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It is the largest airport in the southern part of the country, and serves as the operational base for China Southern Airlines. The Hong Kong International Airport was named the world’s best for the seventh-year in an annual survey of passengers, with Asian airports dominating the top positions in the list. 
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The larger of Rome’s two airports, Leonardo da Vinci is known as Fiumicino. It’s located approximately 32k from the center of Rome. It served around 33 million passengers in 2007. More than 100 airlines fly here. With more than 160 shops, you can find everything you need at the right price in a compact, comfortable environment. A careful selection of perfumes, liqueurs, traditional food products and clothing is there for you to choose with advantageous purchase conditions. The airport has a wide variety for the passengers divided over the public area and boarding area with some shops for last minute shopping in the hubs.

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Madrid Barajas Airport opened in 1933 and was subsequently extended several times. By the early ‘90s, the existing airport had become over-stretched and the need for a terminal, satellite, ancillary buildings and two new runways in the north-west was identified. The client, the Spanish National Airports Authority (AENA) initiated an international competition which was won by a consortium of Richard Rogers Partnership, the Spanish practice Estudio Lamela and two engineering companies TPS and Initec in 1997. The design was chosen for it simplicity, adaptability and flexibility, allowing for future changes and extensions.
As a 21st-century airport, the New Terminal at Barajas will be efficient, simple, economic and functional, accommodating anticipated growth in passenger traffic, which could be up to 35 million per annum in 2010 and 50 million in 2020, double the capacity of the old airport.

The new NAT is located only three kilometres from the old terminals and, after public transportation links have been completed, will be only 15 minutes by underground from the city centre, enhancing Madrid’s prominence as a major cosmopolitan centre and prime transport hub. When the new Barajas Airport is fully operational, there will be a workforce of 20,000 on site each day.

The New Terminal Building should quickly adapt to economic and social changes and have the capacity to implement new technologies, whilst respecting the environment.
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