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Singapore Airport is popularly known as Singapore Changi Airport, which is the major civilian airport in the country of Singapore. It is also the major air travel hub hosting services to Southeast Asia. As of late, per the Skytrax 2015 ratings, Singapore Airport was selected as the World's Best Airport of the year. It is also one among the busiest airports in the world in terms of passenger and cargo handling.
The airport is ideally located at Changi, which is the eastern end of the country of Singapore. The airport is nearly 17.2 km from the Marina Bay at downtown Singapore. The total area covered by Singapore Airport is 13 square kilometers and has all modern world-class facilities available here. The airport is operated by the Changi Airport Group and functions as the primary base for Singapore Airlines, SilkAir, Singapore Airlines Cargo, Tigerair, Scoot, and Jetstar Asia.
Singapore Airport Features
Lately, Singapore Airport hosts nearly 100 airliners from all parts of the world. There are flights to more than 300 cities from here and the coverage of flights from Singapore Airport is there to 80 countries. More than about 6600 flights are operated from Singapore Airport every week, which is nearly one is every 90 seconds. More than about 54.1 million passengers are handled by the airport back in 2014. Visit cleartrip.com to know more about Singapore Airport.
Changi Airport consists of three passenger terminals and the annual capacity of passenger handling is about 66 million. The oldest terminal in Singapore Changi Airport is Terminal #1 was opened in year 1981. Terminal #2 became functional in 1990 and the Terminal #3 was inaugurated in 2008. There is also Budget Terminal started operating in 2006,w which was later closed by September of 2012.