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Singapore Changi Airport,
Changi International Airport, or simply Changi Airport, is the main
airport in Singapore. A major aviation hub in Southeast Asia, it is
about 17.2 kilometres (10.7 mi) north-east from the commercial
centre in Changi, on a 13 square kilometres (5.0 sq mi) site.
The airport, operated by the Changi Airport Group, is
the home base of Singapore Airlines, Singapore Airlines Cargo,
SilkAir, Tiger Airways, Jetstar Asia Airways, Valuair, and Jett8
Airlines Cargo. As of November 2010, Changi Airport serves more than
100 airlines operating 6,100 weekly flights flying off to some 210
cities in about 60 countries and territories worldwide. The airport
is a secondary hub for Qantas, which uses Singapore as the main
stopover point for flights on the Kangaroo Route between Australia
and Europe. Qantas is the largest foreign airline to operate from
the airport, with over two million passengers annually. An important
contributor to the Economy of Singapore, more than 28,000 people are
employed at the airport, which accounts for over S$4.5 billion in
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