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Urumqi Airport
Airport Directory » China » Urumqi » Urumqi AirportÜrümqi Diwopu International Airport (IATA: URC, ICAO: ZWWW) (simplified Chinese: 乌鲁木齐地窝堡国际机场; pinyin: Wūlǔmùqí Dìwōpù Guójì Jīcháng) is turn up in Diwopu, a suburban area north west of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. The airport is 16 kilometer off from business district Ürümqi. It is a focal point town for China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines.
History
Ürümqi Airport was opened to foreign riders in 1973, and has been the emergency districting dry land for air hose to Europe and due west Asia.
Facilities
The airport covers an area of 4.84 million sq. meters. Its new constructed landing track is 3600 m (11,811 foot) in length. The airport is able to let the districting of big aircraft such as the Boeing 747. The 110,000 sq. meter apron is able to adapt over 30 aircraft.
Usage
In 2002, 1,673,400 riders and 35,000 short ton of goods passed through Ürümqi Airport.
Summer 2005 saw Diwopu acquire a encouragement when the airport set about having major foreign air hose; of them Korean Air was the 1st to set about service from Seoul seasonally in June; 2 calendar month after, Pakistan International Airlines commenced functioning from Islamabad winging yr round. Both air hose used broad organic structure Airbus aircraft. PIA's functioning did not last long and was suspended in April 2006.
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