Since Chengdu Tianfu International Airport was put into use, because the terminal building is too big, the news that he almost broke his leg by plane has been complained about by major media from time to time, and has been ridiculed by bloggers. Some netizens even think that the terminal of Tianfu International Airport is the largest terminal in China.
Actually, such an impression is wrong. Even Shanghai's Pudong International Airport and Beijing's Daxing International Airport are not the airports with the largest terminal area in the mainland. Regardless of the terminal area, passenger throughput, or flight takeoffs and landings, Guangzhou Baiyun Airport is the largest airport in China.
According to investigation, the ranking of the size of the terminal building of the civil aviation airport is as follows:
Some netizens may wonder why the airports in Beijing and Shanghai did not make it to the top spot, and what determines the size of the airport terminals.
In fact, all kinds of public buildings and facilities have the advantage of being latecomer, under the same circumstances, the later will always be bigger and better than the first to build, such as the capital airport, although it is one of the most important airports in China, but its construction time is earlier, and it is located in the urban area of Beijing, limited by the location of the environment and land, and the surrounding traffic congestion, can not be easily expanded, can only build a second airport to disperse the flow of passengers, Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and Chengdu Shuangliu Airport is the same.
As one of the four first-tier cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Guangzhou has only Baiyun Airport and is located in Huadu, with a suitable land and environment for construction, of course, it tops the list with a terminal area of 1.561 million square meters and an annual passenger throughput of up to 63.234 million.
In 2023, China will have 7,565 direct domestic passenger flight routes, 7.513 million take-off and landing flights from 41 10-million-level airports, a total of 4.922 million civil aviation passenger flights, and 620 million passenger traffic.
Although the development of high-speed rail has brought a lot of pressure to the development of civil aviation, moderate competition is a good thing for the people. In order to develop, various civil aviation and airports have also made a series of countermeasures.
For example, customers who care about comfort and service quality will strengthen their services and optimize the passenger experience, and those who care about cost-effectiveness will reduce costs and increase efficiency in various ways to attract passengers' choices at lower prices.
Second, they optimize flight schedules and improve flight efficiency to reduce flight time and improve flight competitiveness. At the same time, it actively explores international routes to attract more long-distance passengers.
In addition, civil aviation and airports have also developed and strengthened intermodal transportation with high-speed rail, and cooperated with some hotels and hotels to provide seamless connection of multi-trip, transfer and multimodal transportation to meet the various travel needs of passengers.
Economic growth, tourism development and international trade have led to an increasing demand for transportation, and in order to promote the development of cities and attract external investment, various policy support and objective demand have led to the continuous growth of the number and scale of airports in mainland China.