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47-1647: Commercial airport in South Jeolla, South Korea Muan International Airport 무안국제공항 [REDACTED] IATA : MWX ICAO : RKJB Summary Airport type Public Owner Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Operator Korea Airports Corporation Serves Gwangju Mokpo Naju Location Muan , South Jeolla , South Korea Opened 8 November 2007 ; 17 years ago  ( 2007-11-08 ) Elevation  AMSL 16 m / 52 ft Coordinates 34°59′29.06″N 126°22′58.13″E  /  34.9914056°N 126.3828139°E  / 34.9914056; 126.3828139 Website www .airport .co .kr /muaneng /index .do Map [REDACTED] [REDACTED] MWX /RKJB Location of airport in South Korea [REDACTED] Runways Direction Length Surface m ft 01/19 2,800 9,186 Concrete Statistics (2019) Passengers 895,410 Aircraft movements 6,585 Cargo tonnage 6,762 Source:airport.kr.com Muan International Airport Hangul 무안국제공항 Hanja 務安國際空港 Revised Romanization Muan Gukje Gonghang McCune–Reischauer Muan Kukche Konghang Muan International Airport ( IATA : MWX , ICAO : RKJB )

94-814: A memorandum of understanding with Airbus for up to 24 Airbus A321neos in a deal worth up to US$ 3.1  billion was signed; the event was witnessed by the General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng and the French Parliamentary President François de Rugy . On 25 June 2018, with the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ , the FLC Group officially signed an agreement with Boeing for an order of 20 new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft worth $ 5.6 billion. In March 2019, Bamboo Airways completed an agreement to buy 26 more Airbus A321neo aircraft with

141-666: A Resignation Letter to move up to the board of directors, only to resign after just 2 months. Currently, Le Thai Sam is acting as the carrier's Chairman of the Board, Le Ba Nguyen as the Vice Chairman and Nguyen Ngoc Trong as the CEO. The carrier has been undergone a restructuring plan regarding its leadership, route network and fleet composition. Bamboo Airways was owned by FLC Group, a company that specializes in property development, finance, and mining, among other activities. FLC Group

188-525: A five-star airline. In July 2018, The FLC Group announced it would be increasing its charter capital to $ 56.52 million. The establishment of the carrier was approved by the Prime Minister of Vietnam in July 2018. The airline's AOC was granted on 9 July 2018. Bamboo Airways subsequently passed the five stages for certification required by Vietnam's Civil Aviation Authority . After reviewing

235-572: A leased Airbus A320 linking Ho Chi Minh City with Hanoi . A firm order covering ten Boeing 787-9s was made public in early 2019. The carrier received its first A320neo in November 2019. The airline's first Boeing 787-9 was delivered a month later. In March 2022, Trịnh Văn Quyết - the founder and chairman of Bamboo Airways' then-parent group FLC - as well as many other of FLC's key people were arrested over alleged stock market manipulation, fraud and appropriation of properties. Concerned that

282-567: A new airport is built, replacing the old one, leaving the city's new "major" airport (or the only remaining airport) code to no longer correspond with the city's name. The original airport in Nashville, Tennessee, was built in 1936 as part of the Works Progress Administration and called Berry Field with the designation, BNA. A new facility known as Nashville International Airport was built in 1987 but still uses BNA. This

329-524: A total listing value of up to $ 6.3 billion, serving the plan to develop the fleet and open new international routes, the agreement will bring the total number of narrow-body Airbus A321Neo aircraft ordered by Bamboo Airways to 50, including 24 in the memorandum of understanding signed in March 2018. The airline aimed to hire up to 600 personnel when it began in April 2018 and additionally had goals to operate as

376-509: Is GSN and its IATA code is SPN, and some coincide with IATA codes of non-U.S. airports. Canada's unusual codes—which bear little to no similarity with any conventional abbreviation to the city's name—such as YUL in Montréal , and YYZ in Toronto , originated from the two-letter codes used to identify weather reporting stations in the 1930s. The letters preceding the two-letter code follow

423-477: Is a Vietnamese airline founded in 2017. Commencing operations in January 2019, this carrier declared that it would be following the "hybrid airline" model. Bamboo Airways operates a fleet of the narrowbody A320 Family aircraft, having hubs at Noi Bai International Airport and Tan Son Nhat International Airport alongside its registered base, Phu Cat Airport . The airline was founded in 2017. In March 2018,

470-493: Is an international airport in Muan County , South Jeolla Province , South Korea . Construction of the airport began in 1997 and the airport opened on November 9, 2007. The airport serves the province of South Jeolla, especially the cities of Gwangju , Mokpo and Naju . It replaced the nearby Mokpo Airport and is expected to replace the nearby Gwangju Airport in the near future as well. In 2018, 543,247 passengers used

517-617: Is available. However, many railway administrations have their own list of codes for their stations, such as the list of Amtrak station codes . Airport codes arose out of the convenience that the practice brought pilots for location identification in the 1930s. Initially, pilots in the United States used the two-letter code from the National Weather Service (NWS) for identifying cities. This system became unmanageable for cities and towns without an NWS identifier, and

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564-523: Is different from the name in English, yet the airport code represents only the English name. Examples include: Due to scarcity of codes, some airports are given codes with letters not found in their names: The use of 'X' as a filler letter is a practice to create three-letter identifiers when more straightforward options were unavailable: Some airports in the United States retained their NWS ( National Weather Service ) codes and simply appended an X at

611-671: Is governed by IATA Resolution 763, and it is administered by the IATA's headquarters in Montreal , Canada. The codes are published semi-annually in the IATA Airline Coding Directory. IATA provides codes for airport handling entities, and for certain railway stations. Alphabetical lists of airports sorted by IATA code are available. A list of railway station codes , shared in agreements between airlines and rail lines such as Amtrak , SNCF , and Deutsche Bahn ,

658-513: Is in conjunction to rules aimed to avoid confusion that seem to apply in the United States, which state that "the first and second letters or second and third letters of an identifier may not be duplicated with less than 200 nautical miles separation." Thus, Washington, D.C. area's three airports all have radically different codes: IAD for Washington–Dulles , DCA for Washington–Reagan (District of Columbia Airport), and BWI for Baltimore (Baltimore–Washington International, formerly BAL). Since HOU

705-3291: Is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org . Annual passenger traffic at MWX airport. See Wikidata query . Air traffic statistics Aircraft operations Passenger volume Cargo tonnage 2007 224 15,223 159 2008 1,841 130,014 1,173 2009 1,032 57,716 450 2010 1,058 47,727 907 2011 875 91,133 941 2012 923 96,166 957 2013 1,237 132,603 1,329 2014 1,499 178,414 1,738 2015 2,355 311,922 2,677 2016 2,330 321,675 2,751 2017 2,146 298,016 2,243 2018 3,818 543,247 3,890 2019 6,585 895,410 6,762 2020 930 112,938 1,013 2021 88 7,529 35 2022 192 29,394 352 2023 1,484 233,337 2,724 Source: Korea Airports Corporation Traffic Statistics See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] South Korea portal [REDACTED] Aviation portal Transportation in South Korea References [ edit ] ^ "South Korea Traffic Statistics" . airport.kr.com. ^ "Cheongju Airport: LCC Aero K launches its new hub" . ^ "Beijing Capital Adds 2 Tunxi – Korea Routes From mid-Sep 2024" . Aeroroutes . Retrieved 19 September 2024 . ^ "Cambodia Airways Adds Siem Reap – Muan Service From late-Dec 2024}" . ^ "CHINA UNITED ADDS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FROM ORDOS IN LATE-2Q24" . Aeroroutes . Retrieved 28 May 2024 . ^ "Jeju Air Expands Mainland China Network From late-April 2024" . Aeroroutes . Retrieved 12 April 2024 . ^ "Jeju Air Expands Muan International Service in Dec 2024" . Aeroroutes . Retrieved 9 October 2024 . ^ "Jin Air Expands Jeju Domestic Network in NS24" . Aeroroutes . Retrieved 28 March 2024 . ^ "Jin Air expands Muan international network in NW24" . Aeroroutes . Retrieved 14 October 2024 . ^ "진에어, 5월 무안∼울란바토르 신규 취항" [Jin Air, launching Muan~Ulanbataar in May]; (in Korean). Yonhap News Agency. 12 April 2024. ^ "Chinese Carriers May – Oct 2024 Vietnam / NE Asia Network Additions" . Aeroroutes . Retrieved 22 May 2024 . ^ "Mainland Chinese Carriers NS23 International / Regional Network – 14MAY23" . Aeroroutes . Retrieved 16 May 2023 . ^ "무안공항 국제선 신규 노선 취항 '활기' " [Muan Airport's new international route 'vital'] (in Korean). Jeonnam Ilbo. 22 May 2023. ^ "Air Traffic Statistics" . Incheon International Airport . Archived from

752-543: Is not followed outside the United States: In addition, since three letter codes starting with Q are widely used in radio communication, cities whose name begins with "Q" also had to find alternate codes, as in the case of: IATA codes should not be confused with the FAA identifiers of U.S. airports. Most FAA identifiers agree with the corresponding IATA codes, but some do not, such as Saipan , whose FAA identifier

799-592: Is reportedly transferring Bamboo Airways to another "strategic investor" and eventually withdrawing its influence from the carrier. In 2023, following the founders' crisis, the carrier was practically acquired by Him Lam Group ( Him Lam JSC ) - a sizeable real estate investor in Vietnam - alongside a group of " Japanese-associated investors." Bamboo Airways is headquartered in Cau Giay district, Hanoi. The transfer of Bamboo Airways' main offices from Hanoi to HCMC

846-416: Is used for William P. Hobby Airport , the new Houston–Intercontinental became IAH. The code BKK was originally assigned to Bangkok–Don Mueang and was later transferred to Suvarnabhumi Airport , while the former adopted DMK. The code ISK was originally assigned to Gandhinagar Airport (Nashik's old airport) and later on transferred to Ozar Airport (Nashik's current airport). Shanghai–Hongqiao retained

893-529: The CEO position from 2018 until July 2022. Nguyen Manh Quan is the current CEO of the carrier, as of July 30, 2022. Dang Tat Thang was also the chairman of the carrier after the former Chairman Trinh Van Quyet was arrested at the end of March 2022 on stock manipulation charges. He held the position and also the aforementioned CEO position until July 27, 2022, when he resigned, citing "personal reasons". After an extraordinary shareholders meeting on August 13, 2022,

940-571: The Canadian transcontinental railroads were built, each station was assigned its own two-letter Morse code : When the Canadian government established airports, it used the existing railway codes for them as well. If the airport had a weather station, authorities added a "Y" to the front of the code, meaning "Yes" to indicate it had a weather station or some other letter to indicate it did not. When international codes were created in cooperation with

987-529: The Graph extension Pages with disabled graphs CS1 Korean-language sources (ko) Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles containing Korean-language text Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas Articles with Korean-language sources (ko) Pages using the Kartographer extension IATA airport code The assignment of these codes

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1034-546: The U.S. For example, several airports in Alaska have scheduled commercial service, such as Stebbins and Nanwalek , which use FAA codes instead of ICAO codes. Thus, neither system completely includes all airports with scheduled service. Some airports are identified in colloquial speech by their IATA code. Examples include LAX and JFK . Bamboo Airways Bamboo Airways JSC ( Vietnamese : CTCP Hàng không Tre Việt , lit.   'Viet Bamboo Aviation JSC')

1081-481: The United States, because "Y" was seldom used in the United States, Canada simply used the weather station codes for its airports, changing the "Y" to a "Z" if it conflicted with an airport code already in use. The result is that most major Canadian airport codes start with "Y" followed by two letters in the city's name (for example, YOW for O tta w a , YWG for W innipe g , YYC for C algar y , or YVR for V ancouve r ), whereas other Canadian airports append

1128-598: The airline's financial structure and business plan, the Ministry of Transport issued an aviation license in November 2018. The carrier inducted its first aircraft, an Airbus A319-100 , in December 2018. The same month, Bamboo Airways took delivery of its first A321neo , on lease from GECAS . The airline started operations using aircraft acquired by lease from third-party lessors, before taking delivery of aircraft from Airbus. Operations started on 16 January 2019, with

1175-440: The airport itself instead of the city it serves, while another code is reserved which refers to the city itself which can be used to search for flights to any of its airports. For instance: Or using a code for the city in one of the major airports and then assigning another code to another airport: When different cities with the same name each have an airport, they need to be assigned different codes. Examples include: Sometimes,

1222-418: The airport's former name, such as Orlando International Airport 's MCO (for Mc C o y Air Force Base), or Chicago's O'Hare International Airport , which is coded ORD for its original name: Or char d Field. In rare cases, the code comes from the airport's unofficial name, such as Kahului Airport 's OGG (for local aviation pioneer Jimmy H ogg ). In large metropolitan areas, airport codes are often named after

1269-1230: The airport. The airport is managed by the Korea Airports Corporation . Airlines and destinations [ edit ] Airlines Destinations Bamboo Airways Charter: Da Nang Beijing Capital Airlines Huangshan Cambodia Airways Siem Reap (begins 29 December 2024) China United Airlines Ordos Hunnu Air Ulaanbaatar Jeju Air Jeju , Kota Kinabalu (resumes 10 December 2024), Nagasaki (begins 10 December 2024), Yanji , Zhangjiajie Jin Air Jeju , Osaka–Kansai (begins 2 December 2024), Taipei–Taoyuan (begins 2 December 2024), Tokyo–Narita (begins 2 December 2024), Ulaanbaatar Loong Air Hangzhou Lucky Air Lijiang Sichuan Airlines Zhangjiajie StarFlyer Charter: Kitakyushu VietJet Air Da Nang Vietnam Airlines Charter: Da Nang , Hanoi , Nha Trang Statistics [ edit ] [REDACTED] Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There

1316-423: The carrier's shareholders have appointed Deputy Chairman Nguyen Ngoc Trong as the new chairman of the board for the carrier. On May 21, during a board meeting, the carrier's Board of Directors passed a Resolution appointing Mr Nguyen Minh Hai, former Deputy CEO of Vietnam Airlines and former CEO of Cambodia Angkor Air , to be the new CEO of the carrier from May 24, replacing Mr Nguyen Manh Quan who has submitted

1363-502: The code SHA, while the newer Shanghai–Pudong adopted PVG. The opposite was true for Berlin : the airport Berlin–Tegel used the code TXL, while its smaller counterpart Berlin–Schönefeld used SXF; the Berlin Brandenburg Airport has the airport code BER, which is also part of its branding. The airports of Hamburg (HAM) and Hannover (HAJ) are less than 100 nautical miles (190 km) apart and therefore share

1410-557: The crisis would negatively affect the operations of the carrier and damage the rights and safety of the customers, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam announced that it would closely monitor and supervise Bamboo Airways in a certain period of time, while Bamboo Airways declared that it faced little disruption and its business was still running "smoothly". Followed by the authorities' investigations aiming at its parent company FLC Group, Bamboo Airways stated that it

1457-934: The end. Examples include: A lot of minor airfields without scheduled passenger traffic have ICAO codes but not IATA codes, since the four letter codes allow more number of codes, and IATA codes are mainly used for passenger services such as tickets, and ICAO codes by pilots. In the US, such airfields use FAA codes instead of ICAO. There are airports with scheduled service for which there are ICAO codes but not IATA codes, such as Nkhotakota Airport/Tangole Airport in Malawi or Chōfu Airport in Tokyo, Japan. There are also several minor airports in Russia (e.g., Omsukchan Airport ) which lack IATA codes and instead use internal Russian codes for booking. Flights to these airports cannot be booked through

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1504-556: The first Bamboo aircraft was rolled out in Taiwan without "FLC Group" marking. On 21 June 2023, Him Lam Group was officially announced as the new owner of Bamboo Airways. Shortly after the Him Lam takeover, there were allegations of Bamboo Airways filing for bankruptcy protection due to "the inability of the new investors." The carrier later refuted the rumours mentioned while committing that it would maintain all normal operations. It

1551-557: The first three letters of the city in which it is located, for instance: The code may also be a combination of the letters in its name, such as: Sometimes the airport code reflects pronunciation, rather than spelling, namely: For many reasons, some airport codes do not fit the normal scheme described above. Some airports, for example, cross several municipalities or regions, and therefore, use codes derived from some of their letters, resulting in: Other airports—particularly those serving cities with multiple airports—have codes derived from

1598-478: The following format: Most large airports in Canada have codes that begin with the letter "Y", although not all "Y" codes are Canadian (for example, YUM for Yuma, Arizona , and YNT for Yantai , China), and not all Canadian airports start with the letter "Y" (for example, ZBF for Bathurst, New Brunswick ). Many Canadian airports have a code that starts with W, X or Z, but none of these are major airports. When

1645-597: The form of " YYZ ", a song by the rock band Rush , which utilizes the Morse code signal as a musical motif. Some airports have started using their IATA codes as brand names , such as Calgary International Airport (YYC) and Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Numerous New Zealand airports use codes that contain the letter Z, to distinguish them from similar airport names in other countries. Examples include HLZ for Hamilton , ZQN for Queenstown , and WSZ for Westport . Predominantly, airport codes are named after

1692-487: The international air booking systems or have international luggage transferred there, and thus, they are booked instead through the airline or a domestic booking system. Several heliports in Greenland have 3-letter codes used internally which might be IATA codes for airports in faraway countries. There are several airports with scheduled service that have not been assigned ICAO codes that do have IATA codes, especially in

1739-612: The name of the airport itself, for instance: This is also true with some cities with a single airport (even if there is more than one airport in the metropolitan area of said city), such as BDL for Hartford, Connecticut 's B ra dl ey International Airport or Baltimore's BWI, for B altimore/ W ashington I nternational Airport ; however, the latter also serves Washington, D.C. , alongside Dulles International Airport (IAD, for I nternational A irport D ulles) and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA, for D istrict of C olumbia A irport). The code also sometimes comes from

1786-464: The names of its founders, including the "FLC Group" brand. In the financial report of 2022's third quarter , FLC formally confirmed that its stake in Bamboo had been reduced to just more than 21%, eventually losing its dominant stakeholder position. In March 2023, Bamboo Airways confirmed that it had found a group of new investors replacing Trịnh Văn Quyết and FLC's ownership in the company. Meanwhile,

1833-416: The one they are located in: Other airport codes are of obscure origin, and each has its own peculiarities: In Asia, codes that do not correspond with their city's names include Niigata 's KIJ , Nanchang 's KHN and Pyongyang 's FNJ . EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg , which serves three countries, has three airport codes: BSL, MLH, EAP. Some cities have a name in their respective language which

1880-1977: The original on 2020-01-14 . Retrieved 23 July 2023 . "Muan Airport" . Korea Airports Corporation website . Archived from the original on July 22, 2011 . Retrieved June 25, 2005 . External links [ edit ] Muan Airport (in Korean) Muan Airport (English) v t e Airports in South Korea Major international Seoul–Gimpo Seoul–Incheon Jeju Busan–Gimhae Minor international Cheongju Daegu Muan Yangyang Domestic Gunsan Gwangju Pohang–Gyeongju Sacheon Ulsan Wonju Yeosu Military Gangneung Jeonju Jinhae Jungwon Mokpo Osan Seongmu Seosan Seoul Air Base Sokcho Suwon Yecheon Camp Humphreys Camp Walker Planned Busan–Gadeok Related topics AREX Seoul Station City Airport Terminal Alddreu Airfield Jeongseok Airport Uljin Airport Yeouido Airport Statistics [REDACTED] Category Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muan_International_Airport&oldid=1259448861 " Categories : Buildings and structures in South Jeolla Province Airports in South Korea Muan County Airports established in 2007 2007 establishments in South Korea Hidden categories: Pages using

1927-506: The same first and middle letters, indicating that this rule might be followed only in Germany. Many cities retain historical names in their airport codes, even after having undergone an official name/spelling/transliteration change: Some airport codes are based on previous names associated with a present airport, often with a military heritage. These include: Some airports are named for an administrative division or nearby city, rather than

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1974-500: The station code of Malton, Mississauga , where it is located). YUL is used for Montréal–Trudeau (UL was the ID code for the beacon in the city of Kirkland , now the location of Montréal–Trudeau). While these codes make it difficult for the public to associate them with a particular Canadian city, some codes have become popular in usage despite their cryptic nature, particularly at the largest airports. Toronto's code has entered pop culture in

2021-515: The two-letter code of the radio beacons that were the closest to the actual airport, such as YQX in Gander or YXS in Prince George . Four of the ten provincial capital airports in Canada have ended up with codes beginning with YY, including: Canada's largest airport is YYZ for Toronto Pearson (as YTZ was already allocated to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport , the airport was given

2068-529: The use of two letters allowed only a few hundred combinations; a three-letter system of airport codes was implemented. This system allowed for 17,576 permutations, assuming all letters can be used in conjunction with each other. Since the U.S. Navy reserved "N" codes, and to prevent confusion with Federal Communications Commission broadcast call signs , which begin with "W" or "K", the airports of certain U.S. cities whose name begins with one of these letters had to adopt "irregular" airport codes: This practice

2115-513: Was finalized on 31 March 2024. The former headquarters in Hanoi has now been repurposed into a representative office, which has been relocated to Long Bien District. As of February 2024 , Bamboo Airways operates or has operated to the following destinations: As of December 2023 , Bamboo Airways operates an all-leased fleet composed of the following aircraft: In August 2022 Chairman Nguyen Ngoc Trong said that Bamboo Airways aims to boost

2162-400: Was in need of a "strategic investor". Local media reported that a new owner had already started its acquisition of Bamboo Airways by refreshing the board of directors of the enterprise, announcing restructure plans for Bamboo Airways as well as cutting connections between Bamboo Airways's operations and its "former" owner FLC Group. The official website of Bamboo Airways no longer mentions

2209-436: Was subsequently recognized that Sacombank is looking to invest into the airline and help improving the financial situation of the carrier. In October 2023, Bamboo appointed Luong Hoai Nam as the new CEO while announcing fleet restructuring, hinting that the carrier may decommission its widebody fleet . As of November 2018 , Duong Thi Mai Hoa held the vice-president and general manager positions. Dang Tat Thang held

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