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Honolulu International Airport is the principal aviation gateway of the City & County of Honolulu and the State of Hawaii and is identified as one of the busiest airports in the United States, with traffic now exceeding 21 million passengers a year and rising.〔("The State of Hawaii Airport Activity Statistics By Year 2007-1994" ), ''Department of Transportation, Airports Division, State of Hawaii''.〕 It is located in the Honolulu census-designated place three miles (5 km) northwest of Oahu's central business district.〔, effective December 20, 2007〕〔"(Honolulu CDP, HI )." ''U.S. Census Bureau''. Retrieved on May 21, 2009.〕 Main roads leading to the airport are Nimitz Highway and the Queen Liliuokalani Freeway of Interstate H-1. Honolulu International Airport serves as the principal hub of Hawaiian Airlines, the largest Hawaii-based airline. Hawaiian Airlines offers flights between the various airports of the Hawaiian Islands and also serves the continental United States, Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa, Tahiti, Japan, and South Korea. It is host to major United States and international airlines, with direct flights to American, Asian, and Pacific Rim destinations. In addition to services to most major western cities and many smaller gateways, especially in California, the airport has succeeded in attracting long-haul services to the East Coast including the recently added destinations of Toronto-Pearson and Washington-Dulles, which have joined established services to Atlanta, New York-JFK and Newark. It is also the base for Aloha Air Cargo, which previously offered both passenger and cargo services under the name Aloha Airlines. This airline ceased passenger flights on March 31, 2008 and sold off its cargo services to Seattle-based Saltchuk Resources, Inc (also owners of inter-island sea-based shipping company Young Brothers and Hawaiian Tug & Barge.) In 2012, the airport handled 19,291,412 passengers, 278,145 aircraft movements and processed 412,270 metric tonnes of cargo.〔 Tourists wanting to get from the Honolulu International Airport to their hotel in Waikiki can use public transportation (The Bus), taxi cab, airport shuttle or rental car.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HAW411.com Honolulu Airport )〕 == History == HNL opened in March 1927 as John Rodgers Airport, named after World War I naval officer John Rodgers. It was funded by the territorial legislature and the Chamber of Commerce, and was the first full airport in Hawaii: aircraft had previously been limited to small landing strips, fields or seaplane docks. From 1939 to 1943, the adjacent Keehi Lagoon was dredged for use by seaplanes, and the dredged soil was moved to HNL to provide more space for conventional airplanes. The U.S. military grounded all civil aircraft and took over all civil airports after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Rodgers Field was designated Naval Air Station Honolulu. The Navy built a control tower and terminal building, and some commercial traffic was allowed during daylight hours. Rodgers Field was returned to the Territory of Hawaii in 1946. At the time, at , it was one of the largest airports in the United States, with four paved land runways and three seaplane runways.〔 John Rodgers Airport was renamed Honolulu Airport in 1947; "International" was added to the name in 1951.〔 Being near the center of the Pacific Ocean it was a stop for many transpacific flights. By 1950 it was the third-busiest airport in the United States in terms of aircraft operations, and its runway was the longest in the world in 1953.〔 In summer 1959 Qantas began the first jet service to Honolulu on its flights between Australia and California. Aeronautical engineer and airline consultant, Frank Der Yuen, advised in the design of the original building and founded its aerospace museum. The original terminal building on the southeast side of runways 4 was replaced by the John Rodgers Terminal, which was dedicated on August 22, 1962 and opened on October 14, 1962.〔 From 1970 through 1978, the architect Vladimir Ossipoff designed a terminal modernization project that remodeled this terminal and created several additions,〔 〕 which included the Diamond Head Concourse in 1970, the Ewa Concourse in 1972, and the Central Concourse in 1980. Pan Am used Honolulu as a transpacific hub for many years, initially as a connecting point between the West Coast and Polynesia (Fiji, New Caledonia and New Zealand) in 1946,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/pa/pa46/pa46-07.jpg )〕 followed by service to East Asia through Midway Island and Wake Island from 1947.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/pa/pa47/pa47-07.jpg )〕 By the mid-1970s Pan Am offered nonstop service from Honolulu to Japan, Guam, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, as well as to cities on the West Coast.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.departedflights.com/PA042973.html )〕 Continental Airlines used Honolulu as a stopover point for charter service to Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War era, and to feed its Guam-based Air Micronesia operation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://airchive.com/html/timetable-and-route-maps/continental-airlines-and-new-york-air-timetables-route-maps-and-history/1966-june-1-continental-airlines-timetables-route-maps-and-history/6545 )〕 American Airlines also operated flights to Australia and the South Pacific through Honolulu from 1970 to 1975.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://airchive.com/html/timetable-and-route-maps/american-airlines-timetables-route-maps-and-history/1970-september-14-american-airlines-timetables-route-maps-and-history/4734 )〕 Many foreign carriers used Honolulu as a transpacific stopover point, including Air New Zealand, China Airlines, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Philippine Airlines, Qantas and Singapore Airlines.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.departedflights.com/HNL79intro.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Honolulu International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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