Juneau International Airport
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The Juneau International Airport (IATA: JNU, ICAO: PAJN ) is a public airport and water landing site, which is operated by the city of Juneau. The airport is located 12.7 km from the city center and is a regional base for all types of air traffic, both for bush planes as well as for Alaska Airlines.
The airport is listed in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems ( NPIAS ) for 2011-2015. The NPIAS categorized him as a primary commercial service airport. 2008 Airport recorded 378,741 passengers ( boarding ), 2009 337 038 passengers and 2010 there were 344 057 passengers.
History
During the Second World War the airport from the United States Army Air Forces, was operated as a supply base for the bases and airfields, which were built in the Aleutians. It was also handled the delivery of Leihflugzeugen to the USSR via the airport Juneau as well as about the airport Nome.
Infrastructure and aircraft
The Juneau International Airport covers an area of 264 hectares at an altitude of 6 meters above the sea level. It has a paved runway, Runway, as 8/26 referred, which is 2578 meters long and 46 meters wide. There is also a landing site for seaplanes, with the designation 8W/26W, which is 1494 meters long and 137 meters wide.
Between December 2010 and November 2011, we recorded 86 564 aircraft movements (237 per day): 73 % air taxi, 17 % general aviation, 9% business and 1% military. 339 aircraft were located at that time in Juneau.