Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport

Airport serving Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China

URC

Location in Xinjiang

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URC

Location in China

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Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
07/25	3,600	11,811	Concrete

Statistics (2021)

Passengers	16,880,507
Aircraft movements	138,724
Cargo (metric tons)	137,444.8

Source: DAFIF^[1][2] Source: List of the busiest airports in China

Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	乌鲁木齐地窝堡国际机场
Traditional Chinese	烏魯木齊地窩堡國際機場
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wūlǔmùqí Dìwōpù Guójì Jīchǎng other Mandarin Xiao'erjing ءُلُمُٿِ دِوَعپُ قُوَعکِ كِچْا
Uyghur name
Uyghur	ئۈرۈمچى دىۋوپۇ خەلقئارا ئايروپورتى‎
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Ürümchi Diwopu Xelqara Ayroporti Yengi Yeziⱪ Ürümqi Diwopu Həlⱪ’ara Ayroporti Siril Yëziqi Үрүмчи Дизопу Хәлқара Айропорти

Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport (IATA: URC, ICAO: ZWWW) is an international airport serving Ürümqi, the capital of Northwest China‘s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is located in the Diwopu township of Xinshi district, 16 km (9.9 mi) northwest of downtown Ürümqi. As a hub for China Southern Airlines and as a focus city for Hainan Airlines, the airport handled 23,027,788 passengers in 2018, making it the 19th busiest airport in China by passenger traffic.^[3]

History

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Urumqi Airport was opened to foreign passengers in 1973,^[4] and has been used for emergency landings for flights between Europe and west Asia.

Facilities

The airport covers an area of 484 hectares (1,200 acres). Its newly built runway is 3,600 m (11,800 ft) in length. The airport can allow the landing of large aircraft such as the Boeing 747. The 110,000 m² (1,200,000 sq ft) apron can accommodate over 30 aircraft.^{[citation needed]}

Runways

• The first runway (07/25) was built in 1994 to accept the expansion, the flight zone level 4E, runway length 3,600 meters (11,811 ft), 45 meters (148 ft) wide, PCN value of 74, elevation 648 meters, with Class II precision approach.
• The second runway (???): under construction, located to the north of the current runway, flight zone level 4F, runway length 3,600 meters (11,811 ft), 60 meters (197 ft) wide.
• The third runway (???): under construction, located to the north of the current runway, flight zone level 4F, runway 3,200 meters (10,499 ft) long, 60 meters (197 ft) wide.

Terminals

Terminal 1

The original terminal opened in 1974. It was closed between April 23, 2011, and August 30, 2013, for renovation.^[5] On April 1, 2014, operations were resumed.^[6] After the transformation of the T1 terminal has six security channels, 19 check-in counters, with the peak hourly 700 times the business capacity.^{[clarification needed][7]} This terminal is mainly for regional aviation around Xinjiang province and low-cost aviation use, including Tianjin Airlines, Capital Aviation, Spring Airlines, Yunnan Xiangpeng Airlines, China United Airlines, Okay Airways and Western Airlines.^[8]

Terminal 2

Construction on this terminal started in April 1994, was completed in December 2001 through the national acceptance, and on May 12, 2002, the terminal opened. On July 10, 2010, it closed for a renovation project, and resumed operations on April 16, 2011.^[9] It serves most domestic routes outside of Xinjiang province, except for China Southern, Xiamen and Chongqing Airlines flights.

Terminal 3

Construction of Terminal 3 to the west of the older terminal building began in April 2007 at a cost of 2.8 billion yuan (350 million U.S. dollars). It increased Diwopu's ability to handle more than three times its 2007 capacity of 5.13 million passengers annually to 16.35 million passengers annually. It can also handle 275,000 tons of cargo and 155,000 aircraft a year. Terminal 3 added 22 more jet bridges and nearly 106,000 square meters of new terminal space.^[10] The terminal opened in 2009.

Terminal 4

An expansion project, which began in 2017, is underway and will see a new terminal building covering almost 400,000 sq meters as well as two additional runways north of the existing one.^[11]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

Statistics

Other facilities

When the airline existed, China Xinjiang Airlines had its headquarters on the airport property.^[36]

Ground Transport

Line 1 of Ürümqi Metro opened on 25 October 2018 and links the airport to downtown Ürümqi.

See also

• List of airports in China
• China's busiest airports by passenger traffic

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport.

• Official website
• Current weather for Urum-Qi / Diwopu, China (ZWWW) at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for URC / ZWWW at Aviation Safety Network
• China: Terror plot targeted Olympics MSNBC 9 March 2008