Chongqing Jiangbei Airport
| Chongqing Jiangbei Airport | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | ZUCK |
| IATA code | CKG |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 416 m (1365 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 21 km northeast of Chongqing |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1990 |
| Terminals | 2 |
| Passengers | 35,888,819 (2016) |
| Air freight | 318,781.5 |
| Flight movements |
254.360 |
| Runways | |
| 02L / 20R | 3200 m × 45 m concrete |
| 02R / 20L | 3600 m × 45 m concrete |
| 03/21 | 3800 m × 60 m concrete |
The airport Chongqing Jiangbei ( Chinese 重庆江北国际机场 , Pinyin Chongqing Jiangbei Guoji Jīchǎng , English: Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport , IATA code : CKG , ICAO code : Twitching ) is an airport in the northeastern Chinese city of Chongqing . The airport is operated by the Chongqing Airport Group Co. Ltd. and is the eighth largest airport in China in terms of the number of passengers.
Location and transport links
The airport is located about 21 kilometers northeast of Chongqing city center in the Lianglu street in the Yubei district .
Because the G210 motorway is the only road connection from the city center to the airport, it is usually very busy and a journey takes about 30 minutes. A second motorway is under construction.
Some bus routes and shuttles connect the airport with the surrounding regions of Chongqing City (e.g. Dianjiang , Wanzhou ) and other cities in the provinces of Sezuan (e.g. Yibin , Neijiang ) and Guizhou (e.g. Chishui , Zunyi ).
Line 3 of the Chongqing Rail Transit runs from the airport via the city center to the terminus Yudong. Another line (line 10) has served Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 since 2017.
history
Already in the 1920s was the airport Chongqing Baishiyi who today works only as a military airport, built in the southwest Chongqing. After the Civil Administration of China settled in the Sezuan Province in 1965, the airport increasingly lost its importance. On January 22, 1990, Jiangbei Airport was opened as a replacement to Baishiyi.
expansion
The airport is currently undergoing extensive expansion and is to have a total of four runways. It is one of the fastest growing airports in the world.
A new runway and the new Terminal 3A with an area of around 537,000 square meters are under construction - after completion, the airport will have a total area of around 7 million square meters.
Airlines and Destinations
Chongqing is a hub for Air China , China Express Airlines , China Southern Airlines , Chongqing Airlines , Shandong Airlines , Sichuan Airlines and China West Air . Also important airlines are China Eastern Airlines , Hainan Airlines and Xiamen Airlines . Asiana , Finnair , Qatar Airways , Thai Airways and Vietnam fly among the non-Chinese airlines .
There are numerous destinations within China, especially Beijing , Guangzhou and Shanghai-Pudong . Outside of China, for example, Seoul , Osaka , Da Nang and Singapore are served. The only connections to Europe are Finnair to Helsinki and Hainan Airlines to Rome .
The following airlines fly in the air freight business: AirBridgeCargo Airlines, Air China Cargo, Atlas Air , Cathay Pacific , China Airlines , China Southern, China Eastern, Etihad Cargo, EVA Air , Lufthansa Cargo , Singapore Airlines Cargo, TNT Airways and Suparna Airlines .
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Airport Official Website (Chinese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jiangbei International Airport ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Web page, accessed August 29, 2010
- ↑ Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 ), accessed on August 29, 2010
- ↑ Ranking handelsblatt.com, April 2, 2013, accessed on April 2, 2013
