An alliance of 27 airports at Bohai Sea region

An aviation market strategic alliance of the airports in Northwest backland and Bohai Sea region had been established in Dalian, which led by Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport Group Co., Ltd., together with the airport group corporations of Helongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Tianjin, Hebei and Shandong, as well as the airports of Yantai, Weihai, Linyi and Weifang.
As introduced by Du Zhiyuan, General Manager of Dalian Airport Co., Ltd., the alliance has 4 main goals, among which the first one is to construct a network of regional aviation with Dalian as the hub. Most of the airports in the alliance are already supplementary airports to each other with Dalian acting as the hub. By means of the effective connection of flight routes and time, they can increase air transport volume and provide passengers with more economic and convenient routes. The alliance includes 27 airports, e.g. Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport, Harbin Taiping International Airport, Chifeng Airport, Tianjin Binhai International Airport, Shijiazhuang Airport, Ji’nan Airport and Weifang Airport. Geologically, it basically covers the northeast old industrial base, and economic circle surrounding Bohai, the two major national strategies plates. For the region in this alliance, the total GDP in 2008 was 7,690.6 billion Yuan, accounting for about 26% of the national GDP, which has a gradual increase for the proportion of economic aggregate in every year. Secondly, the transfer service will be well handled so that the relevant airports in the alliance can have the transfer in a whole route, achieve the seamless and unified transfer process and service standards.