Incheon International Airport is ranked as the fourth-best airport in the world
The biggest airport in South Korea is Incheon International Airport. One of the biggest and busiest airports in the world, it is the primary airport servicing the Seoul Metropolitan Area. Actually, the volume of foreign aviation travel to Korea surged following the 1988 Summer Olympics. Gimpo International Airport became evidently unable to handle the rise in flight traffic in the 1990s. The government made the decision to construct a new international airport in order to lighten the burden on Gimpo International Airport. Due to its distance from Seoul and Gyeonggi, the new airport was initially intended to be built at Cheongju, 124 km to the southeast of Seoul. The alternate option, Hwaseong, was also disregarded for the same reasons. Incheon was finally picked as the location.
On the reclaimed ground between Yeongjong Island and Youngyudo Island, the Incheon airport was built beginning in November 1992. The project took eight years to complete, plus an extra six months for testing. Initial plans were for completion in 1997, but the recession caused it to be postponed. The airport was formally inaugurated on March 21, 2001.
According to Skytrax, Incheon International Airport is now ranked as the fourth-best airport in the world as of 2021. Additionally, Skytrax has ranked this airport as both one of the cleanest airports in the world and the greatest international transit airport in the whole globe. In addition to receiving the prize for best airport security in 2021, Incheon International Airport is one of Skytrax's five-star airports.
Incheon International Airport held the top spot in the yearly list of the world's finest airports from 2005 to 2011 according to Airport Council International (ACI). Additionally, from 2006 to 2016, until the rating cycle came to a close in 2017, ACI recognized this airport as the top airport in Asia-Pacific for ten years in a row.
