Shenzhen Airport
Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport 深圳 宝安 国际 机场 |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | ZGSZ |
IATA code | SZX |
Coordinates | |
Height above MSL | 4 m (13 ft ) |
Transport links | |
Distance from the city center | 35 km from Shenzhen |
Basic data | |
opening | October 12, 1991 |
operator | Shenzhen Airport Company Ltd. |
surface | 1080 ha |
Passengers | 41,971,000 (2016) |
Air freight | 1,125,000 t (2016) |
Flight movements |
318,600 (2016) |
Runways | |
15/33 | 3400 m × 45 m concrete |
16/34 | 3800 m × 45 m concrete |
The Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport ( Chinese 深圳宝安国际机场 , Pinyin Shenzhen Bǎo'ān Guoji Jīchǎng , formerly Shenzhen Huangtian Airport , IATA code SZX , ICAO code ZGSZ ) is in Bao'An District of Shenzhen , Guangdong in the People's Republic of China .
With 151,000 flights a year, it is the fourth largest airport in mainland China after Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. With more than 500,000 tons annually, it is also one of the 30 largest in the world for air freight .
The airport opened on October 12, 1991. The area of the airport area is 10.8 km². A special feature of the airport is that, thanks to its location on the Pearl River Delta , it combines air, ship and land transport. It is next to the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway and also at the Fuyong Ferry Terminal. The airport serves as the hub for Shenzhen Airlines .
Airlines and Destinations
It is the home airport of the Shenzhen- based Chinese airline Shenzhen Airlines . China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines also operate bases at the airport.
Until 2012, the cargo airline Jade Cargo International , a cooperation between Shenzhen Airlines , Lufthansa Cargo AG and DEG-Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, was based at the airport. In addition, Lufthansa Technik is represented at the location with a repair and maintenance center for the Asian area.
Mainly destinations in China and Southeast Asia are served. In German-speaking countries, Air China serves Frankfurt three times a week, while Hainan Airlines connects Shenzhen with Vienna and Zurich .
extension
From spring 2008, the airport was expanded to include a second parallel runway to the southwest with a length of 3800 meters and the 1.6 km long futuristic Terminal 3 (architect: Massimiliano Fuksas ; structure, facade and parametric design : Knippers Helbig ). The terminal and the runway on an area reclaimed from the sea by polder were completed in 2013.
This expansion should increase the airport's capacity to around 40 million passengers a year. The terminal is currently being expanded to include a satellite .
Incidents
- On 8 May 1997, suffered Boeing 737-300 of China Southern Airlines (B-2925) for a flight ticket from Chongqing crash-landed at the airport Shenzhen. The aircraft overshot the end of the runway on the second approach under thunderstorm conditions , after it had already been damaged by the hard landing in a previous landing attempt. Of the 65 passengers and nine crew members on board, 33 passengers and two crew members were killed (see also China Southern Airlines flight 3456 ) .
See also
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Shenzhen Baoan International Airport
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 2016 年 深圳 机场 完成 旅客 吞吐量 4197.1 万 人次 , January 1, 2017, Chinese
- ↑ Airport expansion to be accelerated. (No longer available online.) Shenzhen Daily, archived from the original September 27, 2007 ; accessed on June 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Frankfurt Airport: flight plan summer 2017. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 6, 2017 ; accessed on June 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Press release from Vienna-Schwechat airport on the new Hainan connection to Shenzhen
- ^ Hainan Airlines website
- ↑ Note on the official website of the airport. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 16, 2011 ; accessed on June 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Receipt ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2014 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. travelbook.de, November 27, 2013, accessed on November 27, 2013
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report B737-300, B-2925 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)