<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History of Hakodate International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Hakodate airport opened in 1961 with a single 1,200 m runway. A new terminal upgrade and runway extension to 2,000 m became operational in 1971.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The runway was extended further to 2,500 m in 1978 and to 3,000 m in 1999. A new terminal building opened in 2005.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On September 6, 1976, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected to the West by landing a MiG-25 Foxbat aircraft at Hakodate Airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On June 21, 1995, All Nippon Airways Flight 857, a scheduled Boeing 747 flight from Tokyo to Hakodate, was hijacked by Fumio Kutsumi, a Tokyo bank employee armed with a screwdriver.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Kutsumi claimed to be acting on behalf of Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara. The aircraft landed in Hakodate and stayed on the runway overnight for 15 hours before riot police stormed the aircraft at dawn and freed the passengers.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Ground Transportation of Hakodate International Airport</h2>
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<p class="blog-para">The airport is at an elevation of 112 ft (34 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 12/30 with an asphalt surface measuring 9,843 ft (3,000 m) in length.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Air Do, All Nippon Airways, China Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, EVA Air, Hokkaido Air System, Japan Airlines, Okay Airways, Tianjin Airlines, Tigerair and Vanilla Air offer seasonal and scheduled commercial flights from this Airport.</p>
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