The airport, formerly known as Shuanggui Temple Airport, was built in 1938. The muddy road surface is used for small biplane to take off and land. 1944 expansion, runway length 1400 meters. It is made by mixing and rolling lime and pebbles, and can be used by aircraft below 15 tons.
1956 65438+February 12. The General Staff of the Central Military Commission approved the use of Shuanggui Temple Airport by civil aviation, which was officially listed as a sequence of civil aviation airports and renamed as "Chengdu Shuangliu Airport". During the period of 1957, Chengdu civil aviation flights were transferred from Guanghan Airport to Shuangliu Airport, and routes from Chengdu to Beijing, Taiyuan, Xi, Chongqing, Kunming, Guiyang and Nanchong were opened.
The airport was expanded from 1959 to 1960 for the first time. The runway is 2200m long and can be used for the take-off and landing of aircraft with gross weight18t or less. The newly-built terminal building covers an area of 8500m2, with thin-shell multi-arch structure and asymmetrical connection with the high-rise command and dispatch building, which is well received by all parties. 1967, the runway is extended from 2200m to 2600m, which can only be used by aircraft below100t.
1983 and 199 1 expanded the airport twice, which increased the terminal area to 17400 square meters, and the oil storage and supply facilities exceeded 10000 tons. The facilities of air traffic control, communication and navigation, weather forecast and transportation services were more perfect than those of other airports in southwest China.
From 1994 to 200 1, the airport has expanded the flight area and terminal area on a large scale, with a total investment of 2.8 billion RMB, making the grade index of the flight area reach 4E and the runway extend to 3600 meters. It can take off and land all kinds of aircraft in the world, including Boeing 747-400, and is equipped with a two-stage precision approach lighting system. The newly-built terminal building is 82,000 square meters, designed with a parallel three-finger corridor layout, and the inbound and outbound passengers are separated from domestic and foreign passengers, with 3,500 passengers during peak hours; The new parking lot is 74,000 square meters and the station lane is 44,000 square meters.
In 2003, the airport invested 380 million yuan to start the construction of a new 39,000-square-meter international terminal, which was completed and put into use on September 28, 2004. A modern airport with the largest scale, perfect facilities and complete functions in the western region will be presented to the world.
On June 5438+February 3, 20081,the construction of the second runway and terminal 2 of Shuangliu International Airport officially started.
On June 20, 2009, the second runway project of Shuangliu International Airport passed the industry acceptance. The runway is 3,600 meters long, which can meet the requirements of A380 full-load take-off and landing.
On July 6, 20 12, the project of Terminal 2 of Shuangliu International Airport passed the industry acceptance. Terminal 2 covers an area of 350,000 square meters, and the total area of Terminal 1 reaches 500,000 square meters, and the total number of parking spaces reaches 146 74 boarding bridges: there is no need to take a car ferry to get on and off the machine.
According to the Airport Group, on July 28th, 20 12, the airport arranged flights 124, accounting for about 20% of the total number of flights, including 78 flights of China Eastern Airlines, 6 flights of Shanghai Airlines, 6 flights of China United Airlines, 8 flights of Tibet Airlines, 22 flights of Shenzhen Airlines and 4 flights of Shandong Airlines. The trial operation of T2 relieved the pressure of T 1 to some extent, especially the number of boarding bridges in the two terminals reached 74, which made the airport more flexible in the layout and use of boarding bridges. According to the statistics of yesterday 19: 00, the proportion of boarding bridges used by inbound and outbound flights at T2 yesterday reached 100%, which greatly improved the boarding efficiency of passengers and reduced the number of passengers. Terminal 2 adopts corridor centralized layout, which consists of main building, corridor and corridor. There are 6 check-in islands, 120 manual check-in counters, 36 self-service check-in counters, 35 security check-in passages, 170 elevators, escalators and pedestrian walkways in the building, and an advanced baggage handling system is installed with automatic baggage sorting function. T2 inbound and outbound passengers are also diverted, and inbound and outbound passengers will not cross. The building is equipped with 18 sets of advanced management systems, such as building automation, departure and security inspection, which further improves the level of modernization and intelligence; There are bus stops, long-distance passenger stations, taxis, subways and intercity express trains in the square in front of the station, and various modes of transportation between aviation and the ground are expected to achieve seamless connection.
20 14, 14 On February 26th, Chengdu Airport Dujiangyan Lounge was officially put into use in Dujiangyan. This is the first terminal of Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, and it is also the first terminal located in the national 5A-level scenic spot. After the terminal is put into use, domestic and foreign passengers flying from Dujiangyan to Chengdu Airport can check in at the scenic spot and then take the through train to Chengdu Airport Terminal. Upon arrival at the airport, passengers can pass the security check through the special "security check channel in the city lounge". In addition, passengers can also enjoy direct ticket purchase, flight dynamic inquiry, free WIFI, passenger service consultation, travel product reservation and other related services in the waiting room. At the same time, in order to facilitate passengers arriving at Chengdu Airport to go to Dujiangyan, Chengdu Airport, together with Qingchengshan Dujiangyan Administration and Sichuan Pastoral Wenjing Tourism Service Co., Ltd., launched a point-to-point through train from the airport to the scenic spot. /kloc-it runs every two hours from 0/0 to 20: 00. In the future, with the increase of flights and passengers, the frequency of departure will gradually increase.
In 2 1 century, Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport will greatly strengthen the function and position of the hub airport in southwest China, welcome visitors from all directions with more beautiful environment, more perfect and thoughtful service and more modern facilities, and become an important air gateway to the world in western China.
It is the responsibility of the airport to provide the best service to the society. It is the pursuit of enterprises to satisfy airlines, passengers, shippers and all walks of life. Building the best airport and providing quality service is the aim of the group company. Southwest Airport Group Corporation will take aviation safety as the premise, industrial development as the main line and deepening reform as the driving force to realize intensive management, specialized management and industrialized development. Market-oriented, capital-linked, service-tree brand, improve the international, domestic and provincial route networks, build an airport system with reasonable layout of important gateway hubs, trunk (branch) airports and small tourist airports facing Southeast Asia and South Asia, realize the leap-forward development of southwest airport industry from a large aviation province to a strong aviation province, serve the southwest, face the whole country and go global, and make greater contributions to the development of civil aviation.