Wuhan Tianhe International Airport

Wuhan Tianhe International Airport 武汉天河国际机场 Wǔhàn Tiānhé Guójì Jīchǎng
IATA: WUH – ICAO: ZHHH
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Wuhan Tianhe International Airport Co. Ltd.
Serves		Wuhan
Location		Huangpi District
Elevation AMSL		34 m / 112 ft
Coordinates		30°47′01″N 114°12′29″E
Website		www.whairport.com
Map
WUH Location in Hubei
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
04/22	3,400	11,155	Concrete
Statistics (2010)
Passengers			11,646,789
Source: China's busiest airports by passenger traffic

Wuhan Tianhe International Airport (simplified Chinese: 武汉天河国际机场; traditional Chinese: 武漢天河國際機場; pinyin: Wǔhàn Tiānhé Guójì Jīchǎng) (IATA: WUH, ICAO: ZHHH) serves Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei province, People's Republic of China. It was opened on April 15, 1995. The airport is located in Wuhan's suburban Huangpi District, around 26 kilometres to the north of Wuhan city center. It is the busiest airport of central China as it is geographically located in the centre of China's airline route network.

The airport served 11,646,789 passengers in 2010, making it the 14th busiest airport by passenger traffic in China.

Terminal 2

Recent developments included the construction of a second terminal, a planned second runway in order to better serve the increasing passengers as well as to accommodate the Airbus 380 jumbo jet. The second terminal, which has a floor area of 121,200 square meters and a designed capacity to handle 13 million passengers and 320,000 tons of cargo a year. The expansion project is expected to be complete by July 2008, with a total cost of 3.37 billion yuan (421.5 million US dollars). By 2010, Wuhan is expected to serve at least five international and 100 domestic routes. Some 12.2 million passengers are expected to pass through Wuhan each year, and the city's cargo-handling capacity is to reach 144,000 tons. [1]

The name Tianhe (天河) can be translated as "Sky River"; it is also one of the old names for the Milky Way.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air China	Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Dalian, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hailar, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hohhot, Macau, Shenzhen, Tokyo-Narita, Xiamen
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle [begins 12 April 2012]
Chengdu Airlines	Chengdu, Lianyungang, Taizhou
China Airlines	Taipei-Taoyuan
China Eastern Airlines	Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Enshi, Fuzhou, Haikou, Kunming, Lanzhou, Ningbo, Qingdao, Sanya, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Taipei-Taoyuan, Taiyuan, Wenzhou, Xi'an, Xiamen
China Southern Airlines	Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Enshi, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Jinan, Kunming, Nanjing, Nanning, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shanghai-Pudong, Shantou, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Urumqi, Wenzhou, Xi'an, Xiamen, Xuzhou, Zhuhai
Dragonair	Hong Kong
Hainan Airlines	Beijing-Capital, Dalian, Haikou, Lanzhou, Sanya, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Urumqi, Wenzhou, Xi'an
Hong Kong Express Airways	Hong Kong
Juneyao Airlines	Shanghai-Hongqiao
Korean Air	Seoul-Incheon
Lucky Air	Chengdu
Shandong Airlines	Guangzhou, Guiyang, Jinan, Nanning, Qingdao, Sanya, Shenzhen
Shanghai Airlines	Shanghai-Hongqiao
Shenzhen Airlines	Changchun, Guangzhou, Hohhot, Kunming, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Wuxi, Xining
Sichuan Airlines	Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Nantong
Silk Air	Singapore [begins 24 April 2012]
TransAsia Airways	Hualien, Taipei-Songshan
West Air (China)	Chongqing
Xiamen Airlines	Chengdu, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Jinan, Kunming, Quanzhou/Jinjiang, Tianjin, Urumqi, Xi'an, Xiamen, Zhengzhou

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Uni-Top Airlines	Chennai, Delhi

See also

• List of airports in the People's Republic of China

References

• Xinhua

External links

• Wuhan Tianhe International Airport Official website (Chinese) (English)
• Airport information for ZHHH at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.