Qingdao Liuting International Airport
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Qingdao Liuting International Airport
青岛流亭国际机场
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| Airport type | Defunct | ||||||||||
| Operator | Qingdao International Airport Group Co., Ltd. | ||||||||||
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| Location | Chengyang District, Qingdao, Shandong, China | ||||||||||
| Opened | 5 August 1982 | ||||||||||
| Closed | 12 August 2021 | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 10 m / 33 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°15′58″N 120°22′28″E | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 青岛流亭国际机场 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 青島流亭國際機場 | ||||||||
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Qingdao Liuting International Airport (IATA: TAO, ICAO: ZSQD) was an airport that served the city of Qingdao in Shandong Province, China. It was about 31 km (19 mi) from the city center and served as a hub for Shandong Airlines, Beijing Capital Airlines and Qingdao Airlines as well as a focus city for China Eastern Airlines. A replacement airport, Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport, opened on 12 August 2021.
History
From 2004 to 2006, the airport underwent an expansion of its terminal as well as adding more parking spaces which was part of its initial 2010 goal to expand Liuting Airport to handle 5.2 million passengers annually or 2400 passengers and almost 120,000 tons of cargo hourly. The runway was also extended to its current length. Its IATA code is used for its former romanized name Tsingtao.
In 2018, Qingdao Liuting was the 15th busiest airport in China with 24.53 million passengers. Due to its lack of room to expand as it is being surrounded by the city, in December 2013, the Chinese government approved the construction of Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport. All flights were transferred to Jiaodong Airport when it opened on August 12, 2021.
Qingdao did not have a non-stop intercontinental air link until 29 March 2016, when Lufthansa's existing service to Frankfurt, Germany via Shenyang was upgraded to a non-stop flight to Frankfurt. Later in the year, Beijing Capital Airlines introduced service to Melbourne, Australia and Vancouver, Canada in early 2017.
Statistics
Access
The airport is about 31 kilometres (19 mi) north of the city, and connected by taxis, three airport shuttle bus lines (701路, 702路, 703路), two tourism bus lines (Huangdao Special Line, Jiaonan Special Line), and intercity buses to neighboring cities.
Metro
Liuting station (Qingdao Metro Line 1), opened in December 2020.