Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport
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| Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport 杭州萧山国际机场 Hángzhōu Xiāoshān Guójì Jīchǎng |
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| IATA: HGH – ICAO: ZSHC | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport Co. Ltd. | ||
| Location | Hangzhou | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 23 ft / 7 m | ||
| Coordinates | 30°13′46″N 120°26′04″E / 30.22944°N 120.43444°ECoordinates: 30°13′46″N 120°26′04″E / 30.22944°N 120.43444°E | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 07/25 | 11,811 | 3,600 | Concrete |
Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport (IATA: HGH, ICAO: ZSHC) (simplified Chinese: 杭州萧山国际机场; pinyin: Hángzhōu Xiāoshān Guójì Jīchǎng) is the principal airport serving Hangzhou, a major city in the Yangtze River Delta region and the provincial capital of Zhejiang.
The airport is built on the southern shore of Qiantang River in the Xiaoshan district and is 27 km away from downtown Hangzhou.
In 2008, Hangzhou airport handled 12,673,198 passengers and became the 8th busiest airport in China. In addition, the airport was the 8th busiest airport in terms of cargo traffic and the 10th busiest airport by traffic movements.
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[edit] History
The airport was planned to be constructed in three phases. The first phase of construction started in July 1997, and was completed and opened for traffic on December 30, 2000. It replaces the old Hangzhou airport, which was a shared civil and military airfield. In September 2003, the central government of China declared HGH an international airport and, in March 2004, the airport officially became an international airport after immigration and customs facilities were built and put into service.
The airport was a hub of CNAC Zhejiang. After the airlines' merger with Air China, Air China inherited the Hangzhou hub.
[edit] Facilities
Phase One of the airport occupies 7,260 acres of land. It has a capacity of eight million passengers and 110,000 tons of cargo a year, and can handle aircraft as large as the Boeing 747-400. It has one runway of 3,600m in length and 45m in width. The passenger terminal can handle 3,600 passengers an hour and is 100,000 square metres in size (including an underground parking of 22,000 square metres). The departure level has 36 ticket counters, including 12 in the international side of the terminal. There are 2,900 seats in the departure lounge. The immigration and customs area occupies 9,500 sq. metre of terminal space.
The apron occupies 340,000 square metres of land, and there are 12 jetways and 18 departure gates.
Maintenance facilities are certified to perform B-Check on all types of aircraft and C-Check on Boeing 737 and Boeing 757 aircraft.
[edit] Transportation
The Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway has an exit at the airport. Driving time from the airport to Shanghai is 2.5hrs, Suzhou is 1.5hrs, Wuxi is 2hrs and Wenzhou is 3.5hrs.
There are airport buses to downtown Hangzhou and Xiaoshan every 15 to 30 minutes. There are also airport buses to prefectures further away near Hangzhou such as Yiwu with a less frequency.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
The following airlines serve Hangzhou as at November 2009:
[edit] Domestic
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air China | Beijing-Capital, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Kunming, Sanya, Shenzhen, Xi'an |
| China Eastern Airlines | Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Dalian, Guangzhou, Guilin, Kunming, Sanya, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Xiamen |
| China Southern Airlines | Beijing-Capital, Changchun, Changsha, Dalian, Guangzhou, Guilin, Haikou, Harbin, Kunming, Lanzhou, Qingdao, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an, Xiamen, Zhengzhou |
| China United Airlines | Beijing-Nanyuan |
| Deer Air | Guangzhou, Kunming |
| Hainan Airlines | Beijing-Capital, Guangzhou, Haikou, Harbin, Taiyuan, Xi'an |
| Grand China Express Air | Hefei, Taiyuan |
| Okay Airways | Tianjin |
| Shandong Airlines | Fuzhou, Guilin, Jinan, Nanning, Qingdao, Xiamen, Yantai |
| Shanghai Airlines | Beijing-Capital, Guangzhou |
| Shenzhen Airlines | Nanning, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Zhengzhou |
| Sichuan Airlines | Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian |
| United Eagle Airlines | Changsha, Dalian |
| Xiamen Airlines | Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Fuzhou, Jinan, Jinjiang, Nanning, Qingdao, Shenyang, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xiamen, Zhengzhou |
[edit] International
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| AirAsia X | Kuala Lumpur |
| Air China | Busan, Seoul-Incheon, Taipei-Taoyuan |
| Air Macau | Macau |
| All Nippon Airways operated by Air Nippon | Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita |
| Asiana Airlines | Busan, Seoul-Incheon |
| China Eastern Airlines | Hong Kong |
| Dragonair | Hong Kong |
| EVA Air | Taipei-Taoyuan |
| Hong Kong Express Airways | Hong Kong |
| KLM | Amsterdam [begins 1 May] |
| Mandarin Airlines | Kaohsiung, Taichung |
| Transasia Airways | Taipei-Songshan |
| Uni Air | Kaohsiung, Taichung |
| Xiamen Airlines | Macau, Singapore, Taipei-Taoyuan |
[edit] Cargo Carriers
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Korean Air | Seoul-Incheon |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Airport information for ZSHC at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
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