Tianjin Binhai International Airport

Tianjin Binhai International Airport 天津滨海国际机场 Tiānjīn Bīnhăi Guójì Jīchǎng
IATA: TSN ICAO: ZBTJ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Civil Aviation Administration of China
Serves	Tianjin
Elevation AMSL	3 m / 10 ft
Coordinates	39°07′28″N 117°20′46″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 16/34 3,600 11,811 Concrete

Tianjin Binhai International Airport (IATA: TSN, ICAO: ZBTJ) (Chinese: 天津滨海国际机场; pinyin: Tiānjīn Guójì Jīchǎng) is an airport located east of Tianjin, in Dongli District. It is one of the major air cargo centers in the People's Republic of China.

It is the hub airport for the newly established and privately owned Okay Airways.

International flights are primarily operated by Korean Air and Asiana Airlines to Seoul-Incheon International Airport, All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines to Nagoya-Chubu Centrair International Airport.

In 2008, the airport handled 166,558 tonnes of freight, and became the 11th busiest airport in China. Tianjin Airport is also among the fastest-growing airports in China, registering a 20.2% increase by passenger traffic and a 33.2% increase in terms of cargo traffic in 2008.

New terminal and second runway

Construction of a new terminal began in August 2005 and was completed by the end of 2007 scheduled to be in full operation by 2008. The airport expansion will provide a state-of-the-art terminal building, which is more than three times bigger than the current one at 116,000 m². When the three construction phases are complete the airport terminal will be 180,000 m² and be able to handle 40 million passengers a year. Over the period of the project the airport site will enlarge from the current 25,000km² to 80,000km². The airport as a whole will resemble Amsterdam's Schiphol airport in size and will be able to handle over 500,000 tons of cargo and 200,000 flights a year.

The expansion, with a total investment of nearly 3 billion yuan (409.5 million U.S. dollars), started in August 2005. The runway was also widened to 75 meters from the current 50 meters and lengthened 400 meters to 3,600 meters. In March 2008, the airport will also begin construction of a second runway, and the expected number of passengers will exceed ten million (using the old and new terminals).

Airlines and destinations

Passenger airlines

• Aero Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
• AirAsia X (Kuala Lumpur-Sepang) [begins April 2]
• Air China (Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hong Kong, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shenzhen, Taipei-Taoyuan)
• All Nippon Airways (Nagoya-Centrair) [ends March 29]
• Asiana Airlines (Seoul-Incheon)
• China Eastern Airlines (Shanghai-Hongqiao)
• China Southern Airlines (Dalian, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hangzhou, Sanya, Shenyang, Wuhan)
• Hainan Airlines (Changchun, Dalian, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Zhengzhou)
• Hong Kong Airlines (Hong Kong)
• Japan Airlines (Nagoya-Centrair)
• Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)
• Okay Airways (Changsha, Haikou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Sanya, Shenyang)
• Shandong Airlines (Qingdao)
• Shanghai Airlines (Shanghai-Hongqiao)
• Shenzhen Airlines (Changchun, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen)
  • Kunpeng Airlines (Taiyuan, Xi'an, Yulin)
• Sichuan Airlines (Chongqing)
• Spring Airlines (Shanghai-Hongqiao)
• Vladivostok Air (Abakan, Ekaterinburg)
• Xiamen Airlines (Hangzhou, Singapore, Wuxi, Xiamen)

Cargo airlines

• Airstars (Abakan)
• Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (Bratsk)
• Grizodubova Air Company (Abakan)
• Singapore Airlines Cargo (Anchorage, Los Angeles, Nanjing, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore)
• TESIS Aviation Enterprise (Novosibirsk)
• TransAVIAExport Airlines (Novosibirsk)
• Volga-Dnepr (Abakan)

See also

• Transportation in Tianjin
• List of airports in the People's Republic of China
• China's busiest airports by passenger traffic

References

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