Urumqi Diwopu International Airport
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Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport is located in Diwopu, a suburb of Ürümqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. The airport is 16 km away from the downtown of Urumqi and is one of the five major airports of China.
History
Urumqi Airport was opened to foreign passengers in 1973, and has been the emergency landing ground for airlines to Europe and west Asia.
Facilities
The airport covers an area of 4.84 million sq metre. Its newly built runway is 3600m in length. the airport can allow large aircraft such as Boeing 757 to use. The 110,000 sq. metre apron can accommodate over 30 planes.
Usage
In 2002, 1.6734 million passengers and 35,000 tons of goods passed through the airport.
Airlines
The airport is a hub of China Southern Airlines after the airline has acquired China Xinjiang Airlines.
- Air China (Beijing, Chengdu)
- Ariana Afghan Airlines (Kabul)
- Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
- China Eastern Airlines (Kunming, Lanzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai-Hongqiao)
- China Southern Airlines (Alma Ata, Beijing, Bishkek, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Islamabad, Kunming, Lanzhou, Moscow, Qingdao, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shenzhen, Zhengzhou)
- Dalavia Far East Airways
- Dragonair (Hong Kong)
- Hainan Airlines (Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Sanya, Xi'an)
- Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon - seasonal flights)
- Kyrgyz International Airlines (Bishkek)
- Kyrgyzstan Airlines (Bishkek)
- Pakistan International Airlines (Islamabad)
- Shandong Airlines
- Shanghai Airlines (Shanghai-Hongqiao)
- Shenzhen Airlines
- Siberia Airlines (Novosibirsk)
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