MITO, Ibaraki Pref. — With just a year left until Ibaraki airport opens, South Korea's Asiana Airlines is the only carrier so far that has decided to fly into the airport.

The Ibaraki Prefectural Government is advertising the airport, scheduled to open next March, as the third in the Tokyo metropolitan area after Haneda and Narita.

But the little-known civil airport, which will share runways with the Air Self-Defense Force's Hyakuri Air Base, has failed to attract airlines.