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Volume 14,Issue 3 Autumn 2012

Wuhan Tianhe Airport will join the ten-million-passenger airport ranks by the end of the year

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From January through June, Wuhan Tianhe airport reported a 5.245 million passenger throughput and is expected to ascend to the ten-million-passenger airport ranks by the end of the year.
 

From January through June, Wuhan Tianhe airport reported a 5.245 million passenger throughput and is expected to ascend to the ten-million-passenger airport ranks by the end of the year.
In the 1st half of this year, there were 5.245 million passenger trips flowed in and out of the Tianhe airport of Wuhan and the year-on-year growth rate was 21.05%. Mail and cargo turnover was 41.5 thousand tons, up by 1.93% from the previous year. The number of landings and takeoffs were at 52.9 thousand, an increase of 13.14% compared with same period of last year. Since the country’s domestic initiation in 2006 of the General Reform of the 1st Air Transport Trial Spot, Wuhan has become an air transport hot zone. Many airlines have injected resources to increase the operation capacity in the city where positive result was quickly identified as passenger throughput went up and exceeded 9.2 million in 2008. At present, 21 domestic and foreign airlines’ air routes are open. After this August; two more Taiwanese airlines, TransAsia Airways and UNI-Air, will also be stationed in Wuhan, making total number of airlines 23 by then. Currently there are 10 airports in the country with annual passenger turnover exceeding 10 million.

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