| | Singapore Changi Airport - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | In addition to being an important passenger traffic hub, the airport is one of the busiest cargo airports in the world, handling 1,780,000 tonnes of cargo in 2004. |
 | | Concerned that the existing airport was located in an area with potential for urban growth and was physically hemmed in on all sides, the government decided in 1975 to build a new airport at the eastern tip of the main island at Changi, where an airport could be expanded by reclaiming land. |
 | | Singapore Airport is a top airport in terms of customer service and security and has won a large number of awards and accolades as the best airport since its opening in 1981, from organisations such as International Air Transport Association [ ] and Business Traveller [ ]. |
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