Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Kansai airport (KIX) officials announced Thursday that typhoon-damaged Kansai International Airport would resume operations of some domestic flights Friday.
Peach Aviation, a low-cost carrier based at Kansai airport, will become the first airline to operate flights since the facility was closed Tuesday — after Typhoon Jebi caused flooding that damaged the main runway and tarmac, and drove a tanker into the bridge connecting the airport to the mainland halting its use.
In a press release late Thursday night, Peach whose operation is based at undamaged Terminal 2 said that six flights would depart Friday for Niigata, Nagasaki, Narita, Naha, Kagoshima and Sendai. A total of 11 flights would arrive at Kansai airport from those six cities as well as Fukuoka and Kushiro.