Seoul Incheon International Airport


IATA: ICN ICAO: RKS WMO: 47113
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Incheon International Airport Corporation
Operator	Incheon International Airport Corporation
Serves	Seoul Capital Area
Location	Jung District, Incheon, South Korea
Hub for	Air BusanAir IncheonAir SeoulAsiana AirlinesEastar JetFedEx ExpressJeju AirJin AirKorean AirPolar Air CargoT’way Air
Focus city for	China Eastern AirlinesChina Southern AirlinesThai Airways
Elevation AMSL	7 m / 23 ft
Coordinates	37°27′48″N 126°26′24″ECoordinates: 37°27′48″N 126°26′24″E
Website	www.airport.kr

Incheon International Airport (IIA) (Korean: 인천국제공항) (IATA: ICN, ICAO: RKSI) (sometimes referred to as Seoul–Incheon International Airport) is the largest airport in South Korea, the primary airport serving the Seoul Capital Area, and one of the largest and busiest airports in the world. Since 2005, it has been rated the best airport worldwide by Airports Council International every year. It is also rated as the world’s cleanest airport and the world’s best international transit airport by Skytrax.

The airport has a golf course, spa, private sleeping rooms, an ice skating rink, a casino, indoor gardens, video game center and a Museum of Korean Culture. Airport authorities claim that average departure and arrival takes 19 minutes and 12 minutes, respectively, as compared to worldwide average of 60 minutes and 45 minutes, respectively, ranking it among the fastest airports in the world for customs processing. Its duty-free shopping mall has been rated the world’s best for three years in a row in 2013 by Business Traveller. Incheon International Airport also claims that it has only a 0.0001% baggage mishandling rate.

The airport opened for business on 29 March 2001 to replace the older Gimpo International Airport, which now serves mostly domestic destinations and shuttle flights to several East Asian metropolitan areas including Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing, Shanghai, and Taipei.

Incheon International Airport is located west of Incheon’s city center, on an artificially created piece of land between Yeongjong and Yongyu Islands. The two islands were originally separated by shallow sea. That area between the two islands was reclaimed for the construction project, effectively connecting the once separate Yeongjong and Yongyu islands. The reclaimed area as well as the two islands are all part of Jung-gu, an administrative district of Incheon.

The airport holds a record of being ranked the Best Airport Worldwide for 11 consecutive years by the Airports Council International (ACI)’s Airport Service Quality Award from 2005 to 2016, and has also been rated the world’s best among airports of its size (25–40 million passengers) and region (Asia-Pacific) since 2012 due to the institution’s decision to discontinue the Best Airport Worldwide category.

Incheon International Airport’s terminal has 111 boarding gates altogether, with 44 in Terminal 1, 30 in Concourse A (connected to terminal 1), and 37 in Terminal 2.

The airport was constructed to share the demand for air transport in the 21st century and to serve as a hub airport in Northeast Asia.

Incheon International Airport was named the winner of World’s Best Transit Airport in 2020. Terminal 2 at Incheon International Airport was named World’s Best Airport Terminal in 2020.

Incheon Airport from the air, 2003
Source: ja:file:Incheon International Airport flom Airplane.JPG

Terminals

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 (measuring 496,000 square meters) is the largest airport terminal in area in South Korea. Terminal 1 was designed by Curtis W. Fentress, FAIA, RIBA of Fentress Architects. It is 1,060 metres (3,480 ft) long, 149 metres (489 ft) wide, and 33 metres (108 ft) high. Its construction cost was 1.3816 trillion South Korean Won. The terminal has 44 boarding ports (all of which can accommodate the Airbus A380), 50 customs inspection ports, 2 biological quarantine counters, 6 stationary and 14 portable passenger quarantine counters, 120 arrival passport inspection counters, 8 arrival security ports, 28 departure security ports, 252 check in counters, and 120 departure passport inspection counters. In 2015, an automatic check-in counter lane was introduced, where people traveling via Korean Air, Asiana Airlines and China Southern Airlines can use. Instead of having airport staff at the counter, there is a machine where travelers input their flight information, scan their passports, receive their flight tickets and lastly, load the luggage onto the conveyor. This system was planned to be introduced in Terminal 2, but in May 2015 Incheon Airport used one of the counter islands for the unmanned luggage handling system.

Concourse

The passenger concourse was completed at the end of May 2008. It is connected to Terminal 1 by two parallel 870-metre-long (2,850 ft) underground passageways equipped with IATs (Intra Airport Transit). It has 30 gates and six lounges (Asiana Airlines/Star Alliance, Singapore Airlines/Star Alliance, Japan Airlines/Oneworld, Korean Air/SkyTeam, and China Eastern Airlines/SkyTeam).

Terminal 2

A new passenger terminal opened on 18 January 2018, and Korean Air, KLM, Delta Air Lines, and Air France flights were relocated from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2. Other SkyTeam members such as Aeromexico, Alitalia, China Airlines, Garuda Indonesia, XiamenAir, Czech Airlines and Aeroflot started serving the Terminal 2 on 28 October 2018. Rest of the SkyTeam members, such as Vietnam Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines, will be relocated to Terminal 2 after the Phase 4 construction work is complete.

Future expansion plans for Incheon International Airport
Source: Chugun

Airlines and destinations

Passenger


Aeroflot	Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Aeroméxico	Mexico City
AirAsia X	Kuala Lumpur–International
Air Astana	Almaty, Nur-Sultan
Air Busan	Cebu, Chengdu, Kaohsiung, Nagoya–Centrair, Ningbo, Osaka–Kansai, Shenzhen, Tokyo–Narita
Air Canada	Toronto–Pearson, Vancouver
Air China	Beijing–Capital, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Wenzhou, Yanji
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air India	Delhi
Air Macau	Macau
Air New Zealand	Auckland
Air Seoul	Da Nang, Fukuoka, Guam, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Kalibo, Kota Kinabalu, Kumamoto, Linyi, Nha Trang, Osaka–Kansai, Sapporo–Chitose, Siem Reap, Takamatsu, Tokyo–Narita, Zhangjiajie
American Airlines	Dallas/Fort Worth
Asiana Airlines	Almaty, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing–Capital, Busan, Cebu, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Clark, Dalian, Da Nang, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Guangzhou, Guilin, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Harbin, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Istanbul, Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta, Kaohsiung, Koror, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Manila, Miyazaki, Nagoya–Centrair, Naha, Nanjing, New York–JFK, Nha Trang, Osaka–Kansai, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Phnom Penh, Phu Quoc,] Phuket, Qingdao, Rome–Fiumicino, Saipan, San Francisco, Sapporo–Chitose, Seattle/Tacoma, Sendai, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenzhen, Sydney, Taichung, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tashkent, Tianjin, Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita, Ulaanbaatar, Venice, Weihai, Xi’an, Yancheng, Yanji, Yantai
Aurora	Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Bamboo Airways	Da Nang, Hanoi (begins 1 July 2020),[29] Nha Trang
British Airways	London–Heathrow
Cathay Pacific	Hong Kong, Taipei–Taoyuan
Cebu Pacific	Cebu, Kalibo, Manila
China Airlines	Kaohsiung, Taipei–Taoyuan
China Eastern Airlines	Changsha, Jinan, Kunming, Nanjing, Qingdao, Shanghai–Pudong, Weihai, Yancheng, Yanji, Yantai
China Southern Airlines	Beijing–Capital, Changsha, Changchun, Dalian, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Harbin, Mudanjiang, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Yanji, Zhengzhou
Delta Air Lines	Atlanta, Detroit, Manila (begins 1 June 2020), Minneapolis/St. Paul, Seattle/Tacoma
Eastar Jet	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Da Nang, Fukuoka, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Hualien, Ibaraki, Kagoshima, Kaohsiung, Kota Kinabalu, Macau, Miyazaki, Naha, Nha Trang, Osaka–Kansai, Puerto Princesa, Saipan, Shanghai–Pudong, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tokyo–Narita, Zhengzhou Seasonal: Phu Quoc, Sapporo–Chitose, Vladivostok, Yantai
Emirates	Dubai–International
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa, Tokyo–Narita
Etihad Airways	Abu Dhabi
EVA Air	Kaohsiung, Taichung, Taipei–Taoyuan
Finnair	Helsinki
Garuda Indonesia	Denpasar/Bali, Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta
Hawaiian Airlines	Honolulu
HK Express	Hong Kong
Hong Kong Airlines	Hong Kong
Jeju Air	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Cebu, Chiang Mai, Clark, Da Nang, Fukuoka, Guam, Haikou, Hanoi, Harbin, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jiamusi, Kagoshima, Kaohsiung, Kota Kinabalu, Macau, Manila, Matsuyama, Nagoya–Centrair, Naha, Nantong, Nha Trang, Osaka–Kansai, Phu Quoc, Qingdao, Saipan, Sanya, Sapporo–Chitose, Shijiazhuang, Shizuoka, Tagbilaran, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tokyo–Narita, Vientiane, Vladivostok, Weihai, Yanji, Yantai
Jetstar Airways	Gold Coast
Jin Air	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Cebu, Clark, Da Nang, Fukuoka, Guam, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Kalibo, Kitakyushu, Kota Kinabalu, Macau, Naha, Osaka–Kansai, Saipan, Sapporo–Chitose, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tokyo–Narita Seasonal: Johor Bahru, Phuket, Vientiane
KLM	Amsterdam
Korean Air	Amsterdam, Aomori, Atlanta, Auckland, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing–Capital, Boston, Brisbane, Budapest , Busan, Cebu, Changsha, Chiang Mai, Chicago–O’Hare, Clark, Colombo–Bandaranaike, Daegu, Dalian, Dallas/Fort Worth, Da Lat, Da Nang, Delhi, Denpasar/Bali, Dubai–International, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Guam, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Hefei, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Huangshan, Istanbul, Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta, Jinan, Kathmandu, Koror, Kuala Lumpur–International, Kunming, Las Vegas, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Malé, Manila, Milan–Malpensa, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Mudanjiang, Mumbai, Nagoya–Centrair, Naha, Nanjing, New York–JFK, Nha Trang, Niigata, Okayama, Osaka–Kansai, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Prague, Qingdao, Rome–Fiumicino, San Francisco, Sapporo–Chitose, Seattle/Tacoma, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tashkent, Tel Aviv, Tianjin, Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita, Toronto–Pearson, Ulaanbaatar, Vancouver, Vienna, Vladivostok, Washington–Dulles, Weihai, Wuhan, Xiamen, Xi’an, Yangon, Yanji, Zagreb, Zhangjiajie, Zhengzhou, Zürich Seasonal: Irkutsk, Kagoshima, Komatsu, Phu Quoc, Saint Petersburg, Siem Reap, Ürümqi, Seasonal Charter: Athens, Krabi, Oslo–Gardermoen, Sanya, Tbilisi, Yerevan
Lao Airlines	Vientiane
LOT Polish Airlines	Budapest, Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Malaysia Airlines	Kuala Lumpur–International
MIAT Mongolian Airlines	Ulaanbaatar
Myanmar Airways International	Yangon
Pan Pacific Airlines	Cebu, Clark, Kalibo
Peach Aviation	Naha, Osaka–Kansai, Tokyo–Haneda
Philippine Airlines	Cebu, Manila
Philippines AirAsia	Cebu, Clark, Kalibo, Manila
Qatar Airways	Doha
Qingdao Airlines	Qingdao
Royal Brunei Airlines	Bandar Seri Begawan
S7 Airlines	Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok
Scoot	Singapore, Taipei–Taoyuan
Shandong Airlines	Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai
Shenzhen Airlines	Shenzhen
Sichuan Airlines	Chengdu
Singapore Airlines	Singapore
Sky Angkor Airlines	Siem Reap
Spring Airlines	Shanghai–Pudong, Shijiazhuang, Yangzhou
Thai AirAsia X	Bangkok–Don Mueang
Thai Airways	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Taipei–Taoyuan
Tianjin Airlines	Tianjin
Tigerair Taiwan	Taipei–Taoyuan
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul
T’way Air	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Chiang Mai, Clark, Da Nang, Fukuoka, Guam, Haikou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jinan, Kalibo, Kaohsiung, Khabarovsk (begins 2 July 2020), Macau, Naha, Nha Trang, Osaka–Kansai, Qingdao, Saipan, Sapporo–Chitose, Shenyang, Taichung Tokyo–Narita, Vientiane, Weihai, Wuhan Seasonal: Hong Kong, Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Oita, Saga, Vladivostok
Uni Air	Taipei–Taoyuan
United Airlines	San Francisco (resumes 6 July 2020)
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent
VietJet Air	Can Tho,[67] Da Lat, Da Nang, Hai Phong, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Nha Trang, Phu Quoc
Vietnam Airlines	Da Nang, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Nha Trang Charter: Ha Long
XiamenAir	Xiamen
Yakutia Airlines	Yakutsk
ZIPAIR Tokyo	Tokyo–Narita (begins 1 July 2020)

Cargo


Air China Cargo	Beijing–Capital, Shanghai–Pudong
Air France Cargo	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Air Incheon	Hanoi, Jinan, Qingdao, Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita, Ulaanbaatar, Yantai, Yuzhno–Sakhalinsk
AirBridgeCargo	Moscow–Domodedovo, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg
ANA Cargo	Okinawa–Naha, Osaka–Kansai, Tokyo–Narita
Asiana Cargo	Anchorage, Atlanta, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Beijing–Capital, Brussels, Chicago–O’Hare, Chongqing, Dallas/Fort Worth, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, London–Stansted, Los Angeles, Manila, Miami, Milan–Malpensa, Moscow–Domodedovo, Nagoya–Centrair, New York–JFK, Osaka–Kansai, San Francisco, Seattle/Tacoma, Shanghai–Pudong, Singapore, Tianjin, Tokyo–Narita, Vienna, Yantai
Atlas Air	Vancouver
Cargolux	Luxembourg City
Cathay Pacific Cargo	Hong Kong, Osaka–Kansai
China Cargo Airlines	Shanghai–Pudong
China Postal Airlines	Beijing–Capital, Xi’an, Yantai
DHL Aviation	Anchorage, Cincinnati, Hong Kong, Leipzig/Halle, Los Angeles, Singapore
Emirates SkyCargo	Dubai–Al Maktoum, Osaka–Kansai
Etihad Cargo	Abu Dhabi
FedEx Express	Anchorage, Beijing–Capital, Guangzhou, Los Angeles, Memphis, Newark, Shanghai–Pudong
Korean Air Cargo	Amsterdam, Anchorage, Atlanta, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Basel/Mulhouse, Beijing–Capital, Bogotá, Brussels, Budapest, Campinas, Chicago–O’Hare, Chennai, Cheongju, Copenhagen, Dallas/Fort Worth, Delhi,[70] Frankfurt, Guadalajara, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta–Soekarno–Hatta, Kuala Lumpur–International, Lima, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Manila, Miami, Milan–Malpensa, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Navoi, New York–JFK, Osaka–Kansai, Oslo–Gardermoen, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Penang, Qingdao, San Francisco, Seattle/Tacoma, Shanghai–Pudong, Singapore, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion, Tokyo–Narita, Toronto–Pearson, Vancouver, Vienna, Xiamen, Zaragoza
Lufthansa Cargo	Frankfurt, Krasnoyarsk
Nippon Cargo Airlines	Osaka–Kansai, Shanghai–Pudong, Tokyo–Narita
Okay Airways Cargo	Tianjin
Qantas Freight	Chicago–O’Hare, Sydney
Qatar Airways Cargo	Doha
SF Airlines	Zhengzhou
Silk Way Airlines	Baku
Sky Lease Cargo	Miami
Suparna Airlines	Hangzhou, Qingdao, Shanghai–Pudong
Turkish Airlines Cargo	Almaty, Bishkek, Istanbul–Atatürk, Taipei-Taoyuan, Tashkent
UPS Airlines	Almaty, Anchorage, Hong Kong, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Taipei–Taoyuan, Zhengzhou
Uzbekistan Airways Cargo	Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Volga-Dnepr Airlines	Krasnoyarsk

Incheon International Airport Bird’s-eye view
Source: AirportStudio

Accidents and incidents

On 16 June 2011, Airbus A321-200 Flight 324 operated by Asiana Airlines HL7763 between Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, China and Incheon International Airport was fired upon by two soldiers of the Republic of Korea Marine Corps as it came in to land at Incheon. A total of 99 rounds were discharged at the aircraft, which was out of range and made a safe landing without sustaining any damage. The soldiers had misidentified the aircraft as belonging to the North Korean military, and were acting on orders that gave them permission to engage without reference to senior officers, following the Bombardment of Yeonpyeong in November 2010.

Ground transport

Public transport

Bus

Airport shuttle buses transport passengers between Terminal 1 and Terminal 2. Buses are free, arrive every 5 to 8 minutes, take approximately 20 minutes travel time, and stop at the Hyatt Hotel or airport fire station in route, depending on direction.

Airport buses are called limousine buses. Standard limousine buses travel to Gimpo Airport & Songjeong station.

Intercity buses connect with other towns and cities in Korea.

The Korea City Air Terminal in Gangnam is linked with the airport through limousine buses.

Rail

The Airport Railroad Express (AREX and styled as A’REX) has a station located in the Transport Centre adjacent to the Terminal 1 building and is in the basement of Terminal 2. It provides service to Gimpo International Airport and Seoul. Many of the stations along the line provide connections to Incheon Subway, Seoul Metropolitan Subway, and Incheon Airport Maglev.

For departing passengers, Seoul Station City Airport Terminal has check-in and immigration facilities before arrival at the airport.

The Korea Train eXpress (KTX) operated at the same station as AREX but used a different platform. It operated 20 times per day from the airport; twelve times on the Gyeonbu Line, twice on the Gyeonjeon Line, four times on the Honam Line, and twice on the Jeolla Line. The service started in 2014 but was suspended in March 2018 due to low ridership. The suspension became permanent in September 2018 as the line was officially closed.

The Incheon Airport Maglev opened in February 2016. The first phase is 6.1 km long, spread over six stations, taking riders from the airport toward the south-west of the island where a water park is located. Phase 2 will be 9.7 km long, extending the line to the north-west of the island. Phase 3 will add 37.4 km, transforming the line into a circle.

Ferry

A ferry service connects Yeongjong-do to the mainland. However, the dock is located a considerable distance from the airport. An alternative means of transport must be sought upon arriving at the island to be able to get to the airport.

Car

The airport provides a short term parking lot for 4,000 cars and a long-term parking lot for 6,000 cars. Shuttle services connect the long-term parking lot to the passenger terminal and the cargo terminal. Car rental is located near the long-term parking lot. A link to the mainland is provided by the toll Yeongjong Bridge and an expressway; A second expressway on the Incheon Bridge also connects the island but to central Incheon.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incheon_International_Airport