GUANGZHOU BAIYUN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

'Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport' () is the main airport of Guangzhou, the capital of the province of Guangdong, People's Republic of China. Both airport codes were inherited from the previous Guangzhou airport, Baiyun International Airport and the IATA code reflects Guangzhou's former romanization ''Canton''. The airport is the main hub of China Southern Airlines.
According to the Financial Times in an article on 18 January 2007, the airport handled 23.6 million people in 2005.

Contents

Overview

Data

Airlines and destinations (International)

Airlines and destinations (Domestic)

Cargo Airlines

See also

References

External links

Overview

The current airport in Huadu District opened on August 5, 2004, replacing the 72-year-old previous, identically named Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (now closed). The new airport, built at a cost of 19.8 billion yuan, is 28 kilometers (17 statute miles) from downtown Guangzhou and nearly 5 times larger than its predecessor. The ambitious second phase of construction, aimed for completion in 2009, aims to double the capacity yet again. [1] A branch of the Guangzhou Metro to the airport is also under construction.
"Baiyun" (白雲) means "white clouds" in Chinese. The airport is also referred to as "New Baiyun" to distinguish it from the previous version, but this is not a part of the official name.

Data

★ Runways: 2 (3800 m and 3600 m), room reserved for a third one

★ Aprons: 66

★ Current capacity: 27 million passengers per year

★ Planned capacity in 2010: 80 million passengers per year

★ Cargo capacity: 1 million tonnes

★ Planned cargo capacity in 2010: 2.5 million tonnes

★ Destinations: 100 (mostly domestic)

★ Branch airports: Shantou, Meizhou, Zhanjiang

★ Planned branch airports: Weizhou, Zhaoqing

Airlines and destinations (International)

★ Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)

★ Air Zimbabwe (Harare, Singapore)

★ All Nippon Airways (Tokyo-Narita)

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★ Air Nippon (Nagoya-Centrair)

★ Asiana Airlines (Busan, Seoul-Incheon)

★ Batavia Air (Jakarta)

★ Cebu Pacific (Manila) [begins October 10, 2007]

★ China Airlines (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan; part of the Three Links, the Cross-strait Charter on Lunar New Year)

★ China Southern Airlines (Amsterdam, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Daegu, Delhi, Dubai, Fukuoka, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kathmandu, Kitakyushu, Kuala Lumpur, Laoag City, Los Angeles, Luanda [starts summer 07], Manila, Melbourne, Mumbai [begins December 14, 2007], Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Penang, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Sapporo-Chitose [starts October 07], Sendai [starts October 07], Seoul-Incheon, Siem Reap, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo-Narita, Vientaine)

★ Dalavia (Khabarovsk)

★ EgyptAir (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Cairo)

★ Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)

★ EVA Air (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan; part of the Three Links, the Cross-strait Charter on Lunar New Year)

★ Finnair (Helsinki)

★ Garuda Indonesia (Jakarta)

★ Japan Airlines (Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)

★ Kenya Airways (Dubai, Nairobi)

★ Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)

★ Lufthansa (Frankfurt)

★ Malaysia Airlines (Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Kuching)

★ Northwest Airlines (Tokyo-Narita)

★ Singapore Airlines (Singapore)

★ Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)

★ Tiger Airways (Singapore)

★ Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)^[1]

★ United Airlines (San Francisco) [begins 2008/pending govt approval] [2]

★ Vietnam Airlines (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City)

Airlines and destinations (Domestic)

★ Air China (Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Tianjin)

★ China Eastern Airlines (Kunming, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong)

★ China Southern Airlines (Beihai, Beijing, Changchun, Changde, Changsha, Changzhi, Changzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dali, Dalian, Dali City, Dandong, Datong, Diqing, Fuzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Harbin, Hefei, Hohhot, Hotan, Huangshan, Jilin, Jinghong, Jinjiang, Korla, Kunming, Kuqa, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Lianyungang, Lijiang City, Liuzhou, Meixien, Mudanjiang, Nanchang, Nanchong, Nanjing, Nanning, Nantong, Nanyang, Ningbo, Qiemo, Qiqihar, Sanya, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong, Shantou, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Tachang, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Tongren, Ürümqi, Vientaine, Yining, Weihai, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Wuxi, Wuyishan, Wuzhou, Xiamen, Xi'an, Xining, Xuzhou, Yancheng, Yanji, Yantai, Yinchuan, Yiwu, Zhanjiang, Zhengzhou, Zhuhai)

★ East Star Airlines (Wuhan)

★ Hainan Airlines (Beijing, Haikou, Sanya)

★ Shandong Airlines (Qingdao)

★ Shanghai Airlines (Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Wenzhou)

★ Shenzhen Airlines (Sanya)

★ Sichuan Airlines (Chengdu)

★ Xiamen Airlines (Fuzhou, Xiamen)

Cargo Airlines

★ Air France Cargo (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)

★ Asiana Cargo (Seoul-Incheon)

★ China Postal Airlines (Shanghai-Hongqiao, Wuhan)

★ JAL Cargo (Tokyo-Narita)

★ Korean Air Cargo (Seoul-Incheon)

★ Lufthansa Cargo (Frankfurt, New Dehli, Tashkent)

★ Malaysia Airlines Kargo (Kuala Lumpur)

★ NWA Cargo (Memphis, Tokyo-Narita)

★ Saudi Arabian Airlines Cargo (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Riyadh)

★ United Parcel Service (Anchorage)

★ Volga-Dnepr (Abakan)

See also

★ Baiyun International Airport

References

1. Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", ''Summer Air Traffic Schedule 25.03.2007 - 27.10.2007 (Airports - Russian international)'', 29 May 2007, p. 14

External links

★ Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Official Website

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