Singapore Changi Airport 6.41

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75 Airport Boulevard
Singapore, 819658
Singapore

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Singapore Changi Airport, or simply Changi Airport, is the primary civilian airport for Singapore, and one of the largest transportation hubs in Southeast Asia. It is currently rated the World's Best Airport by Skytrax, for the fifth consecutive year (Skytrax's World's Best Airport 2013 – 2017) and is one of the world's busiest airports by international passenger and cargo traffic. The airport is located in Changi, at the eastern end of Singapore, approximately 17.2km northeast from Marina Bay (Singapore's Downtown Core), on a 13km2 site. It is operated by Changi Airport Group and it is the home base of Singapore Airlines, Singapore Airlines Cargo, SilkAir, Scoot, Jetstar Asia Airways and BOC Aviation.Overview of Changi AirportChangi Airport serves more than 100 airlines flying to 380 cities in around 90 countries and territories worldwide. Each week, about 7,000 flights land or depart from Changi, or, about one every 90 seconds.For the 2016 full year figures published by the airport, the airport handled 58,698,039 passengers (a 5.9% increase over the previous year), the most in its 35 year history. This made it the sixth busiest airport by international passenger traffic in the world and the second busiest in Asia. In December 2016, Changi Airport registered a total of 5.68 million passenger movements, the highest the airport has ever achieved in a month since it opened in 1981. Its daily traffic movement record was also broken on 23 December 2016, with more than 202,000 passengers passing through during that day. In addition to being an important passenger hub, the airport is also one of the busiest cargo airports in the world, handling 1.97 million tonnes of cargo in 2016. The total number of commercial aircraft movements increased by 4.1% from the previous year to 360,490 in 2016. In April 2017, the airport handled more than a billion passengers for the first time.