Ezhou Huahu Airport 鄂州花湖机场 | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Echeng, Ezhou, Hubei, China | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 17 July 2022 | ||||||||||||||
| Hub for | SF Airlines | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 21 m / 69 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°20′34.28″N 115°1′46.60″E / 30.3428556°N 115.0296111°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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  EHU/ZHEC Location of airport in Hubei | |||||||||||||||
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Source: CAPA[1] | |||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 鄂州花湖机场 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鄂州花湖機場 | ||||||
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Ezhou Huahu Airport (IATA: EHU, ICAO: ZHEC) is an airport serving the cities of Ezhou, Huanggang and Huangshi in Hubei, China.[2]
The airport was developed by SF Express and Hubei province as a logistics hub for China and is touted as China's first cargo-focused airport.[3][4] One of the factors for SF Express to choose Ezhou as the site of a major cargo hub is it being located almost equidistant from Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, while also being only an hour drive away from Wuhan.[5]
The airport uses a single terminal with two runways as well as logistics facilities for handling an initial operation of over two million tonnes of cargo. The terminal is planned to handle one million passengers annually by 2025.
On 29 December 2021, the first aircraft carried out flight verification at the airport.[6][7] The airport opened on 17 July 2022 for passenger service.[8] Cargo service started on 27 November 2022.[9]
- ^ "Ezhou Huahu Airport New Airport Profile | CAPA". CAPA - Centre for Aviation.
- ^ Zhang Yawei (14 January 2021). "Ezhou Huahu Airport officially named". 中国网·中国湖北.
- ^ Yusuke Hinata (16 March 2021). "Courier SF Holding readies China's first cargo airport". Nikkei Asia.
- ^ "China's first cargo-focused airport launches international flights". 3 April 2023.
- ^ Sales, Michael; Scholte, Sebastiaan (2023-04-13). Air Cargo Management: Air Freight and the Global Supply Chain. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-85241-7.
- ^ huaxia (29 December 2021). "First cargo airport in Hubei-Xinhua". Xinhua News Agency.
- ^ Rebecca Jeffrey (4 January 2022). "China's Ezhou Huahu Airport hits milestone". Air Cargo News.
- ^ "鄂州花湖机场机票开售 去北京比坐高铁还便宜". 极目新闻 (in Chinese (China)). 2022-07-10.
- ^ "你好鄂州！鄂州花湖机场首条货运航线开通". 长江云 (in Chinese (China)). Hubei Television. 2022-11-27. Archived from the original on 2022-11-27.