TSA is a beauty of convenience, I also try to fly from there as much as I can. Just so efficient.
Yes, no lounges (but why would u care when in less than 60 mins you can be from the checkin counter to the gate including passport and security check?), food option a tad limited (still ok though, look at TPE, itās depressing, but have lots of food options at a mere minutes of bus/MRT).
I wish they would introduce new services, but I guess getting at capacity.
Now will fly to HND with NH on 25-Jul, impressive that the B787 can fly into the airport!
Cheapest one-way flights TSA Songshan/Hanada in July are ~NT$10000 but most are NT$13000+. Not even good if wanting to connect to another onward flight.
Doesnāt seem very economical or sensible especially since lots of TPE Taipei/Haneda flights ~NT$5000 and MRT airport express is only $160.
Maybe suitable for daily round trip business travel.
Itās convenient and people are willing to pay the premium for it. I have flown out of TSA to HND on flights connecting to North America though. They werenāt any more expensive than their TPE counterparts though, since I was only connecting.
I live five minutes scooter ride from the airport so itās a no brainer. Iāll be taking the 7.30 am flight to Haneda in October. Worth the extra for the extra time you get in Tokyo and the considerably reduced hassle this end.
It really depends on the connecting flights, but the level of convenience is unparalleled and well worth the premium imo. Donāt need to drive, can relax at home until really the very last, even with MRT is less than 20 mins on the Wenhu line for me. Even my parents in law take the mrt to go to TSA! (My in-laws are the type of ppl who would drive even to go from an aisle to the next aisle at supermarkets).
Manā¦My mind is a bit blown that anyone would want that airport to die. My only problem with it is that I wish it had WAY more flight destinations! Itās great for flying around Taiwan or to HK or Shanghai, but I see no reason it couldnāt also go to other short-flight locations like Okinawa or Clark. Itās so convenient. Having to pay 1000 to take a car 45 minutes (or longer to take the train) to get to Taoyuan is a pain for such short flights.
Also, Iād guess there are national security reasons for maintaining an air facility in the capital city.
I wonder what the poster who thought Taipei rent was high in 2011 thinks about it now? It was pretty affordable back then. Less so now, but Iām not convinced removing the airport would fix that.
The DPP mayoral candidates, back in those days, kept banging on about how TSA should be closed. They liked to mention that they would turn this space into a lovely new park.
What they didnāt mention was how (presumably their buddies?) in the adjacent Datong District of the city would benefit by having height restrictions on their buildings lifted.
It was former president Maānot someone I usually agree withāwho championed the expanded use of this airport, forcing a rerouting of the Brown Line extension to include a Songshan Airport stop (the original routing into Dazhi and Neihu would have bypassed the airportāhave a look at the airport detour in this route):
In principle that would be great. But the former would be very leisure heavy, with almost no business traffic, and the latter? I donāt know enough about it to say.
Wow and that was 13 years ago. Its only got worse since then, way worse.
Also every KMT *and DPP politician.
Why? I took a walk over that way recently. Its already got the most (non river park) park space of anywhere in Taipei, by far. If you want to go to a nice park just go to yang ming mountain. Of course its hard to enjoy that park space with planes flying over your head every 20 minutes. But still, the fact remains thereās no need to build a park there.
HaHaaaaaaa good one.
Interesting discussion though. What would really happen with the land if/when that tinpot airport is closed?
Would the Taipei govt suddenly get a change of heart and turn all 100 blocks worth into affordable quality public housing?
Or would 100 blocks worth of 50 floor+ (no height restrictions anymore) luxury apartments for the rich be constructed, allowing those rich to add to their collection while half stay empty and help absolutely nobody while even more now taller luxury real estate around the previous height restricted flight path are built.
My guess is it will just turn into another one of these.
high flyers on private jets want to land on TSA because its 40 minutes closer to the capital. not surprisingly, these demographics are the main contributors for the politicians.
If the powers that be wanted to save Keelung some industrialist would upgrade its airport to accomodate jets (and build some nicer hotels too) then get a direct flight from TSA.
Yes for sure before TPE came to be in 1979 TSA was Taiwanās main and only international airport
KHH had no international flights and Taichung didnāt have its international airport either
Taichung had the tiny Shuinan airport serving only turboprops no jets
A handful of Far Eastern and China Airlines 737 and 727 and Sud Aviation Caravelles served the domestic routes only along with turboprops YS11 and Vickers Viscount on some routes
I used to know each one by their tail numbers and there only a handful
TPE only had limited flights IIRC Pan Am and TWA briefly flew 720 into TSA and Northwest had a daily jumbo flight
China Airlines also flew 747 into there as well as Singapore Airlines
Canāt remember if there were other airlines flying the jumbo there
Cathay flew the L1011 there and Malaysian and Thai had DC10 as the largest planes going there along with DC8 and Cathay flew the Convair 880 there prior to the 707s and later the L1011s
Japan airlines flew the DC8 there donāt think ANA even flew to TSA then
Think PAL flew DC8 and 727 (been on both with them ) to TSA
Tommy had just started flying around and missed most of the action only having landed in a Northwest 747 and one take off each in a PAL 727 and DC8
And a few 737 flights in and out
And then TPE opened
After which TSA was supposed to be domestic only and they put up some structures so that now the largest planes allowed in are 787 and A330 when the airport started up some limited international flights again
