Bonriki International Airport
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The Bonriki International Airport ( IATA code: TRW, ICAO code: NGTA ) is an international airport on Tarawa, Kiribati. It is located in the north of the atoll Bonriki the southern island chain of Tarawa, today form the capital of South Tarawa and is 7 km from the nearest major city Bikenibeu, 24 km from Bairiki and 29 km from Betio away.
The airport is the base of the state-owned airline Air Kiribati. Air Kiribati operates from the airport as a hub Bonriki seven goals in the Gilbert Islands. Of these destinations Air Kiribati flies to nine other destinations of the archipelago. The national airline of Fiji Air Pacific offers flights to and from the largest airport in Fiji, the Nadi International Airport, at. The national airline of Nauru Our Airline offered until June 2008 its Boeing 737 flights to Nauru International Airport and thus onward flight to Honiara International Airport in the Solomon Islands and to Brisbane, Australia at. The further outward airfields on Kiritimati and the other of the line and Phoenix Islands are currently not served by Bonriki from.
On 1 January 2009 a new, located in kiribatischem privately owned airline that Coral Sun Airways was founded with base Bonriki Airport, which serves the national airfields in the atolls.
The runway has a length of 2011 meters for machines up to the size of a Boeing 737-800 and Airbus A320 family. The airport building has a gateway, two passenger terminals and a cargo terminal. There are strict quarantine regulations. Night flights are not possible.
History
The airport was built in 1943 by the SeaBees the United States Navy, where he had the name " Mullinix Field " and served as a base of the United States Army Air Force. The Tarawa - military airfield was an important part in the Pacific war which took place in 1944, attacks on the Marshall Islands, Kwajalein and Eniwetok. In 1945, he was acquired by the then British colonial administration of the " Gilbert and Elliceinseln ". 1964 launched Fiji Airways from Nadi from the first regular air service to Funafuti, the then Elliceinseln, today the nation of Tuvalu and after Bonriki. After the independence of Kiribati in 1979, the airport was transferred to state ownership and has been removed. As of 2008, a renewed expansion is planned, for which the costs guaranteed the Taiwanese government.