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Former airport of Qingdao, Shandong, China (1944–2021)
Qingdao Liuting International Airport (IATA: TAO, ICAO: ZSQD) was an airport that served the city of Qingdao in East China's Shandong province. It is located in Liuting Street, Chengyang District. Built in 1944, it is about 23 kilometres (14 mi) away from the center of Qingdao, and was a Class 4E civil international airport, one of the twelve major trunk airports in China.
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 12 August 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.
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Annual passenger traffic at TAO airport.
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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.
Long-distance coach
Qingdao Liuting International Airport Bus Terminal is a national level 3 highway passenger terminal, which was opened in September 2014 for operation. With a land area of 3,000 square meters, a total construction area of 800 square meters, a parking area of more than 1,000 square meters, and more than 10 departure spaces, the bus terminal is designed for a maximum daily capacity of up to 6,000 passengers.According to the airport's official website in 2017, the station has more than 20 routes, with more than 110 daily departures and an average daily capacity of more than 1,400 passengers.
Taxi
Qingdao Liuting International Airport Taxi Stand is located in the underground car park of Terminal T2.
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