Yoron Airport

Airport in Yoronjima , Japan

RORY

Location in Japan

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RORY

RORY (Japan)

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Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
14/32	1,200	3,937	Asphalt concrete

Statistics (2015)

Passengers	77,875
Cargo (metric tonnes)	59
Aircraft movement	2,904

Source: Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism^[1]

Yoron Airport (与論空港, Yoron Kūkō) (IATA: RNJ, ICAO: RORY) is a third-class airport located on Yoronjima (Yoron Island) in Kagoshima Prefecture Japan.

History

Yoron Airport was opened on 1 May 1976 (48 years ago) (1976-05-01). On 12 May 2005, the runway was strengthened to enable operations by the Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Japan Air Commuter	Amami Ōshima, Kagoshima
Ryukyu Air Commuter	Naha

References

^ "Yoron Airport" (PDF). Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.

External links

Media related to Yoron Airport at Wikimedia Commons

Yoron Airport Guide from Japan Airlines
Current weather for RORY at NOAA/NWS
Accident history for RNJ at Aviation Safety Network

Airports in Japan

¹ Joint civil-military use

Major hubs

International

Hokkaidō	Asahikawa Hakodate
Tōhoku	Akita Aomori Sendai
Kantō	Ibaraki (Hyakuri)¹
Chūbu	Komatsu¹ Niigata Shizuoka Toyama
Chūgoku	Hiroshima Miho–Yonago¹ Okayama
Shikoku	Kōchi Matsuyama Takamatsu
Kyushu	Kitakyushu Nagasaki Oita Saga¹ Kagoshima Kumamoto Miyazaki
Okinawa	Ishigaki (Painushima) Shimojishima¹