Hefei Expat - China

Living Here => Travel => Topic started by: gregmcd101 on February 18, 2013, 03:54:50 am

Title: New airport
Post by: gregmcd101 on February 18, 2013, 03:54:50 am

Does anyone know if / when it is opening?

Title: Re: New airport
Post by: Aussie Mike on February 18, 2013, 05:55:12 am

Original plan was 2014. I've heard others but I still feel 2014 is about right.

Title: Re: New airport
Post by: rgeczi on February 18, 2013, 09:22:38 am

Phase 1 will be complete Feb. 25. 2013, but I am not sure if that means it will be open to the general public.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1558880

Title: Re: New airport
Post by: Aussie Mike on February 20, 2013, 05:52:55 am

Quote from: rgeczi on February 18, 2013, 09:22:38 am

Phase 1 will be complete Feb. 25. 2013, but I am not sure if that means it will be open to the general public.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1558880

Awesome design!

(http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx216/davidwei01/aec379310a55b319928b353f43a98226cffc170d.jpg)

And that's just stage 1!

This is stage 3!
Stage 1 is the small bit on the very end.  ;D

(http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx216/davidwei01/d4239b35d789a63e90ef39a0.jpg)

Title: Re: New airport
Post by: martin on February 27, 2013, 06:23:13 am

I recently asked a Taxi driver, and from what I understood, the airport will open sometime between march and may? It was not very clear to me.

Title: Re: New airport
Post by: Aussie Mike on February 27, 2013, 09:31:51 am

The International airport will be the end of the subway which is not a subway line.
Apparently they are building a multi-way, some underground, some on the ground and some above ground.

The Domestic airport will be a stop on one of the other lines.

Title: Re: New airport
Post by: Aussie Mike on March 05, 2013, 09:44:02 am

Trial landing of an AirBus completed (http://220.178.124.16/english/view_news.jsp?id=65821)