New Chitose Airport

New Chitose opened in July 1988 to replace the adjacent Chitose Airport, a joint-use facility which had served passenger flights since 1963.[6] The airport's IATA airport code was originally SPK. This code was later adopted as a city code to refer to both New Chitose and the smaller Okadama Airport in central Sapporo, which handles commuter flights within Hokkaido.

New Chitose became Japan's first 24-hour airport in 1994. Services between 10 PM and 7 AM are currently limited to six flights per day due to noise alleviation concerns. Four of these slots are currently used by passenger flights to Tokyo while the other two are used by cargo flights.

New Chitose previously had long-haul service to Amsterdam (KLM, 1997–2002), Cairns (Qantas, 1992–1998 and 2004–2007) and Honolulu (JALWays, 1992–2003, Hawaiian Airlines since 2012). Service to Europe resumed when Finnair launched a new weekly flight to Helsinki from 15th December 2019. International services are mainly for transporting tourists from the rest of Asia and for sightseeing and skiing. The area surrounding gates 0 through 2, on the north end of the main terminal, was a sterile area for international flights until the international terminal opened for service on March 26, 2010.

The airport was upgraded with additional private aircraft handling facilities for the 34th G8 summit, held in Hokkaido in 2008.

Due to the airport's sharing of air traffic control with Chitose Air Base, daytime civil operations are limited to 32 takeoffs and landings per hour, and operations by certain foreign aircraft (including Chinese and Russian aircraft) are prohibited on Mondays and Thursdays. These restrictions were scheduled to be eased in March 2017.[7] A 2nd terminal is being built roughly doubling the existing terminal and capacity, scheduled to be complete by August 2019.[8]

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  Airport diagram. Civil flights use the parallel runways to the southeast; JASDF flights use the parallel runways to the northwest.
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  Terminal building
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  Domestic terminal atrium
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  International terminal
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  International departures area
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  F-15J at Chitose Air Base (2010)

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Aerial view of New Chitose Airport

The airport has a semicircular domestic terminal (reminiscent of the semicircular terminals at DFW Airport) with eighteen gates, and a smaller international terminal with six gates. Operating hours for international flights at CTS are restricted by the Japanese government in order to avoid interference with JASDF operations at the adjacent air base. As of April 2012, international flights are permitted on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from noon to 4 pm, and from 5 pm on Friday through 11:59 pm on Sunday.[9]

Passenger

Sapporo Chitose airport passenger destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot operated by Aurora	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
AirAsia X	Kuala Lumpur–International[10]
Air China	Beijing–Capital
Air Do	Kobe, Nagoya–Centrair, Sendai, Tokyo–Haneda
Air Seoul	Seoul–Incheon[11]
All Nippon Airways	Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kobe, Kushiro, Nagoya–Centrair, Okayama, Osaka–Itami, Osaka–Kansai, Shizuoka, Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita Seasonal: Fukushima, Komatsu, Naha, Rishiri, Toyama, Wakkanai
All Nippon Airways operated by ANA Wings	Akita, Aomori, Hakodate, Kushiro, Memanbetsu, Nakashibetsu, Niigata, Sendai, Wakkanai
All Nippon Airways operated by Ibex Airlines	Sendai
Asiana Airlines	Seoul–Incheon
Cathay Pacific	Hong Kong
China Airlines	Kaohsiung, Taipei–Taoyuan
China Eastern Airlines	Nanjing, Shanghai–Pudong
China Southern Airlines	Dalian[12]
Eastar Jet	Busan,[13][14] Seoul–Incheon[15]
EVA Air	Taipei–Taoyuan
Finnair	Helsinki[16][17]
Fuji Dream Airlines	Matsumoto, Yamagata
Hainan Airlines	Hangzhou
Hawaiian Airlines	Honolulu
Hong Kong Airlines	Hong Kong
Japan Airlines	Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Nagoya–Centrair, Osaka–Itami, Osaka–Kansai, Sendai, Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita
Japan Airlines operated by J-Air	Akita, Aomori, Hanamaki, Memanbetsu, Niigata, Sendai Seasonal: Izumo, Tokushima
Jeju Air	Busan,[18] Seoul–Incheon
Jetstar Japan	Nagoya–Centrair, Osaka–Kansai, Tokyo–Narita
Jin Air	Seoul–Incheon
Juneyao Airlines	Nanjing,[19] Shanghai–Pudong
Korean Air	Seoul–Incheon
Malindo Air	Seasonal: Kuala Lumpur–International, Taipei–Taoyuan[20]
Okay Airways	Tianjin[21]
Peach	Fukuoka,[22] Nagoya–Centrair,[23] Naha,[24] Osaka–Kansai, Sendai,[25] Taipei–Taoyuan,[22] Tokyo–Narita
Philippine Airlines	Manila[26]
Qantas	Seasonal: Sydney[27]
Scoot	Singapore, Taipei–Taoyuan
Shandong Airlines	Qingdao[28]
Shenzhen Airlines	Wuxi[29]
Sichuan Airlines	Chengdu[30]
Singapore Airlines	Seasonal: Singapore
Skymark Airlines	Fukuoka, Ibaraki, Kobe, Nagoya–Centrair, Tokyo–Haneda
Spring Airlines	Shanghai–Pudong
Spring Airlines Japan	Tokyo–Narita
Thai AirAsia X	Bangkok–Don Mueang
Thai Airways	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi
Tianjin Airlines	Tianjin
T'way Airlines	Daegu,[31] Seoul–Incheon
Ural Airlines	Vladivostok[32]
XiamenAir	Fuzhou[33]

The domestic terminal contains a 188-room hotel, the Air Terminal Hotel .

China Airlines operates its Sapporo office on the third floor of the airport building.[34]

The airline Hokkaido Air System was at one time headquartered in the New Chitose airport terminal.[35] Now its head office is on the property of Okadama Airport in Higashi-ku, Sapporo.[36]

• On August 5, 2011, Philippine Airlines flight 102, a Boeing 747 was several hours into its Manila to Los Angeles flight, when it made an emergency landing at Sapporo-Chitose after there were reports of smoke in the cabin. The flight landed safely and none of the 449 passengers and crew were injured. [38] [39]
• On February 23, 2016, Japan Airlines Flight 3512, a Boeing 737 about to depart Chitose for Fukuoka Airport, was evacuated in the midst of a snowstorm due to smoke in the cabin caused by an engine problem. Three passengers were injured in the evacuation.[40]

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