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Diwopu Airport



Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport
乌鲁木齐地窝堡国际机场
Wūlǔmùqí Dìwōpù Guójì Jīcháng
IATA: URC – ICAO: ZWWW

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Ürümqi Diwopu
Location of airport in China
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Civil Aviation Administration of China
Serves Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China
Location Diwopu
Elevation AMSL 648 m / 2,125 ft
Coordinates 43°54′26″N 087°28′27″E / 43.90722°N 87.47417°E / 43.90722; 87.47417
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 3,600 11,811 Concrete
Source: DAFIF

Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport (simplified Chinese: 乌鲁木齐地窝堡国际机场; traditional Chinese: 烏魯木齊地窩堡國際機場; pinyin: Wūlǔmùqí Dìwōpù Guójì Jīcháng) (IATA: URC, ICAO: ZWWW) is located in Diwopu, a suburb north-west of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. The airport is 16 km (10 mi) away from downtown Ürümqi. It is a focus city for China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines. It is the largest airport in western China and as of 2008, it is ranked the 21st busiest airport in China by passenger traffic.

History

Ürümqi Airport was opened to foreign passengers in 1973, and has been the emergency landing ground for airlines to Europe and west Asia.

Facilities

The airport covers an area of 4.84 million sq. metres. Its newly built runway is 3600 m (11,811 ft) in length. The airport can allow the landing of large aircraft such as the Boeing 747. The 110,000 sq. metre apron can accommodate over 30 aircraft.

Terminal 3

Construction of Terminal 3 to the west of the current terminal building began in April, 2007 at a cost of 2.8 billion yuan (350 million U.S. dollars). It will increase Diwopu's ability to handle more than three times its current (2007) 5.13 million passengers annually to 16.35 million passengers and also be able to handle 275,000 tons of cargo and 155,000 aircraft a year. Terminal 3 will also add an additional 21 jet bridges and nearly 106,000 square meters of new terminal space.

Usage

In 2002, 1,673,400 passengers and 35,000 tons of goods passed through Ürümqi Airport.

Summer 2005 saw Diwopu get a boost when the airport started receiving major foreign airlines; of them Korean Air was the first to start service from Seoul seasonally in June; two months later, Pakistan International Airlines began operations from Islamabad flying year round. Both airlines used wide body Airbus aircraft. PIA's operation did not last long and was suspended in April 2006.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Air Astana Astana
Air China Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Jinan, Lanzhou
Ariana Afghan Airlines Kabul
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku
China Eastern Airlines Kunming, Lanzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Xi'an
China Southern Airlines Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hefei, Hotan, Jinan, Kashgar, Lanzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, Taiyuan, Wuhan, Xi'an, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou
China Southern Airlines Almaty, Ashgabat, Baku, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Irkutsk, Islamabad, Khujand, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Novosibirsk, Osh, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Dragonair Hong Kong [seasonal charter]
Hainan Airlines Aksu, Beijing-Capital, Changsha, Chengdu, Dunhuang, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Kashgar, Korla, Kunming, Lanzhou, Sanya, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Yining
Hainan Arlines Astana
Itek Air Bishkek
Kam Air Kabul
Korean Air Seasonal: Seoul-Incheon
Kyrgyzstan Aircompany Bishkek
Shandong Airlines Jinan
S7 Airlines Novosibirsk
Somon Air Dushanbe
Tajik Air Dushanbe

Cargo

Airlines Destinations
China Southern Airlines Frankfurt
China Southern Airlines Shanghai-Pudong


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General Info
Country China
ICAO ID ZWWW
Time UTC+8
Latitude 43.907106
43° 54' 25.58" N
Longitude 87.474244
087° 28' 27.28" E
Elevation 2125 feet
648 meters
Type Civil
Magnetic Variation 002° E (01/06)
Operating Agency CIVIL GOVERNMENT, (LANDING FEES AND DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE MAY BE REQUIRED)
Alternate Name WULUMUQI DIWOPU
Near City Urumqi
Operating Hours SEE REMARKS FOR OPERATING HOURS OR COMMUNICATIONS FOR POSSIBLE HOURS


Communications
TWR
Opr H24.
118.1
125.0
GND
Opr H24.
121.65
ATIS
Opr H24.
126.7


Runways
ID Dimensions Surface PCN ILS
07/25 11811 x 148 feet
3600 x 45 meters
CONCRETE. 074RAWT YES


Navaids
Type ID Name Channel Freq Distance From Field Bearing From Navaid
VOR-DME URC URUMQI 104X 115.7 At Field -
NDB FK FUKANG - 369 9.9 NM 234.9


Remarks
CSTMS/AG/IMG Avbl.
FUEL Opr 2200-1600Z. (NC-J)
OPR HOURS Opr HS or O/R.



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