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Incheon International Airport, South Korea

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

. 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Good connectivity• Airport buses are called

limousine buses and are available outside the arrival areas on the first floor.

• 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.

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