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Father Francesco International Airport (Italian: Aeroporto Internazionale Padre Francesco) is the largest airport in Dogoniland and serves as the main airport of Shinjuku. Located between Bracianno and Salesto City, it is the main gateway for tourists travelling into Dogoniland, followed by La Carraca International Airport. It has a total land area of 316,000 m^2, two runways and two terminals that have expanded throughout the years, making it one of the busiest airports in the Dogonilandmass and is the main hub for Pacific Airways and TriColor Airlines.
The airport was named after Francesco Alfonso, the founding father of the Republic of Dogoniland and was the first President of the Dogoniland Government from 1928 - 1935. The FFIA is currently managed by the Shinjuku International Airspace Organization (SIAO) which has been operating the Airport since its opening in 1972.
The FFIA serves the national capital area, the airport can hold to a capacity of serving 10 million passengers every year which occasionally brings air traffic and terminal overflow. On April 2022, Las Grandia Properties, TECHNO-Pavement and the National Airspace Authority have collaborated together to add a new airport situated in Fornacante City just 15 miles east of Shinjuku, a domestic airport for the local area of the Nuova Roma Administrative Area.
History[]
Article: History of Father Francesco International Airport
Shinjuku's Original Airport, Nuova Roma Airport was opened in 1938 with the support of American Architectural Support. The airport was used for both the civil public and the military, being able to travel in countries such as the Japanese Empire, United Kingdom, France, Australia and Italy. After the Japanese Occupation, the airport was used for the Japanese Air Force in conducting bombardments against the allied powers. During this period, the Japanese would also build airfields across Dogoniland for refuel and civil transport. In 1945, the United States and its allies began bombarding Japanese airfields across Dogoniland. After the Japanese surrendered, the United States occupied Dogoniland for around 6 months, which included repairing Nuova Roma Airport. The repairs were later completed, adding a much longer runway and a much more advanced airport terminal with extra security and an air control tower, it later reopened in Fall 1946, serving around 500,000 civilians per year. in 1950, the airport was revamped once again by destroying the old taxiways and rebranding the terminal. In 1954, TriColor Airlines Flight 196 crashed at the end of the runway, failing to deploy its gears which created a massive fire in the cockpit, it killed both of the pilots inside and 6 other passengers, becoming one of the most tragic aerial events in Dogoniland. This left the airport to not be updated for years and the concern of many tourists of the airports dystopian feel and untidiness. Thus, tourism slowly dropped in Dogoniland, leading to protests to revamp the airport again. Eventually in 1965, Italian Architect Malcolm Vincento proposed an new airport for Shinjuku, to abandon the old airport and proceed the advancement of Dogoniland Air Travelling.
The airport concept was planned out by Malcolm Vincento and the National Airspace Authority in 1965, after multiple complaints from Nuova Roma International Airport issuing that airport was usually not tidy and that with the development and tourism being focused in Dogoniland, they needed to have a much bigger and healthier airport in the region. The mayor of Bracianno City, Enrique De Santos proposed some of the city's land area for the beginning and first phase of the new Shinjuku Airport Project, later the first batch of materials were delivered to DAManz Warehouse owned by the NAA. Ultimately, the project began around December 1964, with the first terminal being implemented which comprises of seven jetways, a private lounge, airport tower and total of fifteen entrances, allowing travel to around 108 countries across the world globally. The airport was initially completed on September 1970, but due to limited electricity and communication, the airports opening was postponed on June 7, 1972 as they were still fixing the landlines in the area. On the opening night, 9,000 people arrived in front of the terminal launching fireworks signifying its opening and introduction to future transportation in Dogoniland. On June 8, 1972, the new airport officially opened which involved new jetways and a much cleaner runway, on its first day alone, 38,000 people travelled to multiple countries across the globe with the help of Western Airline Organizations.
As of the status in 1973, FFIA served 1.2 million passengers last year, which would drastically increase the next year to 2.5 million people. Unexpectedly, a fire broke out on October 1973, damaging a restaurant forcing them to close down and revamp, this brought attention to the authorities which they installed fire proof equipment in various areas of the airport. The same year, Pope Paul VI came to the airport to bless the Christian population and to signify the airports baptizing, over 95,000 people visited the place to earn blessing from the Pope. On June 1980, just 8 years after the airport opened, Malcolm Vincento proposed a huge expansion into the airports current terminal, which would include 5 new jetways and a domestic terminal for only the country. Production started in 1981 and later finished on May 25, 1982, increasing tourism and sales for the benefit of the Dogoniland Government. In 1983, a fire station was added to the east side of the main terminal providing 3 airport fire trucks, and a police station near the parking lot, stabilizing the airports security and safety. On August 1986, Jundornev Terrorists infiltrated the airports terminal, taking over a parked 737-200 in the tarmac, with a total of 173 hostages in the aircraft, it took 16 hours before the government would raid the aircraft with its special forces, at least 1 person was killed and all of the terrorists were executed.
In 1990, Angela Barsacchi and Fernando Vincento, the son of architect Malcolm Vincento proposed an entirely new airport zone, which consisted of a second terminal with multiple jetways stretching to around 40 jetways and a total of 65 Tarmacs. Submitted to the NAA, production began in 1991 extending to Salesto City with the approval of mayor Armando Samini. On June 1994, the terminal would be complete, beginning the process of placing designs and comfortness for tourism approval, just next month on July 1994, the Department of National Affairs began inspection in the newly built terminal 2, therefore granted approval within a week after. The terminals access road completed on February 22, 1995, followed on August 8, 1995, TECHNO-Electric and the Communications Corp. completed their installments for the preparation of the terminal's opening. The National Airspace Authority announced that the opening of FFIA 2 would be on January 12, 1996. On its opening day, the airport was cramped to over 100,000 people, and was able to serve around 590,000 people in the first two weeks, later the Nuova Roma Administrative Government declared that the airport can carry a capacity of 22,000 people per day around that time. On the first month, the FFIA served 1.9M people, a huge increase just similar to its first year opening prior in 1973.
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