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Incheon International Airport
Incheon International Airport

Incheon International Airport is the largest international airport in South Korea where all international flights leave and arrive every day. Gimpo Airport located near city Seoul used to be the international airport for Korea. However as the population grew and needs for places to stay increased in the area, Gimpo Airport no longer could expand its capacity to meet the growing demands for international flights. To solve the problem, a construction plan for a new 24 hour airport was started in 1992. Incheon International Airport is in Incheon City Jung-gu Unseo-dong (37°27′5″N, 126°26′4″E). Incheon International Airport Railroad (A'REX) and Incheon International Airport Highway were built to join the airport to Seoul. The airport is operated by Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) and it is owned by the government of South Korea.

History

Incheon International Airport opened on March 29th, 2001. It was built on reclaimed land between Yongjongdo and Youngyudo. First stage of building started in 1992 and it took eight years and four months to finish. It cost 7.8 trillion Won. This allowed Incheon International Airport to have up to 170,000 flights, 27,000,000 passengers and 1,700,000 tons of cargo per year. Stage Two began in 2002 and was completed on June 20th 2008. The airport now has the capacity of holding 410,000 flights, 44,000,000 passengers, and 4,500,000 tons of cargo per year. When the airport is finished in 2020, it will have two passenger terminals, four satellite concourses, 128 gates, and four parallel runways. It will be able to have up to 100 million passengers, and 7 million tons of cargo per year.

Facilities

Incheon International Airport has passenger facilities (main passenger terminal, passenger concourse A), cargo terminal complex (A, B, C terminal), and operation facilities (control tower, runways, and meteorological facilities).

Operating Airlines

* Main Terminal

Airline Destinations Contact Information Check-in Counter
Asiana Airlines Almaty, Asahikawa, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Busan, Cebu, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu, Chicago-O'Hare, Daegu, Dalian, Delhi, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Guangzhou, Guilin, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Harbin, Hiroshima, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jeju, Khabarovsk, Kota Kinabalu, Kumamoto, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Manila-Aquino, Manila-Clark, Matsuyama, Miyazaki, Nagoya-Centrair, Nanchang, Nanjing, New York-JFK, Okinawa/Naha, Osaka-Kansai, Palau, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Qingdao, Saipan, San Francisco, Seattle/Tacoma, Sendai, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenzhen, Shizuoka, Siem Reap [seasonal], Singapore, Sydney, Taipei-Taoyuan, Takamatsu, Tashkent, Tianjin, Tokyo-Narita, Toyama, Weihai, Xi'an, Yanji, Yantai, Yonago, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 82-744-2132~3 L,M
Jejuair Kitakyūshū, Osaka-Kansai
Korean Air Akita, Amsterdam, Aomori, Atlanta, Auckland, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Brisbane, Busan, Cairo, Cebu, Changsha, Chiang Mai, Chicago-O'Hare, Daegu, Dalian, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denpasar/Bali, Dubai, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Guam, Guangzhou, Hakodate, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Jinan, Kagoshima, Kathmandu, Komatsu, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur-Sepang, Kunming, Las Vegas, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manila, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Nadi, Nagasaki, Nagoya-Centrair, New York-JFK, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Prague, Qingdao, Rome-Fiumicino, St. Petersburg [seasonal], San Francisco, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Sapporo-Chitose, Seattle/Tacoma, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Shizuoka, Siem Reap, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei-Taoyuan, Tashkent, Tel Aviv, Tianjin, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Ulan Bator, Ürümqi [seasonal], Vancouver, Vienna, Vladivostok, Washington-Dulles, Weihai, Wuhan, Xi'an, Xiamen, Yanji, Yantai, Zhengzhou, Zürich 82-32-742-7654 A,B,C,D

* Concourse A & Cargo Terminal

Airline Destinations Contact Information Check-in Counter
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo 82-32-744-8672 D
Air Astana Almaty 82-32-743-2620 D
Aircalin Nouméa 82-32-743-5396 E
Air Canada Toronto-Pearson [seasonal], Vancouver 82-32-744-0898~9 J
Air China Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Tianjin, Yanji 82-32-744-3255~8 H
Air Hong Kong 82-32-744-6766
Air India 82-32-743-5439 J
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 82-32-744-4900~1 E
Air Macau Macau 82-32-743-5405~06 H
Alas Air 82-32-743-5220,3
All Nippon Airways Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita 82-32-744-3200 J,K
Cargolux Airlines Int. SA 82-32-744-3711
Cathay Pacific Hong Kong, Taipei-Taoyuan 82-32-744-6777 H
Cebu Pacific Cebu, Manila 82-32-743-5704~5 G
China Airlines Taipei-Taoyuan 82-32-743-1513~4 D
China Cargo airlines 82-32-744-3793
China Eastern Airlines Beijing-Capital, Kunming, Nanjing, Qingdao, Sanya, Shanghai-Pudong, Yancheng, Yantai 82-32-744-3780/6 F
China Hainan Airlines 82-2-779-0600 D
China Postal Airlines
China Southern Airlines Beijing-Capital, Changchun, Changsha, Dalian, Guangzhou, Harbin, Mudanjiang, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenyang, Yanji 82-32-744-3270 E
Dalavia Far East Airways 82-32-743-2620 H
Delta Air Lines Atlanta 82-32-744-3772~3 E
Emirates Airline Dubai 82-32-743-8101 H
EVA Air Taipei-Taoyuan 82-2-756-0015 J
Federal Express 82-32-744-6100
Finnair Helsinki J
Garuda Indonesia Denpasar/Bali 82-32-744-1990 D
GreatWall Airlines 82-32-743-0775
Hainan Airlines Tianjin [begins 9 July]
Hong Kong Express Airways 82-2-755-8088 D
Iran Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tokyo-Narita 82-32-744-3728 K
Jade Cargo International 82-32-743-2361
Japan Airlines Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita 82-32-744-3601~3 G
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Amsterdam 82-32-744-6700~1 E
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich, Shenyang 82-32-744-3400 J
Malaysia Airlines Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur 82-32-744-3501 D
Mandarin Airlines Kaohsiung
MIAT Mongolian Airlines Ulan Bator 82-32-744-6800 E
Nippon Cargo Airlines 82-32-744-3224~5
Northwest Airlines Tokyo-Narita 82-2-732-1700 E
Orient Thai Airlines 82-32-743-1014 K
Philippine Airlines Manila 82-32-744-3720~3 J
PMT Air 82-32-743-7473 H
Polar Air Cargo 82-32-744-4215
Qatar Airways Doha 82-32-744-3370~72 J
S7 Airlines 82-2-3455-1234,5 H,K
SAT Airlines Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 82-32-741-6035 H
Shandong Airlines Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai 82-2-775-2691 H,K
Shanghai Airlines Shanghai-Pudong 82-2-774-8800 H
Shenzhen Airlines Shenzhen 82-2-766-9933 E
Singapore Airlines San Francisco, Singapore 82-32-744-6500~2 K
SkyStar Airways Co.,Ltd 82-32-743-5460 J,K
Southern Air .Inc. 82-2-322-7038
Thai Airways International Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Hong Kong, Taipei-Taoyuan 82-32-744-3571 J
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk 82-32-744-3737 G
UNI Airways Corp 82-32-743-5669 J
United Airlines San Francisco, Tokyo-Narita 82-32-744-6666 K
UPS 82-2-2022-1000
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent 82-2-734-6075~6 H,J
Vietnam Airlines Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City 82-32-744-6565~6 D
Vladivostok Air Khabarovsk, Vladivostok 82-2-733-2920~3 E
Xiamen Airlines Xiamen 82-2-3455-1662~6 K

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