Kaohsiung International Airport

Coordinates: 22°34′37″N 120°21′00″E / 22.57694°N 120.35000°E / 22.57694; 120.35000
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Kaohsiung International Airport

高雄國際航空站
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorCivil Aeronautics Administration
ServesKaohsiung
LocationSiaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Opened1 July 1965; 58 years ago (1965-07-01)
Hub for
Elevation AMSL9 m / 30 ft
Coordinates22°34′37″N 120°21′00″E / 22.57694°N 120.35000°E / 22.57694; 120.35000
Map
KHH is located in Kaohsiung
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Location of airport in Kaohsiung
KHH is located in Taiwan
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Location of airport in Taiwan
KHH is located in Southeast Asia
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Location of airport in East Asia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27[a] 3,150 10,335 Concrete
Statistics (2023)
Number of passengers4,225,403 Increase241%
Aircraft Movements40,516 Increase96.05%
Total cargo (metric tonnes)40,018.4 Decrease13.59%
Source: Civil Aeronautics Administration[1]
Kaohsiung International Airport
Traditional Chinese高雄國際機場
Simplified Chinese高雄国际机场
Siaogang International Airport
Traditional Chinese小港國際機場
Simplified Chinese小港国际机场

Kaohsiung International Airport (高雄國際機場[b]) (IATA: KHH, ICAO: RCKH) is a medium-sized international airport in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, also known as Siaogang Airport (小港機場; Xiǎogǎng jīchǎng). With nearly seven million passengers in 2018, it is the second busiest airport in Taiwan, after Taoyuan.[1] The airport has a single east–west runway and two terminals: one international and one domestic.

History[edit]

Early years[edit]

Originally built as an Imperial Japanese Army Air Squadron base in 1942 during the Japanese rule era of Taiwan,[2] Kaohsiung Airport retained its military purpose when the Republic of China government first took control of Taiwan in 1945. Due to the need for civil transportation in southern Taiwan, it was demilitarised and converted into a domestic civil airport in 1965, and further upgraded to the status an international airport in 1969, with regular international flights starting in 1972.[3]

During the 1970s and 1980s, direct international flights were rare at the airport, with Hong Kong and Tokyo being the only two destinations.[citation needed] Since the early 1990s, dedicated connection flights to Taipei were inaugurated, bringing convenience to the south as Taipei had more international flights. These contributed to a steady growth in airport passenger and flight movements. A new terminal dedicated to international flights was opened in 1997.[4]

In summer 1998, EVA Air opened a direct flight between Kaohsiung and Los Angeles, but it was discontinued only after six months.[5] Northwest Airlines operated the Kaohsiung–Osaka route from 1999 to 2001, and the Tokyo route from 2002 to 2003. These two routes were separately suspended due to the low load caused by the September 11 attacks and SARS outbreak. [citation needed]

Development since the 2000s[edit]

After Taiwan High Speed Rail, the high speed rail line that runs between Taipei and Kaohsiung along Taiwan's western plains, began operation in January 2007, Kaohsiung Airport suffered large reduction in passenger and flight movements. The convenience of Taiwan High Speed Rail and record-high costs of jet fuel were eating up most load factors to Taipei, causing the eventual cessation of flights between cities on Taiwan's western plains. The last domestic flight between Taipei Songshan and Kaohsiung landed on 31 August 2012. The dedicated international connecting flight between Kaohsiung and Taoyuan stopped on 1 July 2017, after over thirty years of operation.

Kaohsiung Airport has added direct flights to China's Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, and has since added flights to Shenzhen, Shanghai, Fuzhou, Changsha, Beijing, Kunming, Zhengzhou, Guilin, Qingdao and Chengdu.

Since 2009, the number of passengers has been recovering due to the opening of regular scheduled cross-strait flights to China, as well as the rise of low cost carriers.[6]

Terminals[edit]

Kaohsiung International Airport terminal building
Kaohsiung International Airport control tower

Kaohsiung International Airport has two terminals – domestic and international. They are connected by a corridor.

The domestic terminal was built in 1965 when the facility was first opened as a civilian airport. [citation needed] Through the years, it has undergone small expansions and improvements, but jet bridges have never been added. (The domestic terminal primarily serves smaller planes that do not require jet bridges.) The current domestic terminal building also served international flights before the opening of the new international terminal. The international terminal opened in 1997 and all gates have jet bridges. It serves all international and cross-strait flights to China. The floor area for the international terminal is three times more than that of the domestic one.

Airlines and destinations[edit]

AirlinesDestinationsRef
AirAsia Kuala Lumpur–International [7]
Air Busan Busan [8]
Air Macau Macau [9]
Batik Air Malaysia Kuala Lumpur–International, Nagoya–Centrair [10]
Cathay Pacific Hong Kong
China Airlines Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi,[11] Hong Kong,[12] Manila, Naha, Osaka–Kansai,[13] Seoul–Gimpo,[14] Seoul–Incheon,[15] Shanghai–Pudong, Shenzhen,[16] Singapore, [17] Tokyo–Narita[18]
China Eastern Airlines Nanjing,[19] Wuhan
China Southern Airlines Wuhan
Daily Air Qimei, Wang-an
EVA Air Fukuoka, Hong Kong,[20] Macau, Osaka–Kansai,[21] Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong, Tokyo–Narita[22]
HK Express Hong Kong
Japan Airlines Tokyo–Narita
Jeju Air Seoul–Gimpo [23]
Juneyao Air Shanghai–Pudong
Mandarin Airlines Hualien, Kinmen, Penghu, Xiamen
Peach Osaka–Kansai
Philippines AirAsia Manila [24]
Spring Airlines Shanghai–Pudong [25]
Thai AirAsia Bangkok–Don Mueang, Tokyo–Narita (begins 16 June 2024)[26] [27]
Thai Airways International Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi [28]
Tigerair Taiwan Da Nang,[29] Fukuoka,[30] Ibaraki,[31] Macau, Nagoya–Centrair,[32] Naha, Osaka–Kansai, Seoul–Gimpo,[33] Tokyo–Narita[34]
T'way Air Seoul–Gimpo (begins 21 June 2024),[35] Seoul–Incheon [36]
Uni Air Kinmen, Penghu
VietJet Air Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Phu Quoc (begins 14 June 2024)[37]
Vietnam Airlines Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City
Charter: Can Tho[citation needed]
XiamenAir Fuzhou,[38] Xiamen [39]

Statistics[edit]

Annual passenger traffic at KHH airport. See Wikidata query.
Operations and Statistics [40]
Year Passenger
movements 		Airfreight
movements
(tons) 		Aircraft
movement
2014 5,397,021 68,767.3 51,681
2015 6,001,487 63,030.8 55,685
2016 6,416,681 71,447.8 57,446
2017 6,479,183 81,555.3 51,768
2018 6,973,845 73,541.6 60,155
2019 7,506,753 64,676.8 64,015
2020 1,891,762 46,506.3 26,475
2021 836,594 57,087.3 16,317
2022 1,238,674 46,312.5 20,666
2023 4,225,403 40,018.4 40,516
Busiest international routes from Kaohsiung (2023) [41][42]
Rank Airport Passengers Carriers
1 Hong Kong Hong Kong 674,849 Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, HK express
2 Japan Osaka–Kansai 336,865 China Airlines, EVA Air, Tigerair Taiwan, Peach, Scoot
3 Japan Tokyo–Narita 322,793 China Airlines, EVA Air, Tigerair Taiwan, Japan Airlines, Peach
4 South Korea Seoul–Incheon 234,470 China Airlines, EVA Air, Jeju Air, T'way Air
5 Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City 196,369 Vietnam Airlines, VietJet Air
6 Thailand Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi 174,942 Thai Airways International
7 Vietnam Hanoi 172,503 VietJet Air
8 Macau Macau 122,573 EVA Air, Tigerair Taiwan, Air Macau
9 China Shanghai–Pudong 113,492 China Airlines, EVA Air, Juneyao Air, Spring Airlines
10 Vietnam Da Nang 87,127 Bamboo Airways, Tigerair Taiwan
Domestic routes from Kaohsiung (2023) [41][43]
Rank Airport Passengers Carriers
1 Penghu 848,972
2 Kinmen 407,277
3 Hualien 19,377
4 Qimei 16,318
5 Wang-an 1,718

Accidents and incidents[edit]

  • On 23 July 2014, TransAsia Airways Flight 222 took off from Kaohsiung International Airport bound for Magong. The ATR 72-500 crashed into buildings during a second attempt to land in bad weather. Of the 58 people on board, only 10 survived. 5 people on the ground were injured and the crash caused a fire involving two homes.[citation needed]

Ground transportation[edit]

See also[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ ex-09L/27R
  2. ^ Official name in Chinese is 高雄國際航空站

References[edit]

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  45. ^ Formosa Airlines Archived 19 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Baaa-acro.com.

External links[edit]

Media related to Kaohsiung International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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