air transportation, an important part of 's construction of comprehensive transportation system in Hubei. The data shows that in the past 10 years, Hubei's civil aviation industry has achieved leaping growth -
Wuhan Tianhe Airport passenger traffic points increased from 76 to 144, almost doubling; civil airport increased from 4 to 8, The number is comparable to that of Guangdong, a major economic province; the province's civil aviation throughput has jumped from 15 million to 58 million; all 17 cities and prefectures have entered the 2-hour airport life circle.
took off from the wind, and a more and more convenient and open Hubei appeared in the world.
All 17 cities and prefectures in the province have entered the 2-hour airport life circle
In 2012, only 4 cities in the province, including Wuhan, Xiangyang, Yichang, and Enshi, have civil airports.
10 years have passed, four new civil airports in the province have been "happy to mention", and travel dividends have been released one after another:
Shennongjia Hongping Airport was officially opened in May 2014. Since then, the "mountain is not high", passengers can fly to Wuhan within 1 hour.
Shiyan Wudangshan Airport opened in 2016, and the annual passenger throughput is rising steadily. By 2019, it exceeded 1.5 million in three years. In January 2021, Jingzhou Shashi Airport opened to traffic, which means that the first civil airport will be ushered in the central part of Hubei and Jianghan Plain. From Jingzhou , passengers can arrive in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen within 2 hours.
On July 17, 2022, Ezhou Huahu Airport, which mainly focuses on cargo and supplemented by passenger transportation, was opened to traffic, and the first batch of routes from Ezhou to Beijing, Xiamen and other places were opened.
In addition, the other four airports have also continued to renovate and expand in the past 10 years, and the throughput capacity of civil airports in the province has jumped from 15 million to 58 million. In the national civil airport ranking in 2021, 5 airports in our province, including Tianhe, Liuji, Three Gorges , Enshi, Shiyan , were shortlisted in the top 100.
Xiangyang Liuji Airport . (Photo courtesy of Liuji Airport)
At present, the province has achieved a balanced and dense distribution of airports: Wuhan metropolitan area (Wuhan Tianhe Airport, Ezhou Huahu Airport), Xiangyang metropolitan area (Xiangyang Liuji Airport, Shiyan Wudangshan Airport, Shennongjia Hongping Airport) Airport), Yijing Jing Metropolitan Circle ( Yichang Three Gorges Airport , Jingzhou Shashi Airport, Enshi Xujiaping Airport ), passengers in each metropolitan area are connected by intercity railways, high-speed railways and other transportation methods, and can travel from any city in the province. Departure 1 hour to the airport city and 2 hours to the airport.
Tianhe Airport Navigation point doubled
Wuhan Tianhe Airport. (Photo courtesy of Hubei Airport Group )
Wuhan Tianhe Airport is the passenger core of the province's civil aviation and the main gateway to Hubei's opening to the outside world.
10 years ago, it was still in "overload" operation -
Tianhe Airport was completed and opened to navigation in April 1995, and it is the first 4F-class civil international airport in central my country. In 2012, Tianhe Airport had T1 and T2 terminals and a 3,400-meter runway. The designed annual passenger throughput was only 13 million, while the actual passenger flow that year was nearly 14 million..
In order to improve the throughput capacity as soon as possible, Tianhe Airport has been continuously renovated and expanded in the past 10 years-
In April 2016, the second runway of Tianhe Airport was put into use (3600 meters long); in August 2017, the T3 terminal building was officially put into use; 2021 In October of this year, the renovation of the T2 terminal of Tianhe Airport started; in June 2022, the construction of the third runway of Wuhan Tianhe Airport started.
After three phases of construction, Tianhe Airport currently has 3 terminals and 2 runways (3,400 meters and 3,600 meters in length), which can take off and land various large aircraft including Airbus A380, with an annual passenger throughput of 3,500 10,000 person-times, cargo and mail handling capacity of 440,000 tons. In 2021, the passenger flow of Wuhan Tianhe Airport will be nearly 19.8 million, a year-on-year increase of 54.6%, ranking 13th in the country. In the past 10 years, with the improvement of airport hardware facilities, there have been more and more navigation points-
In 2012, Wuhan Tianhe Airport had 76 regular navigation points, including 20 international navigation points, with an average of 359 flights taking off and landing every day. By 2019, before the epidemic, Wuhan Tianhe Airport had 152 domestic and foreign navigation points, including 58 international navigation points. Compared with 2012, it has doubled, and the daily average number of flights taking off and landing is 554, a year-on-year increase of 54%.
Since the epidemic, affected by the suspension of some international routes, Wuhan Tianhe Airport now has 144 navigation points, an increase of 89.5% compared to 2012. According to 10-year statistics, Wuhan has the closest contacts with domestic cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Kunming, Chengdu, Haikou, Sanya, Shenyang, Chongqing, and developed countries in Europe and the United States.
Two "air highways" widen Hubei Tianlu
Yichang Sanxia Airport. (Photo courtesy of the Three Gorges Airport)
is the same as the road on the ground. There is also a sky road in the sky, that is, the air route.
Since 2013, in order to meet the development needs of civil aviation and further improve the efficiency of flight operations, the state has planned the "10+3" major civil aviation channel, that is, the "air highway". In the past 10 years, the Hubei Air Traffic Management Branch of Civil Aviation has built two civil aviation "air highways" under the unified leadership of the Civil Aviation Administration of China - the Shanghai-Chengdu Corridor and the Beijing-Guangdong Corridor, which will be completed in September 2021 and May 2022. , forming a "cross"-shaped backbone interchange over Hubei, releasing airspace resources for the opening of Ezhou Huahu Airport and the expansion of Tianhe Airport. This also means that the construction of the two major corridors planned by the state through Hubei has been completed. The
channel has been completed, and the daily inbound and outbound flight capacity of Wuhan Tianhe Airport has reached 800, an increase of 30%. The flight capacity of other regional airports in the province has been improved to varying degrees. The
large channel not only improves the capacity of civil aviation, but also further optimizes the itinerary of each route -
shortens the flight distance from Wuhan to Beijing by 50 kilometers, and shortens the flight distance from Guangzhou by 30 kilometers. The flight from Xiangyang to Guangzhou will be shortened by about 90 kilometers compared to the previous flight.
In addition, in order to cooperate with the expansion and improvement of Wuhan Tianhe Airport, the Hubei Air Traffic Control Branch of Civil Aviation has continuously optimized its service guarantee capabilities for 10 years:
In August 2016, the new tower "Phoenix Crown" of Wuhan Tianhe Airport was put into use; in September 2021, the new Wuhan Terminal The control center has been put into use, which can meet the command needs of 3,000 aircrafts per day. Wuhan Terminal Control Center has become the largest and most extensive control and command center of in the central region of .
The pattern of "dual hubs and multiple branches" forms
Ezhou Huahu Airport. (Photo courtesy of Hubei International Logistics Airport Company)
In the past 10 years, among the four new airports, the most special one is Ezhou Huahu Airport.
Cheng Zhiqiang, professor of from Peking University Guanghua School of Management, commented that this is not a simple "+1", but a breakthrough of "0"—- The total investment of Ezhou Huahu Airport, which is built with the strength of the whole province, is 30.842 billion yuan. It is designed to meet the requirements of 1 million passenger throughput and 2.45 million tons of cargo and mail throughput in 2025. It is the first real cargo hub in Asia. Airport. As a major national productivity layout, Huahu Airport is responsible for representing China to participate in the global aviation logistics competition.
On September 17, 2020, Hubei Province and the Civil Aviation Administration of China held a working meeting in Wuhan. The two sides decided to jointly promote the establishment of Wuhan Tianhe Airport as an international gateway hub in the central region and Ezhou Huahu Airport into a first-class air cargo hub, forming Huahu Airport and Wuhan Tianhe Airport. The airport "passenger and cargo double hub" pattern.
"Passenger Hub" - Tianhe Airport will give full play to the advantages of passenger transport, strive to build a passenger transport hub, continue to increase access points, and provide rich choices for passengers in the province.
"cargo hub" - Ezhou Huahu Airport anchors the cargo hub, with SF as the core of the operation, to establish an aviation logistics network that "reaches the whole country in one day and the world in the next day".
"Multiple Branch Lines" - Civil airports in Xiangyang, Yichang, Shiyan, Shennongjia, Enshi, Jingzhou and other places have diversified development in terms of passenger and cargo, and have implemented coordinated development with Wuhan Tianhe Airport and Ezhou Huahu Airport to jointly expand Hubei Civil aviation development "big cake".
On April 2, 2022, the reform plan of Hubei Airport Group was released, which made it clear that Hubei Airport Group had jurisdiction over the construction and management of 7 civil airports in the province, and promoted the integrated development of civil airports in the province. The plan proposes that by 2025, Hubei Airport Group will develop into a domestic first-class aviation industry group with professional management, efficient operation, and the construction of "dual hubs and multiple branches" of civil airports in the province has achieved remarkable results, with passenger throughput exceeding 60 million passengers. The annual cargo and mail throughput has exceeded 3 million tons, the total assets have reached 60 billion yuan, and the operating income has reached 3.5 billion yuan. The construction of "dual hubs and multiple branches" has achieved remarkable results.
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