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China s Chengdu Tianfu International Airport is officially open CNN 16 hrs ago By Karla Cripps, CNN © Visual China Group/Getty Images An aerial view of Chengdu Tianfu International Airport. Photo by VCG via Getty Images. China s long-awaited Chengdu Tianfu International Airport has officially begun operations, offering travelers a new gateway to the home of giant pandas. Its inaugural flight, operated by Sichuan Airlines, took off at 11:10 a.m. on Sunday, bound for Beijing. Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, is now the third city in the country to have two international airports, joining Shanghai and Beijing. Constructed at a cost of about 70 billion Chinese yuan ($10.8 billion), phase one of the massive aviation hub has the capacity to handle up to 60 million passengers per year, further opening up the country s southwest region.

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