Chengdu Tianfu International Airport 成都天府国际机场 | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Aerial view of the airport in 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Sichuan Provincial Airport Group | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Chengdu | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Lujia Town, Jianyang, Sichuan, China | ||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 27 June 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 440 m / 1,444 ft | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°19′08″N 104°26′42″E / 30.319°N 104.445°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | sctfia.com | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Airport map | |||||||||||||||||||
  TFU/ZUTF Location in Sichuan  TFU/ZUTF Location in China | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 成都天府国际机场 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 成都天府國際機場 | ||||||||
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Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (IATA: TFU, ICAO: ZUTF; also known as Tianfu Airport) is one of two international airports serving Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwestern China. It was planned in 2013 and opened in 2021 as Chengdu Shuangliu Airport was exceeding its designed maximum passenger capacity for years.
The airport is located at Lujia Town of Jianyang, 51 km (32 mi) southeast of downtown Chengdu. The construction of this airport began in May 2016, and the airport opened in June 2021. Chengdu is the third city in China to have dual international airports after Beijing and Shanghai.[3]
In 2023, Chengdu Tianfu International Airport and Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport together handled a total of 538,000 flight takeoffs and landings, with a passenger volume of 74.924 million. The annual passenger volume makes Chengdu 3rd among the cities with airport systems in China.[4] Chengdu Tianfu International Airport alone ranks 39th between the busiest airports in the world, the fifth-busiest in China when ranked by passenger traffic (44,786,101 passengers in 2023 alone).
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