Qingdao Liuting International Airport
Qingdao Liuting International Airport 青岛流亭国际机场 Qīngdǎo Liútíng Guójì Jīchǎng | |||||||||||
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 Qingdao Liuting International Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Qingdao International Airport Group Co., Ltd. | ||||||||||
| Location | Qingdao, China | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 10 m / 33 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°15′58″N 120°22′28″E / 36.26611°N 120.37444°E | ||||||||||
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  TAO Location in Shandong province | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 青島流亭國際機場 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 青岛流亭国际机场 | ||||||||||||||
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Qingdao Liuting International Airport (IATA: TAO, ICAO: ZSQD) (Chinese: 青岛流亭国际机场) is the main airport serving the city of Qingdao, in Shandong Province, China. It is about 31 km from the city center.
From 2004 to 2006, the airport underwent an expansion of its terminal as well as adding more parking spaces which was part of its initial 2010 goal to expand Liuting Airport to handle 5.2 million passengers annually or 2400 passengers and almost 120,000 tons of cargo hourly. The runway was also extended to its current length.
As for 2010, Qingdao Liuting International Airport was the 15th busiest airport in the People's Republic of China with 11,101,176 passengers.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Busan | Busan |
| Air China | Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Chongqing, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong |
| All Nippon Airways | Tokyo-Narita, Osaka-Kansai |
| Asiana Airlines | Seoul-Incheon |
| China Airlines | Taipei-Taoyuan |
| China Eastern Airlines | Beijing-Capital, Changsha, Dalian, Fukuoka, Guangzhou, Harbin, Liuzhou, Nagoya-Centrair, Nanjing, Osaka-Kansai, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Wuhan, Xi'an |
| China Southern Airlines | Changchun, Changsha, Dalian, Daqing, Guangzhou, Guilin, Hangzhou, Harbin, Ningbo, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Urumqi, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an, Zhengzhou |
| China United Airlines | Beijing-Nanyuan |
| Dragonair | Hong Kong |
| Hainan Airlines | Guangzhou, Harbin, Ningbo, Shenyang, Xi'an |
| Jeju Air | Seoul-Incheon [begins 22 June 2012] |
| Juneyao Airlines | Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong |
| Korean Air | Busan, Seoul-Incheon |
| Kunming Airlines | Huangyan, Kunming |
| Lucky Air | Kunming, Wuhan |
| Lufthansa | FrankfurtNote 1 |
| Shandong Airlines | Beijing-Capital, Changchun, Chengdu, Chongqing, Daegu, Dalian, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Jinan, Linyi, Nanjing, Ningbo, Sanya, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Taipei-Taoyuan, Taiyuan, Tianjin |
| Shanghai Airlines | Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong, Yanji |
| Shenzhen Airlines | Guangzhou, Shenzhen |
| Spring Airlines | Shanghai-Hongqiao |
| TransAsia Airways | Taipei-Songshan |
| Uni Air | Kaohsiung, Taipei-Taoyuan |
| West Air | Chongqing, Dalian |
| Xiamen Airlines | Changchun, Changsha, Chongqing, Dalian, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Ningbo, Shenyang, Xiamen |
Notes:
- ^Note 1 : Lufthansa's flight from Qingdao to Frankfurt makes a stop in Shenyang. Lufthansa, however, does not have traffic rights to transport passengers between Qingdao and Shenyang.
Access
The airport is 30 km north of the city, and connected by taxi and an airport bus.