Hardware facilities of Tianjin Binhai International Airport

Tianjin Airport's main business includes: aircraft landing and takeoff services, aviation ground services, advertising business, rental of housing sites, parking lot services, inter-provincial chartered passenger transportation, intra-city chartered passenger transportation and so on. Tianjin Airport has 2 runways, the first runway is 3600 meters, the second runway is 3200 meters, the flight area is class 4F, which can satisfy all kinds of large planes to take off and land fully loaded. The terminal building covers an area of 116,000 square meters, the cargo warehouse 89,000 square meters, with control of secondary radar, satellite communication terminals, airport data transmission network and other advanced navigation and communication equipment and perfect ground support facilities.

Terminal Building

The terminal building of Tianjin Airport covers an overall area of 116,000 square meters, with 4 check-in islands, 60 check-in counters, 6 self-service check-in equipments, and 17 security check channels. The peak hour can protect 2,200 passengers, and the comprehensive protection capacity meets the demand of annual passenger throughput of 10 million. With a total area of 720,000 square meters, the airport can park 84 aircrafts at the same time, and the completion of the second runway in April 2009 made Tianjin Airport the fourth airport in China to realize the independent operation of two runways. Both runways have reached the standard of Class 4E, with fire and emergency rescue level 9, advanced navigation and communication equipment such as advanced secondary radar, satellite communication terminals, airport data transmission network, and perfect ground support facilities. The hardware facilities of the field have already possessed the scale of a large-scale hub airport.

In order to ensure the continuous and rapid development of Tianjin Airport, the second phase of the airport expansion project is scheduled to start in 2009. The second phase of Tianjin airport terminal building construction scale of about 220,000 square meters, the annual passenger throughput capacity of 15 million. The project mainly includes: 220,000 square meters of terminal building, 250,000 square meters of station apron and taxiway, as well as fire fighting, lighting, etc. and ancillary facilities, the total project investment of about 5 billion yuan.

The future of Tianjin Airport will have three terminals, the construction of a third runway, to meet the annual passenger throughput of 40 million passengers, cargo and mail throughput of 4 million tons. Tianjin Airport will also introduce the Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway, city subway lines, through the Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei Expressway, so that it becomes a set of rail transit, road traffic and air transport as a whole, and seaport interaction of modern international airports, and strive to achieve the "northern international aviation logistics center and large-scale gateway hub airports," the vision of the goal.