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Kona International Airport at Keāhole is on the Island of Hawaii, in Kalaoa CDP, Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States.〔"(Kalaoa CDP, Hawaii )." ''U.S. Census Bureau''. Retrieved on May 21, 2009.〕 The airport serves leeward, or Western Hawaii island, including the town of Kailua-Kona and the resorts of the North Kona and South Kohala districts. == History == Much of the runway is built on a relatively recent lava flow: the 1801 ''Huehue'' flow from Hualālai. This flow extended the shoreline out an estimated , adding some of land to the island〔http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/1997/97_07_25.html ''Fishponds versus lava flows'', USGS, 1997〕 and creating Keāhole Point. The new airport opened on July 1, 1970, with a single runway; the previous smaller airstrip was converted into the Old Kona Airport State Recreation Area. Construction crews from Bechtel Corporation had used three million pounds of dynamite to flatten the lava flow (which was riddled with Lava tubes) within 13 months. In its first full year, 515,378 passengers passed through the new open-air tropical-style terminals. The aquaculture ponds and solar energy experiments at the nearby Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) can be seen during landing and take-off. It was originally known as Ke-āhole Airport, since the āhole fish (Kuhlia sandvicensis) was found nearby. Runway extension to 11,000 feet was in 1994, making it the largest in the Hawaiian Islands after Honolulu. It became Keāhole-Kona International Airport in 1993;〔(Kona Airport master plan ) official web site〕 in 1997 it became the Kona International Airport at Keāhole. Japan Airlines' Kona-Tokyo flight that started in 1996 ended in 2010, so Hawaii Island's only scheduled international flight is to Vancouver.〔(Last JAL Kona-to-Tokyo flight lands on Big Island )()〕 Hawaiian Airlines filed an application with the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) for nonstop flights from Kona to Tokyo's Haneda Airport restoring the link between the two cities after Japan Airlines ended flights to Narita Airport in 2010.〔http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hawaiian-finishes-application-tokyo-kona-170324789.html;_ylt=A2KLOzH6nWNQ4xEAS_fQtDMD〕 The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) rejected the airline's application despite support from residents of west Hawaii.〔http://westhawaiitoday.com/sections/news/local-news/dot-rejects-hawaiian-airlines%E2%80%99-request-kona-haneda-service.html〕 On October 23, 2013, Hawaiian Airlines announced that they will re-apply to the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) for nonstop Kona-Haneda flights a year after the airline was rejected to fly that route in favor of Delta's Seattle to Haneda nonstop. 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「Kona International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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