Jeju International Airport () is the second largest airport in South Korea, just behind

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. It is located in the city of Jeju. The airport opened in 1968. Jeju International Airport serves many mainland destinations in South Korea, as well as international destinations in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. In 2015, 26,237,562 passengers used the airport. It is home to the world's busiest airline route, to

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. Due to the large number of passengers using the airport and its limited capacity, it was announced in 2019 that a second airport would be constructed on the island near the southern city of

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with an investment of 3.8 billion US dollars. It is expected to open to the public in 2025.

Airlines and destinations

Traffic and statistics

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and Jeju. As Jeju has gained popularity as a resort destination, the number of international visitors from China, Malaysia, Thailand, and Japan has increased. In 1997, Jeju airport handled nine million passengers. In 2019, the airport passed the 30 million milestone despite being designed to handle a maximum of 26 million passengers. In 2020, the number of international visitors dropped due to

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. However, the Seoul-Jeju route remained the busiest in the world and flight delays are still common. In 2019, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport announced a $4.18 billion construction plan that would begin in 2021 in Seogwipo City in southern Jeju. The airport would take 50% of the domestic flights to Jeju and would help to transfer flights during bad weather. The airport would accommodate 18.98 million passengers by year.

Traffic by calendar year

Domestic traffic by route

Busiest international routes

Top carriers

The percentage of passengers carried by the ten largest carriers in Jeju (covering arriving, departing and connecting passengers) in 2015 is as follows:

Accidents and incidents

* On 10 August 1994,

Korean Air Flight 2033 Korean Air Flight 2033 was a scheduled passenger flight from Seoul to Jeju, South Korea. On 10 August 1994, the Airbus A300 serving the route overran the runway on landing at Jeju International Airport in poor weather and burst into flames. All ...

overran the runway while attempting to land at Jeju International Airport. All 160 persons on board survived. * On 28 July 2011,

Asiana Airlines Flight 991 On 28 July 2011, Asiana Airlines Flight 991, a Boeing 747-400F cargo aircraft on a flight from Seoul, South Korea, to Shanghai, China, crashed into the sea off Jeju Island after suffering a main-deck fire. Both pilots, the only two people on boa ...

experienced an in-flight fire and crashed while attempting to divert to Jeju. Both pilots were killed.

References

External links

Official Site
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