1. How many passengers flew to and from Japan?In 1954, the number of travellers transported between Japan and the rest of the world was 115, 000. It increased to 3, 600, 000 in 1970. The average annual rate of increase during the 16 years was 20% or 10 per cent above the average of the world.
The following six features are found in those passenger traffic:
a. Japanese passengers grew in number very rapidly
b. Americans formed a large percentage of all foreigners —50% of all
c. transit passengers accounted for a high percentage of all —30%
d. most of the passengers flew on the routes connecting Japan with North America, Hawaii and the countries in Southeast Asia
e. travellers for pleasure rose conspicuously in number year after year
f. Japanese travellers' originating points and foreign tourists' visiting places in Japan multiplied in number year by year
Since the volume of air traffic in the Tokyo and Osaka area had grown so much as to exceed their capacity, a new international airport was decided to be built at Narita in Chiba prefecture, and its construction has nearly been completed: the one for the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto area is under consideration now.
2. What percentage Kyushu accounts for?As in other areas in Japan, the majority of international travellers originating and arriving in the Kyushu district is now carried by plane, and Fukuoka airport in Fukuoka prefecture is Kyushu's main gateway for cultural exchange with foreign nations.
The features in the flow of travellers accomodated by the airport are as follows:
a. Japanese nationals predominate the tourists
b. all the travellers fly either between Japan and Okinawa—now in Japanese possession—or between Japan and the Southeast Asian countries
c. number of the international passengers passed through Itatzuke accounts for only 3% of all the international passengers of Japan
How many international travellers in 1985?
The volume of passenger traffic will grow, though it may rise and fall with business conditions, in the long run. The introduction of jumbo jets and SSTs is expected to encourage air travels. It is foreseen that, in 1985, the volume will reach 44, 700, 000 in number, and that the cargo traffic will reach 315, 000 metric tons: The number of Japanese tourists will rise further, and will command 57% of all: the visiting places of Japanese travellers in foreign countries and those of foreign travellers in Japan will be dispersed more widely than they are now.
How many will fly to and from Kyushu in future?
It is forecasted that Kyushu will form 4% of all Japan's international passengers in 1985, and that the Japanese will account for 60% of the Kyushu passengers: Fukuoka's volume of traffic will form 30% of all Kyushu's passengers: the number of travellers enplaning and deplaning in the Kyushu district will be 74, 000 in the year, excluding those who fly between Kyushu and the People's Republic of China, if the district remains to be directly connected solely with the Southeast Asian countries by airliner service.
Does Kyushu need another international aerodrome?
Though the above forecast of the passenger traffic seems to lead to the conclusion that there is no need for a new international airportin the district, the present writer firmly believes, for the following reasons, that it is absolutely necessary for Kyushu to have one. And as for its site, the writer wishes to locate it in Fukuoka prefecture, Saga prefecture or in the north of Kumamoto prefecture preferably.
a. It was principally a very rapid growth in domestic passenger traffic that has caused the volume of air traffic in the two areas in Honshu or the Main Island to reach capability limit of the two airports.
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