The sweeping order in the governor was the type that provides Japanese
bureaucrats cardiac arrest: plans for any three-story airport terminal
terminal, painstakingly laid over years, may be scrapped and substituted
for just one-floor layout.
Amenities could be pared low.
Jetways for boarding could be eliminated passengers would board planes
in the tarmac and possibly even handle their very own check-in luggage.
All of the ideas were so blasphemous operating-conscious Japan that
certain local official stated his “mind went blank” as he heard about
the program.
Osaka to Yangzhou flight
Ibaraki
Airport terminal, about 53 miles north of Tokyo, japan, opens on
Thursday and will probably be a totally new kind of Japanese airport
terminal: a no-frills facility that may finally open Japan’s costly
capital to low-budget airlines.
Overlooked by Japan’s big-league
carriers, the small airport terminal goes against all odds. It's the
98th airport terminal inside a country having a where you live now
smaller sized than California’s. Ibaraki Prefecture is lacking of
attractions, aside from an old garden, noted for its plum blossoms, and
famous purveyors of natto, or pungent, fermented soy beans.
For
the time being, Ibaraki will offer you just two flights each day:
someone to Seoul through the South Korean carrier Asiana Airlines, and
the other to Kobe, a medium-size port city in western Japan, through the
Japanese budget carrier SkyMark Airlines.
Even Japan’s
transportation minister, Seiji Maehara, continues to be hard-pressed to
muster much enthusiasm for that airport’s opening, despite its roughly
22 billion yen ($243 million) from local and national coffers. This news
media have colored Ibaraki as yet another money-losing airport
terminal, a good example of the useless public works projects that us
dot Japan’s countryside.I am not going to beg airlines from Japan and
elsewhere to fly to Ibaraki,” Mr. Maehara stated a week ago. “The
prefecture must do what it really can to utilize the airport terminal.”
A
closer inspection at Ibaraki, however, reveals a method that may jolt
Japan’s lengthy-stagnant aviation sector.Travel experts say low-cost air
services have the possibility for growth, especially as incomes
increase in big countries like India and china, getting airline travel
to more and more people. Budget carriers have popped up over the
Asia-Off-shore region. But Japan’s air travel industry continues to be
covered with Japan Airlines and all sorts of Nippon Airlines and
affected by costly and inefficient airports.
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