7 Interesting Facts About Changi Airport

Introduction

Changi International Airport is the largest airport in Singapore. It is the main aviation center in southeast Asia. Ever since it has opened in 1981, the airport Changi has kept its signature in the aviation sector. It has created a benchmark in excellent customer service and has received over 380 awards since then. More than 100 global airlines fly in a week to about 200 cities in approximately 60 countries and across the world as well, which have made it the 7th busiest airport in the world.

The airport Changi is situated on a 13 square kilometers spot that is 17.2 kilometers northeast from the Changi commercial center. The airfield is controlled by the Changi Airport Group and is the home base of many airlines such as Singapore Airlines, Silk Air, Singapore Airlines Cargo as well as Tiger Airways, Jett8 Airlines Cargo and Jet star Asia Airways. This airstrip is a secondary hub for Qantas. Airport Changi has four terminals for the passengers and can handle more than 75 million commuters every year.

The prisoners of war from 1943 to 1944 constructed the International Airport Changi. At the time when the RAF occupied the airdrome in 1946, the north, south as well as the east and west strips positioned in the northeast end of Singapore was simply a runway covered by thinly grass and without any pavement. After that the Japanese jail inmate applied the steel plates with perforation on the east-west direction. In the same way, the runway in the north-south direction was also made stronger which served as the major airstrip for military airliner until 1949.

Airport Changi has numerous interesting features:

• It comprises land area of 1,300 hectares, of which 870 hectares is reclaimed from the ocean and roughly 28,000 people work in this airbase.
• The airport has a rooftop swimming pool in open air and also a Jacuzzi at Terminal 1.
• The airdrome can handle about 13,000 bags per hour.
• It is the multi-carrier A380 airport in the world having 164 A380 flights weekly that are connected to six cities like Sydney, Melbourne, London, Zurich, Paris and Hong Kong.
• The airport arrange for the 2-hour free city tour for the travelers if they want and they just have to register at the Singapore Visitors Center.
• The Airport Changi offers wide range of duty free products as well as luxurious items to buy.
• It also present the delicious local and international foods at the eateries present there at a reasonable rate.

 

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