Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport

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Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport 杭州萧山国际机场 Hángzhōu Xiāoshān Guójì Jīchǎng

IATA: HGH - ICAO: ZSHC
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport Co. Ltd.
Serves		Hangzhou
Elevation AMSL		23 ft (7 m)
Coordinates		30°13′46″N, 120°26′04″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
07/25	11,811	3,600	Concrete

Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport (IATA: HGH, ICAO: ZSHC) (Simplified Chinese: 杭州萧山国际机场; pinyin: Hángzhōu Xiāoshān Guójì Jīchǎng) is the principal airport serving Hangzhou, a major city in the Yangtze River Delta region and the provincial capital of Zhejiang.

The airport is built on the southern shore of Qiantang River in the Xiaoshan district and is 27km away from downtown Hangzhou.

1 History
2 Facilities
3 Transportation
4 Airlines
- 4.1 Cargo Carriers
5 External links

[edit] History

The airport was planned to be constructed in 3 phases. The first phase of construction started in July 1997 and was completed and opened for traffic on December 30, 2000. It replaces the old Hangzhou airport which was a shared civil and military airfield. In September 2003, the central government of China declared HGH an international airport and in March 2004 the airport officially became an international airport after immigration and customs facilities were built and put into service.

The airport was a hub of CNAC Zhejiang. After the airlines' merger with Air China, Air China inherited the Hangzhou hub.

[edit] Facilities

Phase 1 of the airport occupies 7260 arces of land. It has a capacity of 8 million passengers and 110,000 tons of cargo a year and can handle aircraft as large as the Boeing 747-400. It has 1 runway of 3,600m in length and 45m in width. The passenger terminal can handle 3,600 passengers an hour and is 100,000 sq. metre in size (including an underground parking of 22,000 sq. metre). The departure level has 36 ticket counters, including 12 in the international side of the terminal. There are 2,900 seats in the departure lounge. The immigration and customs area occupies 9,500 sq. metre of terminal space.

The apron occupies 340,000 sq. metre of land and there are 12 jetways and 18 departure gates.

Maintenance facilities are certified to perform B-Check on all types of aircraft and C-Check on Boeing 737 and Boeing 757 aircraft.

[edit] Transportation

The Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway has an exit at the airport. Driving time from the airport to Shanghai is 2.5hrs, Suzhou is 1.5hrs，Wuxi is 2hrs，Wenzhou is 3.5hrs.

There are airport buses to downtown Hangzhou and Xiaoshan every 15-30 minutes. There are also airport buses to prefectures further away near Hangzhou such as Yiwu with a less frequency.

[edit] Airlines

Current destinations (as of February 2007):

Air China (Beijing, Busan, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Kunming, Sanya, Seoul-Incheon, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xi'an)
Air Macau (Macau)
All Nippon Airways (Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)
Asiana Airlines (Busan, Seoul-Incheon)
Cathay Pacific
- Dragonair (Hong Kong)
China Eastern Airlines (Beijing, Chengdu, Cheongju, Guangzhou, Guilin, Hong Kong, Jinan, Jinjiang, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Xiamen)
China Southern Airlines (Beijing, Changchun, Changsha, Dalian, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Haikou, Harbin, Kunming, Lanzhou, Sanya, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an, Xiamen, Yantai, Zhengzhou)
Deer Air (Guangzhou)
Hainan Airlines (Beijing, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hefei, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Zhengzhou)
Japan Airlines (Tokyo-Narita)
Okay Airways (Tianjin)
Shandong Airlines (Guilin, Jinan, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Xiamen)
Shanghai Airlines (Beijing, Guangzhou)
Shenzhen Airlines (Shenzhen, Zhengzhou)
Sichuan Airlines (Chengdu, Chongqing)
United Eagle Airlines (Changsha, Chengdu)
Xiamen Airlines (Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Fuzhou, Harbin, Jinjiang, Lijiang City, Macau, Nanchang, Osaka-Kansai, Qingdao, Sanya, Shenyang, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xiamen, Zhengzhou)