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Baiyun Airport
Airport Directory » China » Guangzhou » Baiyun AirportGuangzhou Baiyun International Airport (IATA: CAN, ICAO: ZGGG) (simplified Chinese: 广州白云国际机场; traditional Chinese: 廣州白雲國際機場; pinyin: Guǎngzhōu Báiyún Guójì Jīchǎng) is the independent airport of Guangzhou, the capital of the district of Guangdong, People's Republic of China. Both aerodrome codes were inherited from the previous Guangzhou airport, and the IATA codification reflects Guangzhou's former romanization Canton. The airport is the independent hub of China Southern Airlines and a focal point town for Shenzhen Airlines.
In 2008, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was the second busiest airport in Mainland China in terms of rider traffic, with 33,435,472 mortals dealt. As for freight traffic, the airport was the third busiest in China and the 26th busiest in the world. Guangzhou airport is also the second busiest airport in terms of traffic motions in China.
Overview
The current airport in Huadu District opened on August 5, 2004, replacing the 72-year-old previous, identically named Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (currently closed). The new airport, made at a cost of 19.8 billion kwai, is 28 kilometres (17 statute land mile) from business district Guangzhou and almost five clips bigger than its predecessor.
The opening of the New Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport had palliated most of the arguments of the older and deteriorated airport because of the limited infinite, overcrowding and want of enlargements. Its opening let it to defeat curfews and limitations and set about a 24 60 minute functioning. This averaged that China Southern Airlines is able to extremely apply their intercontinental paths by winging overnight. Other air hose have this benefit to a fault.
"Baiyun" (白云) averages "white cloud" in Chinese, and bring up to Mt. Baiyun (Baiyunshan) near the place of the former airport. The airport is also bring up to as "New Baiyun" to separate it from the previous edition, but this is not a division of the functionary name.
New paths
Emirates Airline and Qatar Airways established new voyages to Baiyun Airport in 2008 from Dubai and Doha severally. Emirates started to wing 6 clips a hebdomad on everyday except Fridays using an Airbus A330-200 aircraft. From October 2008 the service got daily. Qatar Airways now functions five voyages a hebdomad on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays using an Airbus A330-200 aircraft .
From October 28, 2008, Kenya Airways set about to wing non-stop Nairobi-Guangzhou path three clips a hebdomad using a Boeing 777-200/ER aircraft. The non-stop voyage replaced the voyage via Dubai and 3 weekly voyages via Bangkok were still held . However, the newly-open non-stop voyage was call off from March 2009 and the figure of voyages via Bankok were further cut down to 3 weekly, as a event of the global fiscal crisis.
United Airlines had mandate to assist Guangzhou from San Francisco after winning rights. However, the start out date has been force back a yr due to high fuel costs. The service was once again detained 1 yr to June 30, 2010, as United Airlines denoted in March 2009, demanding the disputing economic system had impacted the claim for travel to China. Also Jet Airways, Gulf Air, Air New Zealand and Yemen Airways have show their involvement in opening routes to the airport in the near time to come.
Thai AirAsia , an link of the AirAsia Group, denoted in December 2008 that it would set about to function direct daily voyage between Guangzhou and Bangkok from January 20, 2009. Henceforth, there are three daily voyages and 21 weekly voyages to Guangzhou functioned by Air Asia who also functions voyages from Kuala Lumpur LCCT.
Airport hotel
The Pullman Guangzhou Baiyun Airport is a five-star hotel pull off by Accor, a French hotel direction group. Located beside the airport depot, the hotel offers 460 guestrooms, an Executive Lounge and conference installations with Wi-Fi access throughout.
FedEx Asia-Pacific hub
On July 13, 2005, FedEx Express signed a contract with the aiport to construct a new Asia-Pacific hub at the airport. The new hub is the biggest FedEx hub outside the United States, and replaced the hub at Subic Bay International Airport in the Philippines.
The new Asia-Pacific hub covers an area of 63 hectares(155 acres), with a aggregative floor infinite of 82,000 square meter. At the start of functioning, the hub applies 900 individuals and functions 136 voyages a hebdomad, furnishing bringing services amongst 21 leading towns in Asia and link up these towns to more than 220 lands and districts in the world .
According to FedEx, the hub has its own incline control tower, a 1st for an international air show load corporation installation in China, which enables FedEx to command aircraft moves on the land, aircraft parkland programmes as good as burdening and set down precedencies. Also included at the hub are a unique parcel and form system with 16 high-speed form lines, 7 round-out transporter, and a aggregative of 90 primary and secondary document-sorting splits. With the new progressed system, up to 24,000 parcels is able to be screen out an 60 minute at the start out of functioning.
Construction set about in 2006 and the hub was originally scheduled to open on December 26, 2008. But on November 17, 2008, after several calendar month of proving, FedEx denoted that the opening date was hold up to the 1st one-half of 2009 when the hub was anticipated to be full operational. FedEx demanded that the revised functioning date "furnished FedEx with the necessary clip to full try out all systems and functions, as good as work closely with the Guangzhou authorizations to insure all necessary approving are in location".
On December 17, 2008, the hub finished its 1st voyage functioning prove. A FedEx MD-11 aircraft depart from Subic Bay International Airport in the Philippines and district at Baiyun Airport at five:50a.m.. The voyage was cared by the new FedEx hub squad, applying the FedEx incline control tower and the new 24,000 parcel per 60 minute form system. Following a successful functioning' function, the voyage go away on clip for its final destination at Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, France. This Asia-Europe voyage path functioned 4 clips per hebdomad during prove run. FedEx also denoted that the hub would set about functioning on February 6, 2009.
FedEx closed its 13-year-old Asia-Pacific hub at Subic Bay of northern Philippines on February 6, 2009 with the last voyage going forth for Taiwan merely before dayspring, while hub functioning have travel to Baiyun Airport. The 1st voyage that arrived at the new FedEx Asia-Pacific hub arise from Indianapolis International Airport. The MD-11 aircraft district at 11:07p.m. at Baiyun International Airport from Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, marking the opening and full functioning of the new Asia-Pacific hub. But FedEx still back up standby functioning at Subic embayment, which averages the hub at Subic Bay will not be wholly close down until April or May this yr when the passage time period is finished .
Future development
Construction of the E3 (East three) and W3 (West three) corridors are due to be finished in September 2009, which will increase the airport's capacity to 45 million riders a yr. A neutral freight depot shall be set into functioning in June 2009 while a new subway station turn up under the being airport depot construction, named Airport South, is under building. The station is division of the Line three northward extension labor which will connect the airport to the town. The new line is due to be finished in 2010 when travel time between the airport and the town center shall be cut down to approximately one-half an 60 minute.
In August 2008, the airport's new enlargement programme got okayed by the National Development and Reform Commission of China . According to the enlargement labor, the airport will construct a 3rd landing track turn up 400 m east of the being east landing track. The new landing track shall be 3800 meters long and 60 m broad. Other installations of the enlargement program include a 531,000-square-metre Terminal 2, a new indoor auto parkland and an outside auto parkland, a transit center and another subway station which will assist Terminal 2. The aggregative cost of the labor shall be ¥14.036 billion. Construction of Terminal two is approximated to set about in 2010 while the 3rd landing track shall be finished before the 2010 Asian Games. When the whole labor is complete in 2015, the airport shall be able to deal 75 million riders and more than 2.17 million metric ton of freight a yr.
The airport denoted a 300-million kwai redevelopment labor on January 9th, 2009. The labor will increase the security checkpoints from the present 25 to 67, at the same clip add more parking zone and present more low-price eating place to the airport. It is planned to be finished with the E3 and W3 corridors in October 2009.
Data
- Runways: two (3800 m and 3600 m), appartment reserved for five
- Aircraft parkland embayments: 166 (rider apron and shipment apron)
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Current rider capacity: 25 million riders per yr
- Planned rider capacity in 2010: 45 million riders per yr
- Planned rider capacity in 2020: 75 million riders per yr
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Current load capacity: 1 million t
- Planned load capacity in 2010: 2 million t
- Planned load capacity in 2020: over 2.17 million t
- Destinations: 100 (largely domestic)
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Branch airports: Shantou, Meizhou, Zhanjiang
- Planned subdivision airports: Shaoguan, Zhaoqing
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