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Wuhan Tianhe
International Airport

武汉天河国际机场

Wǔhàn Tiānhé Guójì Jīchǎng
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorWuhan Tianhe International Airport Co. Ltd.
ServesWuhan
LocationHuangpi District
Elevation AMSL34 m / 112 ft
Websitewww.whairport.com
Map
WUH is located in Hubei
WUH
WUH
Location in Hubei
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04/22 3,400 11,155 Concrete
Statistics (2010)
Passengers11,646,789

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 is a focus city for Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines.

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

AirlinesDestinations
Air China Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Macau, Sanya, Shenzhen, Tokyo-Narita, Xiamen
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Chengdu Airlines Chengdu, Lianyungang, Taizhou
China Airlines Taipei-Taoyuan
China Eastern Airlines Beijing-Capital, Changchun, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Enshi, Haikou, Kaohsiung, Kunming, Lanzhou, Ningbo, Qingdao, Sanya, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Shanghai-Pudong, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Singapore, Taipei-Taoyuan, Taiyuan, Wenzhou, Xi'an, Xiamen
China Southern Airlines Beijing-Capital, Changchun, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Enshi, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Jinan, Kunming, Nanjing, Nanning, Ningbo, Qingdao, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Shantou, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Urumqi, Wenzhou, Xi'an, Xiamen, Xuzhou, Zhuhai
Dragonair Hong Kong
Far Eastern Air Transport Magong
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 AirSingapore
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

AirlinesDestinations
Uni-Top AirlinesChennai, Delhi [1]
  • Airport departure hall
    Airport departure hall
  • A China Eastern airplane approaching Terminal 2
    A China Eastern airplane approaching Terminal 2
  • inside the airport
    inside the airport
  • Baggage claim area
    Baggage claim area
  • Parking lot under the airport
    Parking lot under the airport
  • A Xinhua Airline plane in front of the then Terminal 2
    A Xinhua Airline plane in front of the then Terminal 2
  • International terminal (the new Terminal 1)
    International terminal (the new Terminal 1)
  • Airport expressway
    Airport expressway
  • The 2nd airport expressway under construction
    The 2nd airport expressway under construction

See also

References

  1. ^ Uni-Top launch service with Indian routes
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