Narita International Airport

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Narita International

IATA: NRT - ICAO: RJAA
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Narita International Airport Corperation
Serves		Tokyo
Elevation AMSL		141 ft (43 m)
Coordinates		35°45′53″N, 140°23′11″W
Website		http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/
Parts of this article may come from Wikipedia
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
16R/34L	13,123	4,000	Asphalt
34R/16L	7,152	2,180	Asphalt

1 General
2 Gate Assignment
3 Flight Planning Resources
4 IFR Routes
5 Available Sceneries

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General

Narita International Airport is located in Narita, Chiba, Japan, in the eastern portion of the Greater Tokyo Area. It is located 60 km from the downtown core.

Narita handles the majority of international passenger traffic to and from Japan, and is also a major connecting point for air traffic between Asia and the Americas. It is the second-busiest passenger airport in Japan, busiest air freight hub in Japan, and third-busiest air freight hub in the world. It serves as the main international hub of Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways. It is also a major hub for Northwest Airlines and a focus city for United Airlines. Under Japanese law, it is classified as a first class airport.

The airport was known as New Tokyo International Airport until 2004. While Tokyo is the source of much of Narita Airport's traffic, the airport is located far from central Tokyo (1 hour by the fastest train) and in a different prefecture. Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport), located in Tokyo proper, is the busiest airport in Japan and the fourth-busiest in the world, even though it handles very little international traffic.

On 1 April 2004, New Tokyo International Airport was privatized and officially renamed Narita International Airport, reflecting its popular designation since its opening. Following privatization, the airport has reached record traffic levels, and several construction projects are ongoing.

In addition to the ongoing political disputes, which have lessened in severity over the years, arguments over slots and landing fees have plagued the busy airport. Because so many airlines want to use it, the Japanese aviation authorities have limited the number of flights each airline can operate from this airport, making the airport expensive for both airlines and their passengers.

One of the most constant criticisms of the airport has been its distance from central Tokyo—an hour by the fastest train, and often longer by road due to traffic jams. The distance is even more problematic for residents and businesses in west Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture, both of which are much closer to Haneda Airport. The Narita Rapid Railway, scheduled to open in 2010, will alleviate the problem to some extent by shaving 20 minutes off the travel time.

Several gates at Narita are being refitted with double-decker jetbridges to accommodate the Airbus A380.

Although the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has given Narita a monopoly on international air service to the Tokyo region, that monopoly has been gradually weakening. Haneda has had limited international service for some time, beginning with flights to Taiwan and later replaced by flights to Gimpo Airport in Seoul. Following the construction of Haneda's Runway D in 2009, the government aims to transfer other international services to Haneda in order to relieve Narita's congestion and expansion problems. The Ministry of Transport continues to investigate the possibility of building a new reliever airport on an artificial island in Tokyo Bay or off the Kujukuri coast of Chiba Prefecture. Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara has proposed redeveloping Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo as a civil airport.

The future Hyakuri Airfield (Ibaraki Airport), opens in 2009, should relieve traffic for domestic passengers destined to/from Ibaraki and Tochigi Prefectures, and potentially even those in Gunma. Technically, the runway here is large enough for jumbo jets. Shizuoka Airport, currently under construction, could take away Numazu-Fuji area passengers that would otherwise come to Tokyo, but neither will significantly impact the Tokyo region.

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Gate Assignment

MetroAir operates out of gate 15, in Terminal 1 at RJAA. FS9 Gate UNK

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Flight Planning Resources

Airport Diagram
Procedures - contains SID, STAR and IAP 31 Charts including approach and Terminal Procedures.

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IFR Routes

Pilots should add their IFR route plans originating from RJAA here as a central repository for their fellow pilots.

Destination	Route	Suggested Altitude	Charts	Preferred	Comments
KONT	RJAA GUPPY OTR8 KAGIS OTR11 COMFE G344 CALMA G344 CARTO R336 ADK G8 EIVRS 52N65 51N57 49N49 47N42 45N36 42N30 ETCHY Q1 PYE J88 ROBIE J6 AVE EHF ZIGGY3 KONT	33,000 Range: FL190-410 (odd)	RJAA KONT		N/A