Macau International Airport
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| Aeroporto Internacional de Macau 澳門國際機場 |
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| IATA: MFM - ICAO: VMMC | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Sociedade do Aeroporto Internacional de Macau S.A.R.L. [1] | ||
| Serves | Macau | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 20 ft (6 m) | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 16/34 | 11,024 | 3,360 | Paved |
Macau International Airport is the only airport in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, now a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
The airport is a common transfer point for people traveling between mainland China and Taiwan, and is also one of the few world airports with direct flights to North Korea.
As in Hong Kong, Macau has its own immigration policies and is a separate customs territory from mainland China. Travellers between Macau and Mainland China need to go through immigration and customs checks. Flights between Macau and mainland China are therefore treated as international flights.
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[edit] History
The airport was opened in November 1995, during the Portuguese rule. Before then the city only had 2 temporary airports for small aeroplanes, in addition to several permanent heliports. Cathay Pacific operated seaplane service between Hong Kong and Macau in the late 1940s. The only air services Macau had in the 1990s was helicopter services operated by East Asia Airlines to Hong Kong.
Facilities in Macau:
- Seaplane hangar on Taipa Island
- Macau Naval Aviation Centre in the Outer Harbour - southeast side of the mainland
- Temporary airstrip on Coloane
- Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Pier, Macau heliport
[edit] Facilities
The airport's runway was built on a strip of reclaimed land in the sea, adjacent to Taipa Island, where the main terminal and air traffic control facilities are located. The runway is connected to the apron by two causeways. Runway 34 is ILS CAT II equipped.
The airport's designed capacity is 6,000,000 passengers per year, with processing capacity of up to 2,000 passengers per hour. The airport does not have a night curfew. There are 24 parking spaces for aircraft in the apron, with 4 jetways.
Despite its small physical size, the airport is capable of handling Boeing 747s, which forms a vital freight link between local manufacturers and overseas markets. Its catering facility can produce up to 10,000 meals per day.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
The following airlines serve Macau International Airport:
- AirAsia (Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu)
- Thai AirAsia (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
- Air Macau (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing, Chengdu, Guilin, Haikou, Kaoshiung, Kunming, Manila, Nanjing, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenzhen, Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan, Teagu, Xiamen)
- Asian Spirit (Davao, Manila-Clark) [seasonal]
- China Eastern Airlines (Kunming, Xian)
- Hainan Airlines (Beijing)
- East Asia Airlines (Hong Kong, Shenzhen) - helicopter service
- EVA Air (Kaoshiung, Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
- Shandong Airlines (Qingdao)
- Shanghai Airlines (Shanghai-Pudong)
- Shenzhen Airlines (Wuxi)
- Tiger Airways (Manila-Clark, Singapore)
- TransAsia Airways (Kaoshiung, Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
- Viva Macau (Jakarta, Malé) -scheduled flights (Phuket and Haiphong) -charter flights
- Xiamen Airlines (Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Xiamen)
Air Koryo serves the airport with irregular charter services to Pyongyang and Bangkok. It was a regularly scheduled service in the 1990s.
[edit] Cargo airlines
The following cargo airlines serve Macau International Airport (as of October 2006):
[edit] Terminated services
The following airlines previously served Macau International Airport:
[edit] External links
- Macau International Airport (Official site in English and Traditional Chinese)
- World Aero Data airport information for VMMC
