Sapporo/New Chitose Airport serves the Sapporo metropolitan region in Japan. The airport is the main gateway to the Hokkaido Prefecture, an important industrial and tourist destination in northern ...

A pair of wayward deer forced the operator of Hokkaido's New Chitose Airport to close both runways for almost an hour. The trespassing animals were eventually driven off the grounds.

A Japan Airlines plane has caught fire at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. Firefighters are extinguishing the blaze. Japan Airlines says the plane is Flight 516 from New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido to ...