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Changi Invests, Grows and Targets “Tourist Mindshare”

Handling on average more than a million travelers a week and almost 1,000 aircraft movements a day, Singapore's Changi Airport is seeing record numbers of flights and passengers.

By Ian Goold • Senior correspondent

February 10, 2014

About 40 years after Singapore decided to build a new national airport at the former RAF Changi–initially anticipating requirements to accommodate 30 million passengers/year–the city state has seen a related decision also to reclaim land from the sea vindicated after traveller numbers reached 30 million in 2004, 40 million six years later and 50 million in 2012.

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