History
Hasanuddin Airport was built in 1935 by the Government Indies Netherlands, named Kadieng Flying Field and located approximately 22 kilometers to the north of the city. An airfield runway with grass-sized 1600 mx 45 m (Runway 08-26) was inaugurated on September 27, 1937, marked with the commercial flight linking Singapore with the Douglas Aircraft D2/F6 company KNILM (Koninklijke Nederlands Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij). In 1942, the government of Japan expanded the field using POW labor and renamed the field Field Mandai. In 1945, the government partners Dutch built a new runway.
In 1950, the Government of Indonesia Department of Public Works, Section Flying Field, took over the field, and it was transferred to the Civil Aviation, now the Directorate General Air Transportation in 1955, which extended the runway 2,345 m x 45m and renamed the airport Air Mandai. In 1980, the 13-31 runway was built—2500 m x 45 m; it was in this year, that the Port of Air Mandai changed to Air Port Hasanuddin, and in 1981 was again renamed Airports Embarkation / debarkation Hajj in 1985 and the Port of Hasanuddin Air changed its name to Hasanuddin Airport.
On 3 March 1987, the management of Hasanuddin Airport was transferred from the Directorate General of Air Transport to Perum Angkasa Pura I, based on Government Regulation No. 1 / 1987 of 9 January 1987. On January 1, 1993 the status changed to PT (Persero) Angkasa Pura I. On 30 October 1994, Hasanuddin Airport, now International Airport in accordance with the decision of the Minister of Transportation, KM number 61/1994 dated 7 January 1995, and inaugurated by the Governor Level I Regional Head of South Sulawesi Province. 28 March 1995 marked the flight by Malaysia Airlines directly from Kuala Lumpur to Hasanuddin Airport Makassar, then followed with a Silk Air flight that connected Singapore Changi Airport with Hasanuddin. Since 1990, Hasanuddin Airport is used as embarkation / debarkation directly from the pilgrimage to Jeddah.
In addition to this remote Hasanuddin airport before the flight to serve International traffic in control area Eastern Indonesia Makassar UCA (Upper Area Control), which include areas air through the western part of the Kalimantan border to the country Papua New Guinea to the east, and from the border region Air of Australia to the south to the border region Philippine and Oakland in (USA) to the north.
Hasanuddin Airport serves the Eastern Indonesia Area and South Sulawesi Province. On 20 August 2008 the new terminal was operational. The terminal is 5 times larger than the old one and can accommodate most types of aircraft from small aircraft to Boeing 747s
On January 8, 2010, the airport inaugurated its newly built 3100 m runway (3/21) for commercial flights.With the inauguration of the 2nd runway, Hasanuddin became the second airport in Indonesia that has two runways after Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta. It is also the only airport in Indonesia that has a pair of non-parallel (cross like) runway.
Starting early 2013, the local government will started to extend the runway from 3100 m to 3500 m so it can be maximally landed by biggest aircraft such as 747, A340, A380. It's still waiting for the clearance of nearby residency area.
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