- IATA
- CTS
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- RJCC
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1988
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 24M
- in 2024
History & name
New Chitose Airport opened in 1988 and is operated by Hokkaido Airports. Located 43 km from Sapporo at an elevation of 82 feet, it has two runways of up to 3,000 m and handled 24 million passengers in 2024.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- New Chitose Airport
- Serves
- Sapporo, Japan
- City centre
- 43 km from Sapporo
- Opened
- 1988
- Operator
- Hokkaido Airports
- Passengers
- 24 million in 2024
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,000 m
- Elevation
- 82 ft (25 m)
- Website
- hokkaido-airports.com ↗
Where it sits
42.8°N, 141.7°E puts CTS in the northern hemisphere, 4,756 km from the equator and 5,251 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 137th most northerly, which makes it the 525th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 42.8°S, 38.3°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Capitan Corbeta CA Curbelo (PDP) in Uruguay, still 1,695 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Sendai (SDJ), 520 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from CTS
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo | HND | 820 km | 1h 31m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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