Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport Totally Explained

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Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport is located in Diwopu, a suburb north-west of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. The airport is 16 km away from downtown Ürümqi and is one of the five major airports of China. It is a focus city for China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines.

History

Ürümqi 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. metres. Its newly built runway is 3600 m (11,811 ft) in length. The airport can allow the landing of large aircraft such as the Boeing 747. The 110,000 sq. metre apron can accommodate over 30 aircraft.

Usage

In 2002, 1,673,400 passengers and 35,000 tons of goods passed through Ürümqi Airport. Summer 2005 saw Diwopu get a boost when the airport started receiving major foreign airlines for the first time; of them Korean Air was the first to start service from Seoul seasonally in June; two months later, Pakistan International Airlines began operations from Islamabad flying year round scheduled. Both airlines used wide body Airbus aircraft. PIA's operation didn't last long and was suspended in April 2006.

Airlines and destinations

International

Ariana Afghan Airlines (Kabul)
Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
China Southern Airlines (Almaty, Ashkhabad, Baku, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Irkutsk, Islamabad, Jeddah, Khabarovsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Novosibirsk, Osh, Sharjah, Tashkent, Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
Dalavia (Khabarovsk)
Dragonair (Hong Kong) seasonal charter
Hainan Airlines (Astana)
Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon) seasonal
S7 Airlines (Novosibirsk)
Somon Air (Dushanbe)
Tajik Air (Dushanbe)
Uzbekistan Airways (Fergana, Tashkent)

Domestic

Air China (Beijing, Chengdu, Jinan)

China Eastern Airlines (Kunming, Lanzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Xi'an)

China Southern Airlines (Aksu, Altay, Beijing, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Kashi, Kunming, Lanzhou, Qingdao, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Xiamen, Xi'an, Xining, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou)

Hainan Airlines (Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Kashi, Kunming, Sanya, Xi'an)

Shandong Airlines (Yinchuan)

Shanghai Airlines (Shanghai-Hongqiao)

Shenzhen Airlines (Shenyang, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Zhengzhou)

Sichuan Airlines (Chengdu, Chongqing)

Spring Airlines (Shanghai-Hongqiao)Further Information

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