Hawai‘i Island Airports and Airlines
- main information source: Hawai‘i Airports at the State
Department of Transportation
- the state airport division, Hawai‘i district, manages 4 airports on the
island
- Hilo
International
(ITO)
- Kona International at Keahole
(KOA)
- AirNav info
- the most busy on the island, with full-size passenger jets
arriving from the mainland as well as smaller inter-island planes
- one problem: the USGS DLG files (which describe the coastline,
roads and airfield boundaries) are seriously wrong
for the area around Keahole point
- the image the right shows the DLG data overlaid on an (accurate)
satellite image. Notice that the blue coastline is accurate until
approaching the point, and that the grey airfield perimeter is
way south of where it actually is.
- In 2007, the Google 3D Warehouse had four structure there,
Kona International Airport by
Doc. I could not find them as of 2015.
- Waimea-Kohala (MUE)
- Upolu (UPP)
- Airlines serving the island:
- United
- JAL
- flies 747-400 to KOA
- typical daily schedule: flight JL 070 arrives 0920, flight JL
079 leaves 1035
- Hawaiian
- Twenty-seven aircraft:
2 DC-10-30 299 seats
10 DC-10-10 304 seats
15 DC-9-50 133 seats
- uses the DC-9s on interisland routes and DC-10s to the mainland
- flights into KOA from Kahului, Honolulu and LA
- flights into ITO from Kahului and Honolulu
- what structures need to be modelled to give the visual experience of
arriving at the airport?
- runway, terminal buildings, tarmac stairs
- other airports shows in the DLG data are: Old Kona, Waimea, and Hilo
(all of which have accurate DLG boundaries)
- could use a commercial service such as FlightTracker (is it
online anymore?) to track flights in real time, updating the virtual world
accordingly, or simply use a flight arrival/departure log of a typical day?
- Heliports
- there are a handful of small private airstrips as well, including
pohakuloa's
Bradshaw (army)
Helicopter tours
- Blue Hawaiian Helicopters
- has great hype: "this popular action packed tour will leave you
awestruck at the incredible beauty..."
- Hawaii Helicopters (site down)
- Mauna Kea Helicopters
- lists as landing sites:
Waimea-Kohala Airport
Hilo International Airport
Waikoloa Heliport
Mauna Lani Resort
Kona Village Resort
- other companies:
Big Island Air,
Hilo K & S Helicopters,
Volcano
Volcano Heli-Tours,
Hawaii Island Hoppers
- 3 helicopter types used by these companies: added to
art list