Polaris-City International Airport

Polaris-City International Airport

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Key details
Name	Polaris-City International Airport
Native name	Polaris International Airport
ACAO code	PCY
AATA code	IPCY
Type of airport	International airport
Hub for	SkyJet Airways, CP Airways, StarJet,
Owned/Operated by	National Airports Authority
Location	Polaris, Eastshield
Runways
Runway	Runway 9R/27L (12,700 ft., Concrete)
Runway	Runway 9L/27R (13,000 ft. Concrete)
Runway	Runway 10L/28R (13,000 ft, Concrete)
Statistics
No. of Passengers	93,672,511
Aircraft Movements	1,082,637

Polaris-City International Airport (ACAO Code: PLS, AATA Code: IPLS) is a major international airport serving the city of Polaris, and is located on an small island, commonly known as Airport Island. The island and the airport are located 9 miles adjacent to the Polaris Island Downtown area, and is connected to the island by a 9 mile long tunnel, and by two bridges, connecting the island to Victory Hill and Battleford Plains districts. The island is located at the entrance of the Polaris Bay, at the Polaris Barrier Islands.

The airport handled an estimated 92,453,452 passengers, with over 45 airlines operating from the airport. About 39.71% of all passengers at the airport flew with SkyJet Airways, making ut the most prominent carrier at the airport. Currently, the airport operates 2,910 flights daily as of the 2010 annum, and is expected to pass South Pole City-Metro in both aircraft movements and passenger numbers in 2011. The amount of passengers per day equates to about 256,000, with a majority of them being domestic flights.

As of 2010, the airport operates several flights to Eastshield,Trans-Antarctica, Happyface State,Antarctic Peninsula, the Ninja Archipelago, the MAI, UTR, and Latin Antarctica. The busiest routes operating from the airport are the South Pole City, Club Penguin City and Puerto Elanor routes.

History

Construction(1965-1972)

With the burgeoning economic activities seen within Polaris during the early 1960s, the lack of an airport as the era of long-haul train passenger service had came to a close had differentiated Polaris from economic centres such as South Pole City, which had already been in the process of constructing its second major airport as Polaris was beginning to establish its own major air terminal for passengers and freight. The Polaris City Council, had drafted a resolution to establish and maintain an airport within the city's vicinity,; Ble to handle the wide-bodied aircraft used by airlines across the continent. The Governor for the District of Polaris committed approximately $56.57 million for the construction of the airport, whose location remained a perhaps unanswerable question to even the most experienced civil engineers.

Though the city itself is based on a strong, thick layer of bedrock, enabling the city to maintain its substantial amount of high-rises, there existed no place in proximity to the downtown core of the city. Surveyors suggested the nearest available site would have been 35 miles away, considering the lack of available space within Polaris City. Scattered throughout Polaris Bay, the Barrier Islands situated along the coast of Polaris acted as an urban getaway for the businessmen of the city, development, perhaps booming. If by a miracle, the largest island, Arianasa Island was particularly flat, and measured approximately 4,450 hectares in area, ideal for the construction of the airport. The developer, Janoc-Delmar Properties went under receivership in July 1963, had liquidated its assets, selling the island to the Polarian government; citing lack of potential customers to the island, located a few miles from the city's center.

With the approval of the project by the Governor of the District, AME/Partners and Pan-Antarctic Contractors were commissioned to design an airport able to handle over 100 million passengers per annum, as predicted by several major analysts early on in the process. The plan conceived by the commissioned contractors would have five runways, three of which were parallel at 9/27, the other two also being parallel at 10/28. One runway, (9L/27R) was to be built on an artificial extension of the island, in order to relieve congestion on the airport. The contractors suggested having virtually parallel runways in order to maximize the amount of events which are able to occur daily. The island would be accessible to vehicular traffic through a 9-mile long road and rail tunnel in addition to a variety of bridges (one of which; a four-lane concrete pier bridge had been built beforehand in 1955), which would culminate in a semi-circular road, accessing the multiple terminals, arrivals and departures areas, as well as a prodigious parking facility and car rental plaza situated between the semi-circular road. The terminals would be interconnected through an inter-terminal monorail line, and would adopt a new concept of airport terminals, semi-circular terminals and piers, which allow for aircraft to be parked on both sides of a facility, as opposed to a conventional airport design, in which only one side of a terminal would be available to use for aircraft parking. The terminals were purposely spaced far from one another, and created large ramps, in order to accommodate future expansion of the aircraft facilities.

Having reviewed the plan for three months, the Airport Development Board, a ad-hoc commission created by Governor G.A. Karlsburg in 1964 in order to find any discrepancies and missteps within the plan. Finding no significant faults within the plans, contractors had assembled swaths of machinery, and 24,750 workers, skilled and non-skilled in order to complete the airport by the start of the next decade on January 2nd, 1965. First to be built were the essential components of the airport, the apron, taxiiways and runways (with the exception of Runway 9L/27R) had been completed by November 23rd, 1970. Alongside the runways, the roads, tunnels and bridges which provided access to the airport had commenced construction in February 1965, however, this infrastructure had been slower to complete than the runways, having finished all progress on the bridges and roads (with the exception of the road/rail tunnel, which was completed in 1978), had concluded two days prior to the opening of the airport itself.

Construction of the terminals had finished in its entirety on the 2nd of April, 1972, where the roads had been completed; the air terminal prepared for its first departure. Since the airline industry in the continent years was in its stages of infancy, having only two major airlines dominating the airline industry, Club Penguin AirFlights, which continues to operate at the present, and Air Penguin, a primitive pioneer of the airline industry, having delivered thousands of pounds of cargo yearly, albeit carrying only a handful of passengers aboard its fleet. The first scheduled, for-profit departure at the airport occurred on April 3, 1972 in which Club Penguin AirFlights had inaugurated a newly-built Snowing 707-200 at the airport, through a ceremony attended by the Governor of the Polaris District, in addition to the Mayor of Polaris at the time being. At first, Club Penguin AirFlights had been the only airline to service the city, Thus, it left seven terminals empty for several years to come, citing a lack of passenger traffic, although were maintained meticulously by the airport administration in the years between the construction of each terminal, and its usage thereafter. Club Penguin AirFlights operated feight non-stop services from its exclusive terminal, offering thrice-daily service to South Pole City, Club Penguin, New Club Penguin, and Frostborough. Twice-daily services were offered to the cities of Snowville, Penguville, Enderby City and Dodson.

Expansion and development (1971 to present)

In 1973, a second airline, sponsored by the Water Kingdom government,known as Royal Air Lines, commenced operations in Terminal 2 of the airport. The expansion of the service to Terminal 2 of the airport had reaffirmed that the government's intentions for the airport were good.immense subsidies went into Royal Air Lines, the Governor of Polaris was keen on making intercity air travel, both domestically and internationally, affordable for all Polarians. Compared to privatized air carriers such as Penguin Chat Airways, Royal Air Lines introduced fares significantly lower, and expanded service to more cities, in modern aircraft, than ever offered at the air terminal before. This drastically increased competition between airlines, and lowered prices, which introduced air travel as the replacement for rail as the main method to travel the continent for middle-class Polarians.

Airlines and destinations

Terminal 1

• SkyJet Airways: South Pole City-Metro, Newton Town, Slumolia, Neo Domino City, TerraMount, Club Penguin City-International, Satellite City, Boundtown, Chicklon,Scoodlepeep,Snowdon, Mojave, Carcery, Pengu Town, Sunday Harbor, Happyface City, Margate City, Rockhopper Island, Snellville, Sherbian City, Middle Island,Arda, Manley Ville, Mhic Lionnai, Flurryville, Angel Island, Saint-Moritz, Bern, Florence, East Bank City, New West City, Iceland, Philaworld, Mouseport, Misty Island, Charles Island, Fishwow (seasonal), Penguiki Island, Jokio-Yammamoto Kanapa Town, Middle Island,Los Penguines, Flystar City, Elterbrast, Outer Club Penguin,Zurich, Saint Moritz, Bern, Beachville, Sealville,Ternville, Tharntonville, Googolplex, Afens, Sparka, Denes,Peibing-Capital,Honk Gong,Mabila, Ceru City,Torona-Persan,Dellaroma, Wien, Boorlin, Newton Town, Aquarius, Ulaansnowtar, Shiverpool, East Bank City, GourdZoid, Enderby City,Penguville,Ternville,Inland, Half Pipe,Iceland,Frostize, Zurich, Parie,St. Ninjianisburg, Vancooler, Callery, Hollifox, Montrealm, Penguville, Glassyglow,,Bezul City,Akbaboy City, Nakamura, AdelVille,Ellis, Rougetown/Kimberly County, Halbourg,GourdZoid, Bezul City, Buenos Suelo, Inningsbruck, Santa Juanita, Las Puffles, Frostize, Gemini, Claxton, Gardenville,Ternville, Southern Ocean City, Elterbrast, ,Delmont Town, Willburgh, Ciudad Veija,Andera Town, Dukeston, Solace, Mistral, Vallera, Cabo Esperanza, Ville-du-Vincent, Culldrome Isles, Vonkouver, Dodson, Millsburg, Penguin City

• SkyJet Shuttle: Enderby City, Millsburg, Finestade, Dodson, Penguville, Snowville, Vanceton, Larsen City, San Alvarez, Puerto Elanor, Solace, Mistral, Wallis, Arthford, Glanell, Barasso, Hainswich, Dahlson, Samperdon, Reinsal, Vespasi,

Terminal 2

• Air Arctica:Serbian City
• Air South Pole:South Pole City-Metro
• CityExpress Airways:South Pole City-Orion Freddy, Enderby City, Nightlife City, New Happyface City, Iceland, Club Penguin City-Int'l,
• Frosian Airwaves: Philawind, South Pole City-Metro
• FlyPancake:Southern Ocean City
• Southern Ocean Airlines:Southern Ocean City

Terminal 3

• UTA: Neo Domino City, New Club Penguin, Satellite City
• AirTerra:New Club Penguin
• Club Penguin AirFlights: South Pole City-Dellas, Club Penguin City-Int'l,
• Weddell Airways:Shield City
• CP Airways: Rockhopper Island, Club Penguin City-International, Club Penguin Island,Bobtropica, Lincon Port, Ross Island, V2V Island, Palm Island, Saint-Mortiz, Inland, West Yeti (seasonal), Rasington,Flurryville, New Club Penguin, Chicklon, Afens, Denes, Sparka, Googolplex, Ninja City,New Happyface City, Iceland, Wentley, New West City, Kanapa, Gemini, Aquarius, Pengu Town, Newton Town, South Pole Cott, Outer Club Penguin, Scoodlepeep, Neo Domino City, Satellite City, Shiverpool, Carcery, Ulaansnowtar, Tharntonville, Sealville, Zurich, Saint Moritz, Bern,Angel Island,Ulaansnowtar, Glassyglow,New Con, Chase City, Gold City,New Club Penguin, Satellite City, Nib, Fishwow, Gentoo Island, Ross Island,EmotiVille,Southwest Slumolia, Flystar City, Ternville, Snellville,Doble Islands,South Pole City-Metro, Dellaroma, Wien, Vonkouver,

Terminal 4

• Air Antarctic:Shiverpool,Glassyglow,Inland, East Bank Town, Sealville, Gentoo Island (seasonal), Pengyboo Island, Ross Island, Frostborough, Club Penguin City-International, Club Penguin Island, New Club Penguin, Flystar City, Ninja City, New Happyface City,

Island,Blizzardville

• Antarctic Airlink operated by ExpressAir:Enderby City, Ternville, Glassyglow, Amery Island, Snellville, Penguville,Snowville, South Pole City-Metro, New Happyface City, Enderby City, Gardenville, Ellis, Outer Club Penguin, Wilkeston
• CP Airways Express operated by SkyUnion: Club Penguin City-Amherty, Newton Town, Ternville, Snellville, Snowville, Glassyglow, Iceland, Frostborough, Gemini, Outer Club Penguin, Half Pipe,Ellis, Gardenville, Halbourg, Rougetown/Kimberly County, Puerto Elanor, Solace, Mistral, Wilkeston,Vallera,
• CP Airways Express operated by Eastwind Airlines: South Pole City-Metro, Club Penguin City-Amherty
• Airlines of New North Etana: Wentley
• Air Pengolia: Ulaansnowtar
• Antarctic Airlines: Ed Island, South Pole City-Metro

Terminal 5

• Aer Frysland: Frostborough,Pengitton, Ard Mhaca, Flurryville, Mhic Lionnai, Chinook
• Pacifica Airlines : Frostize, Metido, Parie, Dellaroma, Snowdon, Munchen
• Zurich Airlines : Zurich, Boorlin, Wien
• TransAir: Ice City, Newton Town, Sealville, South Pole City-Metro
• Margate Antarctic Airlines: South Pole City-Metro, Margate City
• Dorkair.co.dk: South Pole City, Googolplex, Sparka, Lichenblossom
• Orbit Oceanic Airways:New Club Penguin, Satellite City,Neo Domino City
• PuffleAir:Manley Ville
• Air Calada:Torona-Persan, Vancooler
• Penguin World Air: Penguin City

Terminal 6

• PenguinConnection operated by SpiritAir: Blizzardville, Club Penguin City-Amherty
• PenguinConnection operated by SkyUnion: Blizzardville
• Farleyan Airlines: Tharntonville, South Pole City-Metro
• FlyStar Airways:Flystar City
• Emperorlands Airlines:Capital Emperor City
• Air Ternville:Ternville, South Pole City
• Orbit Antarctica:Newton Town,Blizzardville, Ternville, Shiverpool, Aquarius,Club Penguin City-Amherty,Gemini

Facilities

The airport itself is situated on 4,258 hectares of land situated on the Airport Island within the city of Polaris, at an elevation of 29.5 feet above the sea level, rendering it to be one of the lowest airports in terms of elevation in all of Antarctica. Served by five runways, the airport is able to handle swaths of air traffic due to the nature of the construction of the runways and their alignment. Runway 09L/27R is located on an artificial jetty connected to the taxiiway to the main terminals by two taxiiways. The runway is renowned for its famous approach, as it is the sole approach with close proximity to the skyscrapers of Polaris Island, however, is seldom used for takeoffs. The airport has been noted to suffer erosion from the formidable waters of Polaris Bay, but has been encased in a thick concrete seawall to halt the expansion of the erosion.

Each of the passenger terminals are centered around an oblong, open-ended, eight-lane service known as the PAE (Polaris Airport Expressway) and runs 12.5 miles from Polaris Highway 1, which directly connects with the city center of Polaris. There exists eight passenger terminals, two of which are dedicated exclusively to individual or amalgamnated groups of air carriers. There are 237 gates in total, a plurality, (62), apportioned to Terminal 1. The smallest of the terminals is Terminal 5, which was originally conceived as a commuter airline terminal, yet services international carriers. Over its existence, the terminals have been renovated immensely, and are not so recogizable from their appearances when the airport had been first inaugurated.

Passenger Terminals

Terminal 1

Termianl 1 is the largest out of the six terminals and is exclusive to SkyJet Airways and it's affiliates SkyJet Express and SkyJet Flyer. The Terminal is divided into two concourses, Concourse A and Concourse B. The larger, more prominent one is Concourse A, which has twenty-nine gates in total and is utilized for mainline operations for SkyJet Airways. The second concourse is Concourse B, which has sixteen gates in total, and is used for regional operations of SkyJet Flyer.

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 is one of the smallest terminals at the airport, and only has 7 gates. Terminal 2 was originally the Concourse C of the Terminal 1. However, following an appeal from two airlines, CityExpress Airways and Air South Pole, Terminal 2 was segregated from Terminal 1. The terminal has three holing lounges and one ExpressLounge, operated by current tenant CityExpress Airways.

Terminal 3

Terminal 3 is located adjacent to Terminals 1 and 4. This terminal is served by CP Airways, Club Penguin AirFlights, Weddell Airways, UTA and AirTerra. The terminal is divided into two piers, Pier D and Pier E. Pier D has 6 gates, and is home to all airlines excluding CP Airways. Pier E has 14 gates and is exclusive to CP Airways. The terminal also has many gourmet restaurants and shopping outlets as well.

Terminal 4

Terminal 4 is served by Air Antarctic, Antarctic Airlink, CP Airways Express, Airlines of New North Etana and Air Pengolia. Unlike the other terminals, Terminal 4 only has one concourse, which is called Pier G. Pier G has 15 gates, and has many restaurants and snack stalls. A PremiumLounge operated by Air Anatrctic is also located here. Terminal 4 is located adjacent to Terminals 3 and 5.

Terminal 5

Terminal 5 is colloquially known as the "International Terminal" due to the large presence of international carriers at the terminal. Terminal 5 is segregated into Piers I and H. Pier I is served by Aer Frysland, Pacifica Airlines,Margate Antarctic Airlines and Dorkair.co.dk. Pier I is larger than Pier H, as Pier I has 10 gates, whilst Pier H has only 5. Pier H is served by Air Calada,Orbit Oceanic Airways,Trans Air and PuffleAir.

Inter-Terminal Transport

Inter-terminal transport between terminals is serviced by the AirportExpress trains, which offer direct service from each terminal.The network connects all six terminals, the airport's train station located adjacent to Terminal 2, and the Airport's parking garages on the mainland, and is connected via a bridge. A bus service is also available to the commuter terminal as well. The trains travel at a speed of 95 miles per hour, and carry more than 81,882,550 passengers a year according to some estimates. The trains are operated by LINX National, a division of the Antarctic Express.

Road

Road access to Polaris-City International Airport is provided through the John Chan Memorial Bridge, a truss bridge that has two decks, the upper one being for automotive traffic, with 6 lanes and 3 on each carriageway. The bottom one is a four track rail bridge. Two tracks are regular train tracks for the Airport Express and Polaris Shuttle trains. Another two are used for light-rail vehicles such as the Polaris TramExpress system. The bridge has a toll of 1.00 Fish and serves over 16,000 cars per day.The bridge spans 4,100 meters, and is one of the longest bridges. Parking is available on the mainland on a five story underground parking garage located beneath Apex Center, a 566 ft. tall condomnium. Three other parking garages, all with 5 levels of parking are also located near here.

Train

The airport can be accessed via train through the Polaris Shuttle transit network, which operates from 56 stations and the Polaris-Pinnacle Center, the main train terminus in the city. There are 5 trains that operate in and out of the Airport's train station, which is located at the center of the Polaris Airport Access Loop, a 18 mile road that extends from the mainland and back. The train station has 3 platforms, and a small waiting area and ticket counters. SkyJet Airways passengers are also given a 3 free Polaris Shuttle train rides, if they present their boarding passes.

See also

• Polaris
• MammothAir