Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport (IATA: URC, ICAO: ZWWW) (simplified Chinese: 乌鲁木齐地窝堡国际机场; ; pinyin: Wūlǔmùqí Dìwōpù Guójì Jīcháng) 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 away from downtown Ürümqi. It is a focus city for China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines. As of 2008, it is ranked the 21st busiest airport in China by passenger...
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Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport (IATA: URC, ICAO: ZWWW) (simplified Chinese: 乌鲁木齐地窝堡国际机场; ; pinyin: Wūlǔmùqí Dìwōpù Guójì Jīcháng) 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 away from downtown Ürümqi. It is a focus city for China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines. As of 2008, it is ranked the 21st busiest airport in China by passenger traffic.
Ürümqi Airport was opened to foreign passengers in 1973, and has been the emergency landing ground for airlines to Europe and west Asia.
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.
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...
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