Expanded Key Airport in SW China Goes into Operation, XINHUA

From: Xinhua (China) | Date: October 26, 2001 | Copyright information


Xinhua (China)

10-26-2001

CHENGDU, October 26 (Xinhua) -- With its expansion project finished, Shuangliu
International Airport in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan
Province, was operational Friday.
The expansion project cost a total of 2.7 billion yuan (325 million US
dollars). The work included extension of the runway to 3,600 meters, making
it now capable of handling the world's largest passenger plane, the Boeing
747-400, and con...

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