The Chitose-Tokyo route is the world's busiest air route, handling over 40 round-trip widebody flights a day. It is about 90 minutes by air from Chitose to Tokyo.

External links

• New Chitose Airport Homepage