Singapore from Satellite View - Airport

Singapore

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📍 Coordinates 1.3410, 103.9935

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Singapore Changi Airport is a major civilian airport that serves Singapore, and is one of the largest transportation hubs in Asia. It is currently rated the World's Best Airport by Skytrax, a title it has held for multiple years. It is the home base of Singapore Airlines, SilkAir, Scoot, and Jetstar Asia Airways.

Changi is world-renowned for its unrivaled passenger amenities. The crown jewel is "Jewel Changi Airport," a nature-themed entertainment and retail complex connected to three terminals. It houses the Rain Vortex, the world's tallest indoor waterfall, surrounded by a terraced forest setting. Passengers often arrive early just to visit the airport.

The airport has four terminals and three runways. The terminals are famously carpeted, reducing noise and creating a cozy feel. Changi also features a butterfly garden, a cactus garden, a rooftop swimming pool, and movie theaters. It sets the global benchmark for what an airport experience can be.

Changi Airport is operated by Changi Airport Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government's sovereign investment fund. Changi Airport Group also operates Sao Paulo–Guarulhos, Cebu Mactan and eight other airports across Latin America, Southeast Asia and Russia under long-term concessions signed after 2007. The site occupies 13 square kilometres of reclaimed land on Singapore's eastern tip, with construction requiring 200 million cubic metres of sand pumped from the nearby island of Sedili and neighbouring Indonesian archipelagoes. Its foundation stone was laid by then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on 30 December 1975, and commercial service began on 1 July 1981 with a Singapore Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur. Changi is unique among major hubs in having planned its Terminal 5 to be operationally larger than Terminals 1 through 4 combined, with a target opening around 2030.

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At zoom 12, Changi Airport sits at the eastern tip of Singapore island, with two parallel runways running roughly northeast–southwest along the coastline. The Changi Bay reclamation area extends to the east as flat, pale land still being developed. The lush tropical greenery of Singapore's East Coast Park runs along the southern shore. Terminal buildings cluster on the western side between the runways. The distinctive Jewel Changi complex (with its indoor waterfall) appears as a circular structure connecting terminals. The Singapore Strait's shipping lanes to the south show numerous vessel dots, and the coast of Johor, Malaysia is visible to the north across the narrow strait.

Additional features fine-tune the identification. The Changi Beach Park runs along the northeastern shore as a slender green ribbon 3.3 kilometres long, popular with Singaporean picnickers and visible from orbit as a distinctive palm-tree-lined boardwalk backed by the pale sand of the strand. The Changi Village Ferry Terminal 5 kilometres northeast handles bumboat services to Pulau Ubin, a preserved undeveloped island of former granite quarries and kampong-style Malay villages that appears as a compact green landmass 2 kilometres offshore. The Pasir Ris Park mangrove estuary sits 8 kilometres west and shows a mottled dark green pattern against the surrounding urban grid. The runway 02L/20R currently under construction on the far eastern edge extends into the reclaimed Changi East region where Terminal 5 will eventually sit.

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IATA Code SIN

Passengers/Year ~68 million

Runways 2

Opened 1981

Hub For Singapore Airlines, Scoot

ICAO Code WSSS

Terminals 4 (T1–T4) + Jewel

Operator Changi Airport Group

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Changi has been named the World's Best Airport by Skytrax for over 10 consecutive years—more than any other airport in history.
The Jewel Changi complex features the world's tallest indoor waterfall (40 metres), a 5-storey indoor garden, and over 280 shops—it's a destination in itself.
The airport has a rooftop swimming pool, butterfly garden, movie theatre, and sunflower garden, all free for transit passengers.
A third runway and Terminal 5 (designed to handle 50 million additional passengers) are under construction on reclaimed land to the east.
Changi's Terminal 2 was closed entirely for renovation from May 2020 until October 2022, an unusual 29-month rehabilitation that took advantage of the pandemic downturn in air traffic to modernise 358,000 square metres of terminal floor space; the reopening ceremony included an indoor drone display of 300 self-navigating micro-vehicles arranged into flying formations depicting Singapore's national bird, the crimson sunbird
The airport's Butterfly Garden inside Terminal 3 (opened November 2008) is the world's first tropical butterfly garden built inside an airport terminal; it houses over 1,000 butterflies of 40 species raised at a dedicated breeding facility in western Singapore, and the enclosure includes a 6-metre waterfall that helps maintain the 25–30 degrees Celsius temperature and 80 per cent humidity the insects require to thrive
Since 2016 Changi has operated a fully automated baggage handling system called SMART Baggage Handling that uses individual carrier vehicles rather than conveyor belts; each bag travels on its own robotic tote through a network of 40 kilometres of underground track, reducing lost-bag rates to below 0.2 per 1,000 passengers—less than a quarter of the international standard as measured by SITA

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