Airport expansion

The expansion project Phase III, which included a second runway and an additional Terminal, T2, started construction in 2007 and completed in 2010. Major elements of the construction were adding a second runway of 3,200 meters (10,498 ft 8 in) (which was later lengthened to 3,600 meters (11,811 ft 0 in) to satisfy the landings and takeoffs of Boeing 747 and the demands of Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.) to the east of the existing runway, building a parallel taxiway in between the two runways, and setting up a visual aid lighting support system. It also added a second terminal building (T2) with an area of 86,000 square meters (930,000 sq ft), 41 apron aircraft parking stands, and a freight station and support facilities occupying an area of 20,000 square meters (220,000 sq ft). It cost CNY3.3 billion (US$538 million).^[7] On 22 December 2010, the second runway was commissioned, which made Jiangbei Airport the fourth airport in mainland China to operate two runways, one exclusively for departures and the other exclusively for arrivals.^{[citation needed]}

The most recent expansion - Phase IV (dubbed the Eastern Expansion) - of Jiangbei Airport has been the biggest and contains the construction of a third runway and a new terminal, T3A, being 530,000 square meters (5,700,000 sq ft), more than double the size of the existing terminals (T1 and T2A/T2B) combined, costing CNY26.0 billion (US$4.1 billion).^{[citation needed]} Most of T3A's construction work was completed by the end of 2016. The terminal was inaugurated in August 2017, after which the airport has more than 725,000 square meters (7,800,000 sq ft) of terminal floor space, ranking Jiangbei Airport among China's 15 largest airports with an annual passenger capacity of 60 million and an annual cargo capacity of 2 million tons. ^{[citation needed]} Half of the terminal (concourses G & H) is for international flights from major cities in South East Asia, East Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America. After the completion of expansion Phase IV, Jiangbei Airport became the fourth airport in Greater China (inc. Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan) that has three runways in operation, of which Runway #3 (03/21) is operated independently on top of the pair #1 (02L/20R) and #2 (02R/20L).^{[citation needed]}

The fifth phase of expansion for Jiangbei Airport is currently underway. It is expected to include a new terminal, namely T3B and a fourth runway. The satellite terminal is designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and CSWADI, with interior design later updated by Nordic Office of Architecture. The terminal will be connected via underground air-side monorail. This phase will be finished in the mid-2020s.^{[citation needed]}

Note: Remote bays include the ones that serve the air freighters.

Surge in cargo traffic

Cargo traffic increased at an average rate of 14% in the first six months of 2011, driven by exponential growth in international cargo. International cargo/mail volumes increased by 12 times from 2010 levels in the first half of 2011, to more than 9000 tonnes. In the second half of 2011, this growth rate is expected to be maintained, with Hewlett-Packard, Asus and other brands of large international IT production capacity supporting the increase, to an anticipated 60,000 to 80,000 tonnes of international cargo throughout the whole year.^[8]

New international routes

Before 2010, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport's international destinations all terminated in East and Southeast Asia, including direct flights to Tokyo (has stop-over in Beijing or Shanghai), Seoul, Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket, Siem Reap, etc. In 2011, Qatar Airways opened a new route to Doha.^[9] Finnair’s services to Helsinki would later be added in 2012. ^{[citation needed]}

With the new T3A terminal in operation since August 2017,^[10] the airport has had multiple new international routes with non-stop flights to London, Dubai, Los Angeles, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Rome, Paris, Budapest, etc.^[11] T3A Terminal and the third runway of Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport started operation at 06:00 on 29 August 2017. In the meantime, T1 was temporarily closed, T2 serve only domestic flights operated by Sichuan Airlines, West Airlines, Huaxia Airlines and Spring Airlines, and the remaining flights were transferred to T3A. In addition, the airport operates a free trans-shipment shuttle between T2 and T3A in a 24-hour operation.^[12]

Statistics

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Year	Passengers		Ranking by PAX		Cargo		Aircraft operations
	Number	Increase	Domestic	Global	Tons	Increase	Number	Increase
2000	2,780,359	13.3%	11	-	62,214.5	2.2%	36,405	1.4%
2001	3,192,759	14.8%	11	-	64,597.1	3.8%	41,192	13.1%
2002	3,865,788	21.1%	12	-	71,464.9	10.6%	49,012	19.0%
2003	4,287,505	10.9%	12	-	76,921.5	7.6%	56,108	14.5%
2004	5,233,774	22.1%	12	-	87,568.0	13.8%	64,750	15.4%
2005	6,631,420	26.7%	11	-	100,909.9	15.2%	72,674	12.2%
2006	8,050,007	21.4%	10	-	120,178.3	19.1%	88,929	22.4%
2007	10,355,730	28.6%	10	-	143,472.4	19.4%	105,092	18.2%
2008	11,138,432	7.6%	10	-	160,256.4	11.7%	112,565	7.1%
2009	14,038,045	26.0%	10	91	186,005.9	16.1%	132,619	17.8%
2010	15,802,334	12.6%	10	90	195,686.6	5.2%	145,705	9.9%
2011	19,052,706	20.6%	9	76	237,572.5	21.4%	166,763	14.5%
2012	22,057,003	15.8%	9	70	268,642.4	13.1%	195,333	17.1%
2013	25,272,039	14.6%	9	62	280,149.8	4.3%	214,574	9.9%
2014	29,264,363	15.8%	8	57	302,335.8	7.9%	238,085	11.0%
2015	32,402,196	10.7%	9	-	318,781.5	5.4%	254,360	7.4%
2016	35,888,819	10.8%	9	54[13]	361,091.0	13.3%	276,807	8.4%
2017	38,715,210	7.9%	9	51[14]	366,278.3	1.4%	288,598	4.3%
2018	41,595,887	7.4%	9	-	382,160.8	4.3%	300,745	4.2%

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Source: CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China)

Number of domestic and international/regional passengers (bar chart, 2009–2018)

Source : CQA (Chongqing Airport Group Co., Ltd.)

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Freeways and roads

There is currently one airport freeway connecting the city center with the airport, and the second one is under construction and will be put into operation in the late 2016.^{[citation needed]} The airport freeway is 23 kilometers long, but it usually takes as many as 30 minutes to get from the city center to the airport because of the heavy traffic.

Chongqing Rail Transit (CRT)

Chongqing Rail Transit Line 3 runs from Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport's Terminal 2 station, going through the city center via Lianglukou station and onto its final stop, Yudong, covering a distance of 60 kilometres (37 mi). It takes around 50 minutes to get to the city center (Lianglukou).^[74]

Line 10, serves as the second metro line connecting the urban areas of Chongqing and the airport.^[75] One station of Line 10 is at Terminal 3 and the other is at Terminal 2. This line runs under Runways #1 (02L/20R) and #2 (02R/20L), connecting Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 in landside. Line 10 is the only metro line access to the new Terminal 3, while Line 3 will not be elongated to Terminal 3. Line 10 also reduces the travel distance between Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport and Chongqingbei Railway Station, which can facilitate the transfers of passengers between air and rail.

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