Where to choose the site of Yili airfield
Yining Airport (IATA:YIN, ICAO:ZWYN), a 4D international airport in Yili Prefecture, Xinjiang, China, is located at No. 273 Airport Road, Jiefang Road, Yining City, Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, and is 3.5 kilometers away from the center of Yining City, and is a level international feeder airport and a class one national aviation port open to the outside world[1].In 1936 In 1936, Yining Airport Airport was opened to the public; it was renovated and expanded in 1984, 1991, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011 and 2018.On August 3, 2016, the State Council approved the opening of Yining Airport to the outside world[1].The official website of the China Ports Association in March 2020 showed that the terminal building of Yining Airport covers an area of 16,000 square meters with three boarding bridges. The area of civil aviation apron is 89,824 square meters, with 4 seats of class D and 10 seats of class C. The runway is 2,400 meters long and 45 meters wide; it can meet the annual passenger throughput of 1.5 million passengers, the cargo and mail throughput of 1,100 tons, and 15,306 flights of aircraft takeoff and landing flights [1-2].In 2021, Yining Airport***completed the throughput of 821,782 passengers, with a year-on-year growth of 18.9% and ranked 103rd in the country; postal throughput 4580.1 tons, an increase of 1.1%, ranked 80th in the country; aircraft movements 9003 flights, an increase of 11.8%, ranked 132nd in the country [12].