71.The new Tianjin Binhai International Terminal is bringing along new development opportunities
http://www.tj-summerdavos.cn 2014-09-08 19:52

At the zero hour on April 28th, 2008, a new terminal of Tianjin Airport was officially put into service. In July, 2009, the passenger volume exceeded 530,000, with a year-on-year increase rate of 30 percent, 10.2 percent higher than that of last year.

The new building, the construction of which started on August 8th, 2005, is located on the east of the airstrips, with the main building area of 116,000 square meters, building height of 40.3 meters, width of 165 meters and the distance of 480 meters from the main entrance to the end of the central hallway. The exterior facades are made up of light green glasses and the interior is bright and well lit with a theme of clean white.

The new terminal is a two-level structure with a partial third level. The fourth floor of the main building is for office and functional area. The first floor of the main building is the arrival hall, the second the departure hall, which is mainly composed of domestic and international departure, check-in hall, security, airport lounge, first-class lounge and other accessory facilities. It has 19 parking aprons, 60 ticket service counters and 17 security aisles. The passenger boarding bridge is of a scissor-shape split-level design, which completely separates the arrival and departure flow. Besides, there is a transit counter on the interlayer to allow passengers to go through transition procedure.

With the new building being put into operation, the airport is divided into the East Area, which is the passenger terminal area, and the West one, which is the cargo terminal area, by the existing airstrips. The new terminal is capable of handling a passenger flow of 10 million person-times annually.

Tianjin is one of the cities which initiated civil air transportation in China. Tianjin Binhai International Airport was built in November, 1939. On August 1st, 1950, the first civil flight course of the People’s Republic of China went into operation. The airport was also responsible for training professional pilots and aviation technical people and therefore it is famous as “Cradle for New China’s Civil Aviation”. In October 1995, Tianjin Zhangguizhuang Airport was approved by the State Council as International Aerial Line Airport and in December of the same year, its name was changed into Tianjin Binhai International Airport, approved by the General Administration of the Civil Aviation of China.

It is estimated that by 2010, the airport will have more than 100 domestic and international air courses. The domestic air courses will cover all provincial capital cities, municipalities and major tourist cities. Domestic air course network radiating around Tianjin will be established and all middle- and small-sized airports less than 800 kilometers away from Tianjin will be open to air traffic. There will be fast international air courses to ROK and Japan. The next year, tourist air courses to Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and India will be launched, while courses to America and European countries are supposed to open as soon as possible.

It is estimated that by the year 2020, the passenger volume of Tianjin Airport will be sixteen-fold of that in 2000.

 
Source:Enorth.com.cn

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