Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport

History and Background:

Established in the 1930s, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is one of the three large hub airports in the Chinese mainland, holding a decisively important status in the layout of China’s civil airports. It ranked the second best airport in the appraisal of China’s 500 biggest enterprises in service industry in 1994. It was listed as one of the Top 500 State-owned Enterprises in 1994 and was selected by the CAAC as “Airport with Best Service” in 1998.

The new Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, with a total investment of 19.8 billion RMB, was formally put into operation on August 5, 2004.The new Airport, the first on the Chinese mainland designed and build in conformity to the hub airport mode, is now the largest, best equipped and most modernized civil air terminal in China. Serving 111 destinations at home and aboard with 152 domestic, international and regional air routes, the airport functions as a major international port of China as well as an air hub with worldwide connections. China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines are three home carriers of the airport.

Airport capability:

The first phase project of the terminal building boasts a total floor area of over 300,000 square meters, making the airport capable of handling 25 million person-times annually and 9,300 person-times during peaking hours. The first phase of the passenger plane apron has 66 parking spaces, of which 46 has loading bridge, 18 are remote ones and two are reserved parking space. Cargo plane apron now has five parking spaces. The airfield, which is up to the 4E standard, can accommodate all types of large civil airplanes currently in service. The east runway is 3,800 meters in length and 60 meters in width, whereas the west runway is 3,600 meters long and 45 meters wide. The number of runways will reach three according to the long-term plan, but it will be raised to five eventually, boosting airport’s annual handling capacity to 80 million person-times and 2.5 million tons of cargo, mail and luggage.

The new airport has an 83,200-square-meter warehouse for cargo storage, whose accessory facilities cover an area of 29,000 square meters. Aiming toward handling 1 million tons of cargo a year by 2010, it is a modern integrated warehouse with automatic and semi-automatic cargo handling systems.

An improved modern information system has been incorporated in the airport. A world-class luggage handling system and a five-stage security inspection system have been introduced. The intellectualized information systems have optimized the configuration of the airport resources, thus allowing an efficient real-time sharing of airport operation data.

Airport owner and developer:

Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Co., Ltd. (GBIAC), which take charge of the management of the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, was founded on 19th September 2000.The shareholders include Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Group Company (with 57.6% of the ownership), Air China, China Civil Aviation Airport Construction General Company, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Company Limited and Guangzhou Communications Investment Co., Ltd. The registered capital of GBIAC is RMB 600 million, with RMB 400 million public shares, the total shares has increased to RMB 1 billion.

GBIAC is the airport authority and performs as a professional Service Company. Consisting of 8 departments and 21 subsidiaries specialized in different areas, GBIAC provides ground handling and other extended services for airline companies, passengers and cargo owners.

Performance and Forecast:

Aircraft
　　In 2004, the number of air transport movements showed an increase of 29%, up to 182,780 flights. The international sector has a growth rate of 68.5% to 17834 flights.

Passenger
　　After the drop in 2003, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport saw passenger volume increase by 35.4%, to more than 20.3 million passengers. The international sector has a growth rate of 67.5% to 2,505,090 passengers.

C.M
　　In 2004, the volume of cargo throughput at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport displays an increase of 16.2% over the previous year, taking the total volume to 520 thousand tonnes. The international sector has a growth rate of 66.7% to 64,975.6 tonnes.

Domestic air routes:

At present, Baiyun International Airport has 119 routes of scheduled flights to nearly 100 domestic destinations. The airport benefits from the dense domestic route network and offers strong capability of transferring and connecting.

International air routes:


At present, routes operated at Baiyun Airport links Guangzhou with more than 30 international destinations, radiating cities in Asia, Africa, America, Europe and Oceania.