Centrair - new offshore airport @ Nagoya
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Centrair - new offshore airport @ Nagoya
Is the new Centrair / Chubu International Airport off the coast near Nagoya still going ahead for an opening in February? Website doesn't seem to have changed recently:
http://www.cjiac.co.jp/foreign/english/index.html
Presumably Nagoya Airport (Komaki) will stay open for regional services, like Osaka did when KIX opened?
Does anyone know if airlines such as BA have looked at Centrair? I think they used to fly to Nagoya in the 90s, and presumably Centrair would have less operational constraints (no noise restrictions, 3,500m runway), or would it be too pricey for them to use? Would that have kept them out of KIX too?
And just when I thought Japan had enough off-shore airports, it seems they are building another one in Kobe:
http://www.city.kobe.jp/cityoffice/17/020/airport.htm
Presumably these all keep the nimbys and the engineers happy, but I can't see the local FR equivalents ever being too pleased about the landing charges.
http://www.cjiac.co.jp/foreign/english/index.html
Presumably Nagoya Airport (Komaki) will stay open for regional services, like Osaka did when KIX opened?
Does anyone know if airlines such as BA have looked at Centrair? I think they used to fly to Nagoya in the 90s, and presumably Centrair would have less operational constraints (no noise restrictions, 3,500m runway), or would it be too pricey for them to use? Would that have kept them out of KIX too?
And just when I thought Japan had enough off-shore airports, it seems they are building another one in Kobe:
http://www.city.kobe.jp/cityoffice/17/020/airport.htm
Presumably these all keep the nimbys and the engineers happy, but I can't see the local FR equivalents ever being too pleased about the landing charges.
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As far as I an aware Centrair will be open on time and UNDER budget (pauses to faint). The techincal aspects of the island construction were less complex and less expensive (shallower water and firmer seabed than KIX) than allowed for in the design.
Airport fees will be a significant amount less than NRT and KIX, which combined with the longer runway then NGO, has already attracted several new operators eg American Airlines. KIX at has reduced it's own fees in an effort to compete.
I believe NGO will close to all passenger traffic though there are discussions ongoing to permit up to regional jet size aircraft (and turboprops) to continue to use the newer of the two terminals for domestic services (primarily HND). NGO will stay open anyway for the self-defence force base.
Kobe Airport is a large white animal with a big trunk and large flapping ears of a project driven forward by local government without much public support. The runway is only long enough for short domestic services which are already fully covered from Osaka Itami a few miles away. Services seem likely to be limited to a few to HND and the like. Their only hope is that more domestic services are forced to move to KIX from ITM leaving more passengers from the Kobe area unwilling to travel the long distance to KIX, though it will just as likely result in an increase in loads on the extremely fast and efficient shinkansen services from Shin-Kobe station to Tokyo in about 3 hours.
We have no RYR equivalents here in Japan. Flights and shinkansen services from Osaka to Tokyo Haneda cost at least 50 pounds sterling one way and we have little prospect of that changing. The lack of landing slots, termnal gates and high operating costs means new operators cannot get access or offer significantly lower prices here in Japan.
PTH
As far as I an aware Centrair will be open on time and UNDER budget (pauses to faint). The techincal aspects of the island construction were less complex and less expensive (shallower water and firmer seabed than KIX) than allowed for in the design.
Airport fees will be a significant amount less than NRT and KIX, which combined with the longer runway then NGO, has already attracted several new operators eg American Airlines. KIX at has reduced it's own fees in an effort to compete.
I believe NGO will close to all passenger traffic though there are discussions ongoing to permit up to regional jet size aircraft (and turboprops) to continue to use the newer of the two terminals for domestic services (primarily HND). NGO will stay open anyway for the self-defence force base.
Kobe Airport is a large white animal with a big trunk and large flapping ears of a project driven forward by local government without much public support. The runway is only long enough for short domestic services which are already fully covered from Osaka Itami a few miles away. Services seem likely to be limited to a few to HND and the like. Their only hope is that more domestic services are forced to move to KIX from ITM leaving more passengers from the Kobe area unwilling to travel the long distance to KIX, though it will just as likely result in an increase in loads on the extremely fast and efficient shinkansen services from Shin-Kobe station to Tokyo in about 3 hours.
We have no RYR equivalents here in Japan. Flights and shinkansen services from Osaka to Tokyo Haneda cost at least 50 pounds sterling one way and we have little prospect of that changing. The lack of landing slots, termnal gates and high operating costs means new operators cannot get access or offer significantly lower prices here in Japan.
PTH
