Chiang Kai-shek Airport

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
IATA: TPE ICAO: RCTP
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Government of the Republic of China
Operator	Taoyuan International Airport Corporation
Serves	Taipei
Location	Dayuan, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Hub for	China Airlines EVA Air UNI Air Tigerair Taiwan Far Eastern Air Transport
Focus city for	Cathay Pacific Mandarin Airlines Vanilla Air Thai Airways Scoot
Elevation AMSL	33 m / 108 ft
Coordinates	25°4′35″N 121°13′26″E / 25.07639°N 121.22389°E / 25.07639; 121.22389Coordinates: 25°4′35″N 121°13′26″E / 25.07639°N 121.22389°E / 25.07639; 121.22389
Website	www.taoyuan-airport.com
Map
TPE Location in Taiwan
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 05L/23R 3,660 12,008 Asphalt concrete 05R/23L 3,800 12,467 Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2016)
Number of passengers 42,296,322 Aircraft Movement 244,464 Airfreight Movements (kg) 2,097,228,000
Sources: Civil Aeronautics Administration, Ministry of Transportation and Communications

Number of passengers	42,296,322
Aircraft Movement	244,464
Airfreight Movements (kg)	2,097,228,000

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (IATA: TPE, ICAO: RCTP) is an international airport serving the capital city of Taipei, Taiwan, and northern parts of the island. Located about 40 km (25 mi) west of Taipei in Dayuan District, Taoyuan, the airport is Taiwan's largest and busiest airport. It is one of five Taiwanese airports with regular international flights, and is operated by the Taoyuan International Airport Corporation. In 2016, it was ranked the best airport for its size in the Asia-Pacific region by Airports Council International.

The airport opened for commercial operations in 1979 and is an important regional trans-shipment center, passenger hub, and gateway for destinations in Asia. Formerly known as Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (CKS International Airport), the airport was renamed on 6 September 2006 to its current name. It is one of two that serves Taipei; the other, Taipei Songshan Airport, is located within city limits and served as Taipei's only international airport until 1979. Songshan now mainly serves chartered flights, domestic flights, and limited international flights.

In 2016, Taiwan Taoyuan handled a record 42.3 million passengers and 2.1 billion kg of freight, making it the 11th busiest airport worldwide by international passenger traffic, and 6th busiest in terms of international freight traffic in 2015. It is the main international hub for China Airlines and EVA Air.

The airport, originally planned as Taoyuan International Airport, bore the name of late President Chiang Kai-shek until 2006. In Chinese, its former name was literally "Chung-Cheng (Zhongzheng) International Airport", where Chung-Cheng is the legal given name that Chiang Kai-shek had used since the 1910s. In Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek is associated with the Chinese Nationalist Party or Kuomintang and its many years of one-party authoritarian rule. Local officials in Taoyuan City and members of the Pan-Green Coalition often referred to the hub by the name originally associated with it: "Taoyuan International Airport". News organizations and local residents sometimes combined the two commonly used names as "Taoyuan Chung-Cheng Airport."