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CAAC Nods to Name New Chengdu Airport "Chengdu Tianfu International Airport"

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CAAC Nods to Name New Chengdu Airport "Chengdu Tianfu International Airport" - Airports / Routes publisher
Tatjana Obrazcova
Country: China
Source: WCARN

Chengdu has been given the green light to name its new airport "Chengdu Tianfu International Airport", local media SCTV news reported.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has agreed to name Chengdu's new airport "Chengdu Tianfu International Airport", an airport to be located at the Lujia town of Jianyang city, 51.5 kilometers away from the center of Chengdu city.

The name of the new airport has been put on record at the CAAC. All documents, files, design drawings and publications related to the new airport shall be subject to the official name of "Chengdu Tianfu International Airport".

The new airport was given the name "Chengdu Tianfu International Airport" in Feb. 2015, according to Government Affairs Service Center of Chengdu Municipal People's Government.

The terminal of the new airport is designed to look like a "Sun Bird". Construction is scheduled to begin at the end of 2015 and complete in 2018.

The new airport will have an investment of 69.26 billion yuan and plans to build a terminal occupying an area of 1.26 million square meters, nearly 1.8 times of the Terminal 2 of Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU). Among all domestic airports being planned and constructed, Chengdu's new airport ranks the second only after Beijing's new airport in terms of facility scale.

Three runways will be constructed, aiming to handle 40 million passengers, 700 thousand tonnes of mail & cargo and 320 thousand takeoffs and landings by 2025.

After its completion, Chengdu will be the third city owning two airports in China after Beijing and Shanghai.

At present, the airport is still waiting for the official feasibility study.





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