Urumqi Diwopu International Airport

Urumqi Diwopu International Airport

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Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport (IATA: URC, ICAO: ZWWW) is an airport serving Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. It is located in Diwopu township of Xinshi district, 16 km (10 mi) northwest of downtown Ürümqi. A hub for China Southern Airlines and as a focus city for Hainan Airlines, the airport handled 23,027,788 passengers in 2018, making it the 19th busiest airport in China by passenger traffic.

History

Ürümqi Airport was opened to foreign passengers in 1973,^{[citation needed]} and has been used for emergency landings for flights between Europe and west Asia. On September 12, 2007, British citizen Akmal Shaikh was arrested for drug-trafficking, after customs officers discovered 4 kilograms (9 Ib) of heroin in his baggage. He was sentenced to death and executed on December 29, 2009.

Facilities

The airport covers an area of 484 hectares (1,200 acres). Its newly built runway is 3,600 m (11,800 ft) in length. The airport can allow the landing of large aircraft such as the Boeing 747. The 110,000 m² (1,200,000 sq ft) apron can accommodate over 30 aircraft.^{[citation needed]}

Runways

The first runway (07/25): in 1994 to accept the expansion, the flight zone level 4E, runway length 3600 meters, 45 meters wide, PCN value of 74, elevation 648 meters, with Class II precision approach.
The second runway (???): under construction, located to the north of current runway, flight zone level 4F, runway length 3600 meters, 60 meters wide.
The third runway (???): under construction, located to the north of current runway, flight zone level 4F, runway 3200 meters long, 60 meters wide.

Terminals

Terminal 1

The original terminal opened in 1974. It was closed between April 23, 2011 and August 30, 2013 for renovation.^[4] On April 1, 2014, operations were resumed.^[5] After the transformation of the T1 terminal has six security channels, 19 check-in counters, with the peak hourly 700 times the business capacity.^{[clarification needed]}^[6] This terminal is mainly for the regional aviation around Xinjiang province and low-cost aviation use, including Tianjin Airlines, Capital Aviation, Spring Airlines, Yunnan Xiangpeng Airlines, China United Airlines, Okay Airways and Western Airlines.

Terminal 2

Construction on this terminal started in April 1994, was completed in December 2001 through the national acceptance, and on May 12, 2002 the terminal opened. On July 10, 2010 it closed for a renovation project, and resumed operations on April 16, 2011.^[8] It serves most domestic routes outside of Xinjiang province, except for China Southern, Xiamen and Chongqing airline flights.

Terminal 3

Construction of Terminal 3 to the west of the older terminal building began in April 2007 at a cost of 2.8 billion yuan (350 million U.S. dollars). It increased Diwopu’s ability to handle more than three times its current (2007) 5.13 million passengers annually to 16.35 million passengers. It can also handle 275,000 tons of cargo and 155,000 aircraft a year. Terminal 3 added 22 more jet bridges and nearly 106,000 square meters of new terminal space.^[9] The terminal opened in 2009.

Terminal 4

An expansion project, which began in 2017, is underway and will see a new terminal building covering almost 400,000 sq meters as well as two additional runways north of the existing one.^[10]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
9 Air	Guangzhou
Air Arabia	Sharjah
Air Astana	Almaty, Nur-Sultan
Air China	Aksu, Beijing–Capital, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hotan, Kashgar, Tianjin, Wuhan, Yining, Yuncheng Hajj: Jeddah
Ariana Afghan Airlines	Seasonal: Kabul
Beijing Capital Airlines	Beijing–Capital, Xiamen, Zhengzhou
China Eastern Airlines	Guangzhou, Hami, Hangzhou, Hefei, Kashgar, Kunming, Lanzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong, Shiyan,^[11] Taiyuan, Wuhan, Wuxi, Xi’an
China Southern Airlines	Aksu, Almaty, Altay, Ashgabat, Baku, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi,^[12] Baotou, Beijing–Capital, Bishkek, Bole, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Dubai–International, Dushanbe, Fuyun, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Hohhot, Hotan, Islamabad, Jinan, Karamay, Kashgar, Khujand, Korla, Kunming, Kuqa, Lahore,^[13] Lanzhou, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Nanjing, Nanning, Nanyang, Novosibirsk, Nur-Sultan, Qingdao, Ruoqiang, Sanya, Shache, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Tacheng, Taipei–Taoyuan, Taiyuan, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Tianjin, Vienna,^[14] Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xi’an, Xiamen, Xining, Xuzhou, Yinchuan, Yining, Zhengzhou
Hainan Airlines	Beijing–Capital, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hangzhou, Jinan, Kashgar, Lanzhou, Nanjing, Sanya, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xi’an, Xiamen, Xining, Yichang, Zhengzhou
Hebei Airlines	Shijiazhuang
Jiangxi Air	Nanchang, Xi’an
Juneyao Airlines	Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong
Korean Air	Seasonal: Seoul–Incheon^[15]
Lion Air	Charter: Denpasar/Bali
Loong Air	Hangzhou, Luoyang
Lucky Air	Chengdu, Kashgar, Kunming, Lanzhou, Ngari
Okay Airways	Changsha, Xi’an
Qingdao Airlines	Lanzhou, Qingdao
S7 Airlines	Moscow–Domodedovo,^[16] Novosibirsk
Shandong Airlines	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Hotan, Jinan, Kashgar, Kunming, Lanzhou, Nanjing, Nanning, Osaka–Kansai,^[17] Qingdao, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Xiamen, Yantai, Yinchuan, Zhuhai
Shanghai Airlines	Hotan, Lanzhou, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong
Shenzhen Airlines	Korla, Lanzhou, Nanchang, Shenzhen
Sichuan Airlines	Beihai, Beijing–Capital, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Kashgar, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Sanya, Sydney,^[18] Xi’an, Xining, Zhengzhou, Zhongwei^[19]
Somon Air	Dushanbe^[20]
Spring Airlines	Luoyang, Ningbo, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shijiazhuang, Xi’an, Yangzhou
Suparna Airlines	Jinan, Yining
Tianjin Airlines	Aksu, Altay, Bole, Changchun, Chongqing, Datong, Haikou, Hotan, Kashgar, Korla, Kuqa, Nalati, Sanya, Shache, Tacheng, Tianjin, Xi’an, Yining, Zhengzhou
Urumqi Air	Changsha, Chengdu, Haikou, Hefei, Hotan, Irkutsk,^[21] Karamay, Kashgar, Lanzhou, Lianyungang, Mianyang, Nanchong, Qingdao,^[22] Qionghai, Shihezi, Singapore,^[23] Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xi’an, Yancheng, Yining, Zhengzhou^[22]
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent^[24]
West Air	Chongqing, Zhengzhou
XiamenAir	Changsha, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Huai’an, Jinan, Quanzhou, Xiamen, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou