Nanjing Lukou International Airport
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The airport Nanjing Lukou (Chinese南京 禄 口 国际 机场, Pinyin Nanjing Lùkǒu Guoji Jīchǎng ) is the international airport in the provincial capital of Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. It is measured by passenger traffic of China's fourteenth largest airport. The airport is located in the district road LuKou (禄 口 街道) of the Borough of Jiangning.
Airlines and destinations
The airport is served, among others, the following airlines: passenger transport:
- Air China: Beijing, Chengdu
- Asiana Airlines to Seoul -Incheon
- Chengdu Airlines: Chengdu
- China Eastern Airlines: Beijing, Changsha, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Kunming, Ningbo, Osaka - Kansai, Seoul -Incheon, Shanghai - Pudong, Singapore, Taipei -Taoyuan, Tokyo - Narita, Xiamen, Xi'an
- China Southern Airlines: Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen
- Dragonair: Hong Kong
- Hainan Airlines: Beijing, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Shenzhen
- Lucky Air: Kunming, Wuhan
- Lufthansa: Frankfurt
- Mandarin Airlines: Taipei -Taoyuan
- Shandong Airlines: Fuzhou Kunming, Ningbo
- Shanghai Airlines: Beijing, Guangzhou
- Shenzhen Airlines: Changchun, Changsha, Guangzhou, Shenzhen
- Xiamen Airlines: Changsha, Xiamen
Freight:
- China Airlines Cargo: Taipei -Taoyuan
- China Postal Airlines: Beijing, Changsha, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai - Pudong, Shenzhen, Xi'an
- Singapore Airlines Cargo: Anchorage, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles
Expansion plans
As of 2013, the following development plan start (Phase 2):
- Construction of a second terminal
- A380 capable of making ( build a second 3600x60 meters long runway )
- Construction of new taxiways
- Construction of 42 new parking areas
The expected completion in 2020, the airport will have a capacity of 30 million passengers and 800,000 tons of cargo. The costs amount to about 1.5 billion dollars.
By 2030 it is planned from the subway in Nanjing, the center with the city to connect.
Incidents
- On 31 July 1992 plunged a Yakovlev Yak -42 ( flight 7552 ) of the former China General Aviation 600 meters after the start in a pond and caught fire. 108 people died, including 8 of 10 crew members and 100 of 116 passengers.