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Japan Civil Aviation
The civil aviation industry grew steadily during the
1980s,
with increased demand for both domestic and international
services.
Increases in the number of passengers on each type of
route reached
more than 10 percent per year. Direct service is provided
between
the New Tokyo International Airport at Narita-Sanrizuka,
seventy
kilometers northeast of Tokyo, and nearly every country in
the
world via Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways, and most
other
international carriers. Tokyo International Airport at
Haneda and
and the airports at Osaka, Nagoya, Nagasaki, Fukuoka,
Kagoshima,
and Naha also handle some international flights, and the
new Kansai
International Airport built on an artificial island in
Osaka Bay,
was expected to be in service in 1994. Japan Airlines, All
Nippon
Airways, and Japan Air System also provided connections
between
most major Japanese cities, and South-West Air Lines
operated
scheduled flights to major islands in the Ryukyus. In 1990
Japanese
carriers served more than 65 million passengers. Although
air cargo
accounted only for a small proportion of all cargo
transported both
domestically and internationally--approximately 5 billion
tonkilometers in 1990--the rate of air cargo growth was very
high.
Data as of January 1994
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