Urumqi-Diwopu Airport
| Ürümqi-Diwopu International Airport ئۈرۈمچى دىۋوپۇ خەلقئارا ئايروپورتى 乌鲁木齐 地 窝 堡 国际机场 机场Wūlǔmùqí Dìwōpù Guójì Jīcháng |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | ZWWW |
| IATA code | URC |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 648 m (2126 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 16 km east of Urumqi , People's Republic of China
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| Local transport | Line 1 of the Ürümqi Metro |
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| Passengers | 20,200,800 (2016) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 07/25 | 3600 m × 45 m concrete |
The Airport Urumqi Diwopu ( Chinese 烏魯木齊地窩堡國際機場 / 乌鲁木齐地窝堡国际机场 , Pinyin Wūlǔmùqí Diwopu Guoji Jichang ; Uighur :ئۈرۈمچى دىۋوپۇ خەلقئارا ئايروپورتى Urumqi Diwopu Həlⱪ'ara Ayroporti ; IATA : URC, ICAO : ZWWW) is located about eight kilometers northwest of the city center of Urumqi in the administrative area of the Diwopu municipality of the Xinshi district in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China .
Airlines and destinations
- Air China (Beijing, Chengdu, Jinan, Lanzhou)
- China Eastern Airlines (Kunming, Lanzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Xi'an)
- China Southern Airlines (Aksu, Altay, Beijing, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hohhot, Hotan, Karamay, Kashi, Korla, Kunming, Kuqa, Lanzhou, Qingdao, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Xiamen, Xi'an, Xining, Yinchuan, Yining, Zhengzhou, Almaty, Ashgabat, Baku, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Irkutsk, Islamabad, Istanbul, Khujand, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Osh, Tashkent, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Vienna)
- Hainan Airlines (Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Kashi, Kunming, Sanya, Xi'an)
- China United Airlines (Beijing-Nanyuan)
- Shandong Airlines (Yinchuan)
- Shanghai Airlines (Shanghai-Hongqiao)
- Shenzhen Airlines (Shenyang, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Zhengzhou)
- Sichuan Airlines (Chengdu, Chongqing)
- Spring Airlines (Shanghai-Hongqiao)
- Air Astana (Almaty, Astana)
- Ariana Afghan Airlines (Kabul)
- Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
- Cathay Dragon (Hong Kong)
- Itek Air (Bishkek)
- Kam Air (Kabul)
- Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)
- S7 Airlines (Novosibirsk)
- Somon Air (Dushanbe)
- Urumqi Air ( Gulja )
- Uzbekistan Airways (Fergana, Tashkent)
Incidents
- On May 18, 2004, an Ilyushin Il-76TD of the Azerbaijani Silk Way Airlines ( aircraft registration 4K-AZ27 ) crashed shortly after taking off from Urumqi-Diwopu Airport. All seven inmates were killed.
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Airport data on World Aero Data ( English, as of 2006 )
- ↑ Accident report IL-76TD 4K-AZ27 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 23, 2019.