3. • It is the largest airport in South Korea
• The primary airport serving the Seoul National Capital Area
• One of the largest and busiest airports in the world.
4. • The airport has a golf course, spa, private sleeping rooms, ice skating
rink, a casino, indoor gardens and a Museum of Korean Culture.
• Its duty-free shopping mall has been rated the world's best for three
years in a row in 2012 by Business Traveller.
5. • For seven years in a row (2005–2012), it was rated the best airport
worldwide by Airports Council International
• Incheon International Airport is only one of three airports in the
world to receive a five-star rating by Skytrax, a world-renowned
aviation research organisation
6. . Located 48 km (30 mi) west of Seoul, the capital and largest city
of South Korea, Incheon International Airport is the main hub for Korean
Air, Asiana Airlines, Jeju Air and Polar Air Cargo. The airport serves as a
hub for international civilian air transportation and cargo traffic in East
Asia.
7. Control tower
• Located at the center of the
airport, the 22 story Control Tower
is 100.4 meters tall and is
illuminated 24 hours a day.
• On its highest floor is located a
parabolic antenna that is used by
the Airport Surface Detection
Equipment (ASDE) to detect all
airplanes and obstacles within
5 km of the tower.
• The upper floors are used by
ground & tower controllers while
the lower floors are mostly for
support operations.
• The control tower has a total area
of 179 sq.m. making it the 3rd
largest in the world as of 2001.
8.
9. • It is connected to the Main Terminal by two parallel 870-metre
(2,850 ft) long underground passageways equipped with IATs (Intra
Airport Transit).
• It has 30 gates and five lounges (Asiana Airlines/Star Alliance, Korean
Air/SkyTeam, Cathay Pacific/Oneworld, Japan Airlines/Oneworld,
China Eastern Airlines/SkyTeam.
10. • The main passenger terminal (measuring 594,000 sq.m.) is the
largest airport terminal in area in South Korea.
• The passenger terminal was designed by Curtis W. Fentress, FAIA,
RIBA of Fentress Architects.
• It is 1060m long, 149m wide, and 33m high. Its construction cost was
1.3816 trillion South Korean Won.
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12. • Good connectivity
• Airport buses are called
limousine buses and are
available outside the arrival
areas on the first floor.
13. • The Incheon International Airport Railroad airport express (or AREX,
and styled as A'REX) station is located in the Transport Centre
adjacent to the main terminal building and provides high-speed
services to Gimpo Airport and Seoul.
• Many of the stations along the AREX line provide connections to the
Incheon Subway and Seoul Metropolitan Subway.