Chengdu Shuangliu Airport
| Chengdu Shuangliu Airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | ZUUU |
| IATA code | CTU |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 495 m (1624 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 16 km southwest of Chengdu , People's Republic of China
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| Basic data | |
| opening | 1938 |
| operator | Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) |
| surface | 1790 ha |
| Terminals | 2 |
| Passengers | 49,801,693 (2017) |
| Air freight | 611,590 (2016) |
| Flight movements |
319,382 (2016) |
| Runways | |
| 18L / 36R | 3600 m × 60 m asphalt |
| 02L / 20R | 3600 m × 60 m asphalt |
The airport Chengdu Shuangliu ( Chinese 成都双流国际机场 , Pinyin Shuangliu Guoji Jīchǎng ; English: Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport , IATA code CTU , ICAO code zuuu ) is the international airport of the metropolis Chengdu in southwest China . It is located 16 km southwest of downtown Chengdu in Shuangliu County . With more than 49.8 million passengers (2017) and more than 320,000 annual flight movements, it is now one of the ten largest airports in the country.
Airlines and Destinations
The airport primarily serves the rapidly growing domestic Chinese traffic and has some connections to nearby Southeast Asian centers such as Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. The airport serves the airlines Chengdu Airlines , Sichuan Airlines as a base and Air China uses it as a third aviation hub next to Beijing and Shanghai .
There are also connections with Ethiopian to Addis Ababa , with Etihad to Abu Dhabi and flights with Sichuan Airlines to Auckland and Melbourne . In the USA, there are flights to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City , Los Angeles International Airport , Chicago O'Hare International Airport and San Francisco Airport
history
After it was founded in 1938 as a military airfield, the airport was expanded in 1944. In 1956 it became a civil airport. In 1991 a new terminal with 17,000 m² was added. 1994–2001 the runway was extended to 3,600 m. In 2009, a second runway was added, located to the south-east and connected to the old system via a 1.5-kilometer connecting runway. From 2009 a new terminal building was also built south of the existing building. The official opening took place on August 9, 2012. This building has a connection to a subway station. [obsolete] With both investments the capacity of the airport increases to approx. 50 million passengers per year. Given the current growth, this mark should already be reached in 2016 [obsolete] .
Airport layout
CTU T1 International
Terminal 2 of Chengdu Shuangliu Int'l Airport
Terminal 2 concourse of Chengdu Shuangliu Int'l Airport
Transport links
Local rail transport
Subway
The airport has been accessible by Chengdu subway since September 2017 . The airport can be reached from Taipingyuan Station on Line 10, which goes to both terminals.
railroad
The airport is 10 minutes from South Railway Station and 16 minutes from East Railway Station. Nearby cities such as Leshan, Emeishan, Meishan East, Qingshen, Deyang, Mianyang can also be reached from the airport by rail.
See also
Web links
- Official website of the airport (Chinese, English)
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Airport Traffic Report 2017. Accessed June 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Chengdu (CTU) flight index. Accessed December 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Terminal 2 of Chengdu Airport Officially Put into Use. (No longer available online.) Wcarn.com, August 10, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 24, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ [1] trsvelchinaguide.com: Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (English), accessed on March 23, 2018
