GIMHAE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

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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') is located on the western end of Busan in South Korea. It opened in 1976. A new international terminal will be completed sometime in 2007.
In 2006, 7,071,037 passengers utilized the airport.^[1]

Contents

Airlines and destinations

Incidents and accidents

See also

References

External links

Airlines and destinations

★ Air China (Beijing, Hangzhou)

★ Air Macau (charter to Macau)

★ Asiana Airlines (Beijing, Fukuoka, Hangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Jeju, Manila, Osaka-Kansai, Saipan (starts 23 september, 2007), Seoul-Gimpo & Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenyang)

★ Cathay Pacific

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★ Dragonair (Hong Kong)

★ Cebu Pacific (Cebu)

★ China Airlines

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★ Mandarin Airlines (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan) [starts 30 October, 2007]

★ China Eastern Airlines (Shanghai-Pudong)

★ China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou)

★ Far Eastern Air Transport (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)

★ Jeju Air (Jeju, Seoul-Gimpo)

★ Japan Airlines (Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)

★ Korean Air (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Fukuoka, Guam, Jeju, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Manila, Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Phuket, Qingdao, Sapporo-Chitose, Shanghai-Pudong, Seoul-Gimpo & Incheon, Tokyo-Narita, Wonju, Xi'an, Yangyang)

★ Lufthansa (Munich)

★ Northwest Airlines (Tokyo-Narita)

★ Philippine Airlines (Manila)

★ PMTair (Siem Reap)

★ SAT Airlines (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)

★ Shandong Airlines (Qingdao)

★ Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)

★ TransAsia Airways (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)

★ Vietnam Airlines (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City)

★ Vladivostok Air (Vladivostok)
Malaysia Airlines flew briefly to Gimhae International Airport in the mid 1990s.

Incidents and accidents

★ 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 12 August 2007, at 9:37 local time, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft skidded off the runway at Gimhae International Airport, Busan, injuring 6 people and damaging the aircraft, particularly the left propeller.^[2][3]

See also

★ List of Korea-related topics

★ Transportation in South Korea

References

1. Korean airport statistics
2. Jeju Air skids of runway in South Korea Flight Global 13/08/07
3. Jeju Air Dash 8 skids off runway

External links

★ Gimhae International Airport English homepage

★ Information about Gimhae International Airport

★ english.busan.go.kr/culture_tourism/03_03_04.htm Busan tourism

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