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Noto Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Location
  
Wajima, Ishikawa

07/25
  
2,000

Code
  
NTQ

Phone
  
+81 768-26-2000

Operator
  
Ministry of Transport

Elevation AMSL
  
718 ft / 219 m

6,562
  
Asphalt concrete

Elevation
  
219 m

Noto Airport

Address
  
10-11-1 Miimachi Sue, Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture 929-2372, Japan

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Noto Airport (能登空港, Noto Kūkō) (IATA: NTQ, ICAO: RJNW), also unofficially known as Wajima Airport (輪島空港, Wajima Kūkō) is a domestic airport located 6.4 NM (11.9 km; 7.4 mi) south southeast of the city of Wajima on the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

Contents

The airport is a four-story building with two jetways. It is officially designated a third class airport.

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History

Completed on July 7, 2003, Noto Airport is among Japan's newest greenfield airports not constructed to replace an existing facility. Initially, All Nippon Airways (ANA) was only willing to operate one flight per day. Ishikawa Prefecture thus suggested Japan's first occupancy guarantee agreement (搭乗率保証制度), in which ANA agreed to operate two daily flights and in exchange Ishikawa Prefecture agreed to compensate ANA if occupancy fell below a set target (initially 70%) and gross ticket sales were under 200 million yen. However, the agreement also specified that if the target is exceeded, ANA must pay the excess back to Ishikawa Prefecture. So far, the agreement seems to have been mutually beneficial:

References

Noto Airport Wikipedia