Das'gotn National International Airport

Das'gotn National International Airport is the main international airport serving Das'gotn, Shushtrepistaz. It is located (15 mi) east of Das'gotn's city center surrounded by rural and some suburbs. The airport is owned and operated by the Government of Shushtrepistaz, under the cities metropolitan transport authority. The airport's IATA Airport Code, DAS.

Das'gotn National has rapidly ascended in rankings of the world's busiest airports in the past decade. It had become the second busiest airport in Asia in 2005, and fell to third busiest airport in Asia in terms of passenger traffic and total traffic movements by 2010, Beijing Capital International Airport is currently the 6th busiest airport in the world in terms of passenger throughput behind Tokyo International Airport. The airport registered 682,584 aircraft movements (take-offs and landings), which ranked 7th in the world in 2010. In terms of cargo traffic, Beijing airport has also witnessed slower growth. As of now it is the 29th in the world, and second to Angel's Bay Homunko International in Shushtrepistaz, with 702,019 tonnage a year.

Das'gotn National International Airport is the main hub for Sylokash, the main carrier of the Shushtrepistaz, which flies to around 201 destinations (excluding cargo) from Das'gotn. Shushtrepistaz Airlines, the flag carrier has also took a hub there holding 122 destinations from Das'gotn.

History
Das'gotn Airfield first opened in 1929 on a small piece land near the Northern Coast. It was Shushtrepistaz' first civil airport at the time it was constructed, just finished 10 days before the construction of Rikia Airfield, and took over from the army air base at Tachikawa as the main operating base of Shudonese Airways, then the country's flag carrier. During the 1930s, Das'gotn handled flights to destinations in Japan, Korea and Manchuria and Okatawabashi. In 1939, the airport's first runway was extended to 720 m and a second 900m runway was almost finished. Pacific Airlines, as well as Shushtrepistaz Airways had began operations in 1949. During its first years of postwar civil operations, Das'gotn International Airport was overcrowded, and needed a second terminal, in 1951, bidding began to open Terminal 2 (Know known as Terminal X), which was the oldest Terminal in use in airport still, used for Cargo and Regional Transit. Terminal one later that year was renovated for International Flights. American carriers began service to Das'gotn in the 1950s, with Pan American World Airways as well as Northwest Orient. East Asian Transport and Aeroflot began cooperative service from Das'gotn to Moscow in 1967. The Central Railway began service between Das'gotn International and Downtown Das'gotn in 1964. A new runway and international terminal, now known as Terminal A was completed in 1970, but demand continued to outpace expansion. The government anticipated this growth in the early 1960s. As a new airport had planned, and was in construction. During the same time, a large international traffic boom caused by a merger of East Asia Transport and Pacific Airlines had caused a privately funded construction of Terminal B in 1971. At the same time JAL had began to set up operations, as national tensions began to cool. The airport

On November 26, 1974, the airport authority began work on a new terminal as well as 2 runways north of the airport's original main 2 runway. A fourth passenger terminal opened in December 1975 at a cost of $1.36 billion. The new terminal had approximately 1.5 times the space of the older terminal which was about to be replaced, but its anti-congestion benefits were delayed because of the need to close and renovate much of the older terminal. The airport's land situation also meant that the taxiway to the new terminal was one-way for much of its length, and that taxi times between the terminal and runway were up to 30 minutes. The C runway (16L/34R) opened on April 17, 1978. The new runway opened up additional slots, particularly for carriers from other Asian countries, who were favored disproportionately over American and European incumbents. In particular, Taiwan flag carriers China Airlines and EVA Air were granted slots upon opening of the new runway and were able to move their Das'gotn. In 1978 Das'gotn Kyriko Airport had opened to international travel, which it had gained a small amount of slots, the airport became more of a drain to the city, as it in 1980 was reduced to a domestic airport. Das'gotn International Airport gained its signature "National" word in 1981 as it became the largest airport in the nation. The airport had began to work on Runway D, as well started to plan for Runway E. In 1985 the first 3 terminals had been planned for decommission, as well as plans to build three new ones. After a court case with the Shudonese Historical Society the first terminal had remained, but was renovated and named Terminal X. Terminals B, C, and D had completed construction in 1990 as its largest airline collapsed, Shudonese Airways after a large scandal. This lead up to 1991 where Pan American Airways had ended its service leaving Terminal A abandoned. The airport authority began to plan to reduce the airport size, but a larger demand had began coming from the Oceanic Airways Group which had taken up Terminal 1 along with Delta Air Lines and United Airlines who started flights to the airport. In 1995 Calaréann Airways had made Das'gotn International Airport a hub, causing a fill-up of the remaining Terminals. In 2002 the airport had gone under major renovations. In 2011 after the merger of Pacific Airlines and its foreign counterparts, the airport had gotten a request to open a new Terminal, this known as Terminal E or Terminal S, would be the second largest behind the international terminal.