CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- On the morning of December 17, Cao Haixia, who took the flight OQ2317 of Chongqing Airlines from Chongqing to Guangzhou, got a mysterious gift before boarding – fortunately becoming the 40000000th passenger of Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in 2018. The air ticket became her gift coupon, and the heads of Chongqing Airport Group and Chongqing Airlines presented her with the commemorative medal, free ticket and other souvenirs. 

Tan Pingchuan, Chairman of Chongqing Airport Group, presented the commemorative medal to the lucky passenger.

The moment is also very important for Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, indicating that the annual passenger throughput of Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport has successfully exceeded 40 million person-time. This is also another historical leap for Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport after it exceeded 10 million person-time in 2007, 20 million person-time in 2012 and 30 million person-time in 2015.

On December 17, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport’s annual passenger throughput exceeded 40 million person-time.

The attainment of the goal of 40 million person-time cannot be separated from the efforts of all links. As an important window for Chongqing's opening to the outside world, Chongqing Airport has made great efforts to promote the construction of “hub airport, smart airport and beautiful airport” in recent years. Have you noticed the dramatic change from these efforts?

The throughput in this year willl exceed 41 million person-time and the airport is expected to rank among the top 50 airports in the world

According to the person in charge of Chongqing Airport Group, the annual passenger throughput of Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport will exceed 41 million person-time from the whole year, and it is expected to rank among the top 50 airports in the world.

About the future development, Chongqing Airport Group puts forward to build the hub airport, smart airport and beautiful airport, and accelerate the construction of T3B terminal and the fourth runway of Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, to meet the annual passenger throughput of 80 million person-time. Furthermore, it will accelerate the international and regional route network layout to achieve the construction of 100 international and regional routes as soon as possible.

11 international routes are opened in one year. The total number of international and regional routes will exceed 80

The rapid growth of the passenger flow must be guaranteed by the increasingly convenient routes. Statistics show that Chongqing Airport has opened 297 domestic and international routes and 186 destinations up to now, including 218 domestic routes and 127 destinations. These cities cover the national provincial capitals and major tourist cities including cities along the Yangtze River Economic Belt. It has also opened more than 20 plateaus and “High-Plateau” destinations like Lhasa, Nyingchi, Jiuzhai, Lijiang, Kangding, Dali, Shangri-La, and nearly 60 flights fly to the plateau each day.

In terms of international routes, Chongqing Airport has opened 79 international and regional routes, including 65 passenger routes and 14 cargo routes, and covering 59 cities in 24 countries of 5 continents. In the passenger route, there are 19 intercontinental routes with the destinations covering London, Rome, New York, Melbourne, Helsinki, Moscow, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sydney, Auckland, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Seattle, etc., 14 of which have the direct flight to Chongqing. On December 19, Chongqing will open the air route to Paris, France, which will become the 11th international route opened in Chongqing this year. At this point, the number of international and regional routes opened by Chongqing Airport will reach 80.

Passengers guarantee will be intelligentized in the whole process. Smart airport construction enters the 2.0 era

The ubiquity of smart elements is a notable characteristic of Chongqing Airport. There are many commendable black technologies in Chongqing Airport, such as security check by face swiping, customs clearance by face swiping, reverse car search system, baggage guarantee visualization, indoor navigation, human-bag corresponding system, and non-inductive payment.

According to Chongqing Airport, in addition to various black technologies, they also have provided smart mobile services with 16 mobile service functions such as online check-in, flight schedule, smart parking and airport navigation, and set up the “temporary identity certification self-service system” at T2 and T3, so that passengers can print the temporary flight certificate by themselves. (Translated by Bai Fengling, Fathom Language Limited)