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Urumqi Diwuopu Airport and Urumqi FlightsAirport Code: URC Name Airport: Urumqi Diwuopu Airport Accommodation: Urumqi Hotels Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport is located in Diwopu, a suburb north-west of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. The airport is 16 km away from downtown Ürümqi. It is a focus city for China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines.
Ürümqi Airport was opened to foreign passengers in 1973, and has been the emergency landing ground for airlines to Europe and west Asia.
The airport covers an area of 4.84 million sq. metres. Its newly built runway is 3600 m (11,811 ft) in length. The airport can allow the landing of large aircraft such as the Boeing 747. The 110,000 sq. metre apron can accommodate over 30 aircraft.
In 2002, 1,673,400 passengers and 35,000 tons of goods passed through Ürümqi Airport.
Summer 2005 saw Diwopu get a boost when the airport started receiving major foreign airlines; of them Korean Air was the first to start service from Seoul seasonally in June; two months later, Pakistan International Airlines began operations from Islamabad flying year round. Both airlines used wide body Airbus aircraft. PIA's operation did not last long and was suspended in April 2006.
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