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Chengdu–Tianfu
Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (; also known as Tianfu Airport) is one of two international airports serving Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwestern China. It was planned in 2013 and opened in 2021 as Chengdu Shuangliu Airport was exceeding its designed maximum passenger capacity for years. The airport is located at Lujia Town of Jianyang, southeast of downtown Chengdu. The construction of this airport began in May 2016, and the airport opened in June 2021. Chengdu is the third city in China to have dual international airports after Beijing and Shanghai. In 2023, Chengdu Tianfu International Airport and Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport together handled a total of 538,000 flight takeoffs and landings, with a passenger volume of 74.924 million. The annual passenger volume makes Chengdu 3rd among the cities with airport systems in China. Chengdu Tianfu International Airport alone ranks 39th between the busiest airports in the world, the fifth-bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is an international airport serving Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The airport codes were inherited from the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (former), former Baiyun Airport, and the IATA code is derived from Guangzhou's historical romanization ''Canton''. Baiyun Airport serves as a hub for China Southern Airlines, FedEx Express, 9 Air, Hainan Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines. In 2020, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on aviation in other countries, it was temporarily the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic, handling 43.8 million passengers. In 2023, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was the world's twelfth-List of busiest airports by passenger traffic, busiest airport by passenger traffic, with 63.1 million passengers handled, and the List of the busiest airports in China, busiest in China. As for cargo traffic, the airport was China's second-busiest and the world's List of busiest airports by cargo traffic, el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suvarnabhumi Airport
Suvarnabhumi Airport is the main international airport serving Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. Located mostly in Racha Thewa subdistrict, Bang Phli district, Samut Prakan province, it covers an area of , making it one of the biggest international airports in Southeast Asia and a regional hub for aviation. The airport is also a major Cargo Air Freight Hub (20th busiest in 2019), which has a designated Airport Free Zone, as well as road links to the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) on Motorway 7. Etymology The name ''Suvarnabhumi'' is Sanskrit for "land of gold" (Devanagari:सुवर्णभूमि IAST: ''Suvarṇabhūmi''; ''Suvarṇa'' is "gold", ''Bhūmi'' is 'land'; literally "golden land"). The name was chosen by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej whose name includes ''Bhūmi'', referring to the Buddhist golden kingdom, thought to have been to the east of the Ganges, possibly somewhere in Southeast Asia. In Thailand, government proclamations and national museums i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Kuala Lumpur International Airport is the main international airport serving Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. It is located in the Sepang District of Selangor, approximately south of downtown Kuala Lumpur and serves the Greater Kuala Lumpur, city's greater conurbation. Kuala Lumpur International Airport is the largest and busiest airport in Malaysia and is recognised as a mega hub. In 2023, it handled 47.2 million passengers, 980,040 tonnes of cargo and 819,026 aircraft movements, ranking as the World's busiest airports by passenger traffic, 35th-busiest airport by total passenger traffic. In 2024, KLIA is the ranked first by OAG (company), OAG (by ratio of connection flight frequency to destinations served) in the Global Low-Cost Megahubs index by with 11,188 possible low-cost connections across over 137 destinations. OAG also ranked KLIA is the world's second most connected airport (by ratio of connection flight frequency to destinations served) in 2024, with 33,4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanya Phoenix International Airport
Sanya Phoenix International Airport is an international airport serving the city of Sanya in South Central China’s Hainan province. It is located about northwest of the city center. Sanya Phoenix International Airport is a main airport hub and comprises close to ten thousand acres. The runway is about long and wide, which satisfies the take off and landing requirements of a fully weighted Boeing 747, Airbus A340 or other large aircraft. It is the second busiest airport in Hainan, the busiest being Haikou Meilan International Airport. However, it was the first airport in Hainan to launch transcontinental air service, when Transaero Airlines started operating non-stop to Sanya from Moscow as early as 2007. The service was discontinued after Transaero ceased operations in 2015. Since 2017, several Russian airlines including IrAero, Alrosa and Azur Air have begun operating from various Russian cities, fueling the growth of tourism from Russia in Hainan. In 2017, it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beihai Fucheng Airport
Beihai Fucheng Airport is an airport serving the city of Beihai in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It serves primarily domestic destinations within China, with limited international service. In 2011 it ranked as the 63rd busiest airport in China, in terms of passengers. Airlines and destinations See also *List of airports in China *List of the busiest airports in China China's busiest airports are a series of lists ranking the 100 busiest airports in Mainland China according to the number of total passengers, including statistics for total aircraft movements and total cargo movements, following the official ... References External linksBeihai Fucheng Airport (BHY), China Airports in Guangxi Beihai Ports of Entry of China {{Guangxi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aksu Hongqipo Airport
Aksu Hongqipo Airport is an airport located in Onsu County, serving the city of Aksu and the namesake prefecture, in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China. It was formerly called Aksu Airport. Facilities The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 09/27 which measures . Airlines and destinations See also * List of airports in the People's Republic of China This is a list of public airports in the People's Republic of China grouped by provincial-level division and sorted by main city or county served. It includes civil airports and certified general airports, but excludes general airports filed und ... References External links * {{authority control Airports in Xinjiang Airports established in 1973 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chengdu Airlines
Chengdu Airlines is an airline headquartered in Shuangliu, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. A subsidiary of Sichuan Airlines, it operates a network of scheduled domestic passenger flights out of its hub at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport and Chengdu Tianfu International Airport both located in Chengdu. History Originally named United Eagle Airlines Co., Ltd ( zh, s=鹰联航空公司, labels=no; also known as UEAir), the company was founded in 2004 by a former executive of China Northwest Airlines, with the necessary funding being provided by the Vickers Financial Group. It took delivery of its first airliner, an Airbus A320 that previously had belonged to Air Jamaica, on 8 July 2005 and on 27 July, revenue flights were commenced. Another similar aircraft type, the slightly smaller Airbus A319, was put in service with United Eagle Airlines on 2 December of that year. In March 2009, Sichuan Airlines invested 200 million RMB (30 million USD) in United Eagle Airlines, thus h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Eastern Airlines
China Eastern Airlines (branded as China Eastern) is a major airline in China, headquartered in Changning, Shanghai, Changning, Shanghai. It is one of the three major airlines in the country, along with Air China and China Southern Airlines. China Eastern's main Airline hub, hubs are Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport both located in Shanghai. In terms of passenger traffic, it is the country's second largest airline after China Southern Airlines. In 2021, its operational revenue was 67,127 million Rmb, RMB with assets totaling 286,548 million Rmb, RMB. China Eastern (along with its subsidiary Shanghai Airlines) became the 14th member of SkyTeam on June 21, 2011. History China Eastern Airlines was established on June 25, 1988, under the Civil Aviation Administration of China Huadong Administration. In 1997, China Eastern took over the unprofitable China General Aviation and also became the country's first airline to offer shares o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SF Airlines
SF Airlines () is a Chinese cargo airline owned by SF Express (Group) Co. The company is headquartered in the No.1 Freight Depot of the International Shipping Center of Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong province. History Although a preparatory team for SF Airlines was founded in 2005, it wasn't until 2009 that the preparation was approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. A successful maiden flight was made on 31 December 2009. SF Airlines began its first flights in 2010 to the plateau area of Yushu City, Qinghai carrying earthquake relief materials. Shortly after, a second Boeing 757-200F was put into operation. In 2011, SF Airlines became the first company in the industry to pass the CCAR-121-R4 for supplemental operations. They also flew their first Boeing 737-300F in 2011. SF Airlines passed the International Region Supplemental Operation Assessment and became qualified to operate international routes. In 2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sichuan Airlines
Sichuan Airlines is the largest airline in Western China, headquartered in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. The airline is based in Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, operating mainly scheduled domestic and international flights out of Chengdu Shuangliu Airport, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport and Kunming Changshui International Airport. Sichuan Airlines is also the first airline in mainland China to operate the Airbus A320 and among the first batch of airlines in mainland China to receive the Airbus A350. History The airline was established on 19 September 1986 as Sichuan Airlines Company, its first flight was on 14 July 1988 between Chengdu and Wanzhou. The airline was later restructured as Sichuan Airlines Co., Ltd. on 29 August 2002, in which the Sichuan Airlines Co., Ltd. Group became the major shareholder (40%). The other shareholders are China Southern Airlines (39%), China Eastern Airlines (10%), Air China Group (10%) and Chengdu Gingko Restaurant Co. (1% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air China
Air China, officially Air China Limited, ( zh, s=中国国际航空公司, labels=no, ''Zhōngguó guójì hángkōng gōngsī'') is a major Chinese airline and the flag carrier of the People's Republic of China. It is headquartered in Shunyi, Beijing, Shunyi, Beijing. The airline offers both domestic and international flights to different destinations around China and the world. The airline was established in 1988 after the former Chinese flag carrier CAAC (airline), CAAC was split into six airlines, one of them being Air China. The airline is one of the largest airlines in China. It is 53.46% owned by the state-owned China National Aviation Holding. Air China's hub airports are based in Beijing and Chengdu. In 2017, the airline carried 102 million domestic and international passengers with an average Passenger load factor, load factor of 81%. The airline joined Star Alliance in 2007. History Early years Air China was established and commenced operations on 1 July 1988 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Mover
A people mover or automated people mover (APM) is a type of small-scale automated guideway transit system. The term is generally used only to describe systems serving relatively small areas such as airports, downtown districts or theme parks. The term was originally applied to three different systems, developed roughly at the same time. One was Skybus, an automated mass transit system prototyped by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation beginning in 1964. The second, alternately called the People Mover and Minirail, opened in Montreal at Expo 67. Finally the last, called PeopleMover or WEDway PeopleMover, was an attraction that was originally presented by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and that opened at Disneyland in 1967. The term "people mover" currently describes technologies such as monorail, rail tracks and maglev. Propulsion may involve conventional on-board electric motors, linear motors or cable traction. Generally speaking, larger APMs are referred to by oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
