OREANDA-NEWS. November 29, 2012. In the morning of Nov. 27, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport ushered in the 20,000,000th passenger of this year. It means that passenger throughput of Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport exceeds 20 million person-times in 2012, and the annual passenger throughput is expected to achieve 21.66 million person-times by the end of 2012.

With plateau air routes as breakthrough, "Travel in West, Fly in Chongqing" built by Chongqing Airport and transit service is one of featured brands to attract passengers, and Chongqing Airport has already become one of main aviation channels of plateau air routes including Jiuzhai, Lhasa, Lijiang etc. At the same time, Chongqing Airport went to passenger source cities including Changsha, Wuhan, Beijing etc to hold promotion conferences, and introduced transit preferential policy of Chongqing Airport. Up till now, at Chongqing Airport, 40 flights take off and land in peak hour, 643 flights take off and land on peak day, and passenger throughput on peak day is 76,000 person-times. In aspect of freight, freight throughput of 240,000t in total is achieved, increasing by 16% on year-on-year basis.

During "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", Chongqing Airport will establish a 500,000m2 T3A airport terminal and a 3,800m third runway, strive to fully go into construction at end of the year, and tail-in work and related environmental planning are expected to be conducted by 2015. After establishment, it can satisfy the following demands: annual passenger throughput of 45 million person-times, and freight throughput of 1.1 million tons. Moreover, the biggest plane A380 in the world can take off and land on the third runway. By 2015, the airport will build two groups of runway that operate independently, to make flight take off and land within about 1.5 minutes. Moreover, with the construction of the two rail traffic routes and one intercity route, the airport will achieve comprehensive transfer, to make travel of passengers more convenient.