International airport of Baiyun

Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport or EDGE according to the code airport IATA, is the name of the international airport of the town of Canton in China (or Guangzhou in Chinese).

72 the historical year old airport was closed in order to replace it by a larger platform located at 28 kilometers of the center of the city. It preserves the same name and the same codes as the old one.

The cost of the new airport was of 19,8 billion Yuan. The second deliverable phase in 2009 must double its capacity.

" Baiyun" (白云) " means; clouds blancs" in Chinese. He is usually mentioned " New Baiyun" to distinguish the airport from old but this epithet does not form part of official name.

It is about the hub of the Chinese airline company China Southern.

Characteristics

Tracks: 2 (3800 m and 3600 m), the site is reserved for a third.
Capacity to date: 27 million passengers per annum.
Capacity envisaged in 2010:80 million passengers per annum.
Capacity of freight: 1 million tons
Capacity of freight envisaged in 2010:2,5 million tons
Destinations: 100 (the majority main roads)

Airline companies present

Air China (Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Sydney)
Air France (Paris CDG)
Air Philippines (Manila)
All Nippon Airways (Tokyo/Narita)
Asiana Airlines (Seoul/Incheon)
Clouded Southern (Aksu, Almaty, Altay, Amsterdam, Bangkok, Beihai, Beijing, Bishkek, Busan, Changchun, Changde, Changsha, Changzhi, Changzhou, Chengdu, Cheongju, Chongqing, Daegu, Dali, Dalian, Dali City, Dandong, Datong, Diqing, Dubai, Fukuoka, Fuzhou, Guilin, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Harbin, Hefei, Hiroshima, Ho Chi Minh City, HongKong, Hotan, Huangshan, Islamabad, Jakarta, Jilin, Jinghong, Jinjiang, Kashi, Khabarovsk, Korla, Kuqa, Kuala Lumpur, Kunming, Lanzhou, Laoag City, Lhassa, Lianyungang, Lijiang City, Liuzhou, Los Angeles, Manila, Meixien, Melbourne, Moscow Cheremetievo, Mudanjiang, Nagoya, Nanchang, Nanchong, Nanjing, Nanning, Nantong, Nanyang, Ningbo, Novosibirsk, Osaka/Kansai, Paris/CDG, Phnom Penh, Penang, Qiemo, Qiqihar, Sanya, Sapporo, Shanghai, Shantou, Sharjah, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Seoul/Incheon, Singapore, Sydney, Tachang, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Tokyo/Narita, Tongren, Toyama, Urumqi, Yining, Weihai, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Wuxi, Wuyishan, Wuzhou, Xiamen, Xi' year, Xining, Xuzhou, Yancheng, Yanji, Yantai, Yinchuan, Yiwu, Zhanjiang, Zhengzhou, Zhuhai)
Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Bangkok)
Finnair (Helsinki)
Garuda Indonesia (Jakarta)
HongKong Express train (HongKong)
Japan Airlines (Tokyo/Narita, Osaka/Kansai)
Kenya Airways (Nairobi, via Dubai)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Manila, Munich)
Malaysia Airlines (Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Kuching)
Northwest Airlines (Strait via NRT, Honolulu via NRT, Tokyo/Narita)
the Thai East Airways (Bangkok)
Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
Thai Airways (Bangkok)
Vietnam Airlines (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City)

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