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Jeju International Airport (RKPC/CJU) is the principal gateway to Jeju Island, South Korea, and the second-busiest airport in the country after Incheon. Sitting on the northern coast of the island close to Jeju City, it handles enormous domestic traffic on the Jeju-Seoul Gimpo route, long cited as the world's busiest air corridor, alongside a growing range of international services across East and Southeast Asia.
Jeju International Airport lies on the northern edge of Jeju Island, immediately adjacent to Jeju City, and is operated by the Korea Airports Corporation under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. It opened in 1968 and has grown into South Korea's second-largest airport, serving as a focus city for Korean Air and Asiana Airlines and as the operating base for Eastar Jet, Jeju Air and Jin Air. For a simulator pilot it offers a busy, well-equipped island airport with a long ILS-served main runway, a shorter crosswind runway, and constant airline traffic feeding the famously congested Jeju-Seoul Gimpo route.
The airport sits on the coastal fringe of Jeju City on Jeju Island, in the far south of South Korea. As a large international airport handling scheduled airline traffic to mainland Korea, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, it lies within controlled airspace commensurate with a major hub, though the sources consulted do not detail the specific airspace classification or boundaries.
Jeju has two physical runways. The main runway, 07/25, is 10,408 feet long with a hard surface, is lit, and is equipped with an ILS. The secondary runway, 13/31, is also hard-surfaced and lit, with the 13 threshold giving a landing distance of 6,271 feet and the 31 threshold 4,912 feet. Field elevation is 82 feet.
Jeju works Tower on 118.1 MHz, Ground on 121.65 MHz, Approach on 119 MHz and Departure on 121.2 MHz, with ATIS broadcast on 126.8 MHz. A miscellaneous frequency of 120 MHz is listed under the callsign Brickwall. The main runway, 07/25, is equipped with an ILS for instrument approaches.
Jeju International Airport opened on 26 April 1968 and has since grown into South Korea's second-busiest airport after Incheon. The Jeju-Seoul Gimpo route it anchors became recognised as the busiest airline route in the world, with over 13.7 million passengers carried on it in 2023 alone. On 10 August 1994, Korean Air Flight 2033, an Airbus A300-600R arriving from Seoul, overran the runway while attempting to land. Persistent growth in passenger numbers, which passed 30 million in 2019 against a designed capacity of 26 million, has driven long-running but repeatedly delayed plans for a second Jeju airport near Seogwipo, complicated by environmental concerns over the island's groundwater and protected species.
Jeju continues to operate as a major commercial airport, handling a dense mix of domestic services to cities such as Busan, Seoul-Gimpo, Daegu and Gwangju alongside international routes to destinations in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. It functions as the home base for Eastar Jet, Jeju Air and Jin Air, and as a focus city for Korean Air and Asiana Airlines, meaning arriving and departing traffic levels are consistently high, particularly on the Gimpo shuttle route.