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SINGAPORE CHANGI AIRPORT

Singapore Changi Airport, commonly known as Changi Airport is a major civilian
airport that serves Singapore and is one of the largest transportation hubs in Asia.
As one of the world’s busiest airports by international passenger and cargo traffic,
it is currently rated the World’s Best Airport by Styrax, the first Airport in the
world to do so for eight consecutive years. It has also been rated as the one of the
world’s cleanest airports and highly rated international transit airports.
The airport is located in Changi, at the eastern end of Singapore, approximately
20 km (12 mi) from Marina Bay (Singapore’s Downtown Core), on a 13-square-
kilometre (5.0 sq mi) site. The airport 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.
In 2019, Changi served 68.3 million passengers, making it the 18th busiest airport
in the world.

Changi Airport serves more than 100 airlines flying to 400 cities in around 100
countries and territories worldwide, as of 20 November 2020. About 7,400 flights
arrive or depart at Changi each week – about one every 80 seconds.
For the 2019 full-year figures published by the airport, the airport handled
68,300,000 passengers (a 4.0% increase over the previous year), the most in its
38-year history.[16] This made it the seventh busiest airport by international
passenger traffic in the world and the third busiest in Asia. In December 2019,
Changi Airport registered a total of 6.41 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 20 December 2019, with 226,692
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 2.01 million tonnes of cargo in 2019. The total number of commercial
aircraft movements decreased by 1.0% from the previous year to 382,000 in 2019.