Sunan Shuofang International Airport 苏南硕放国际机场 | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | public / military | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Sunan Shuofang International Airport Ltd. | ||||||||||
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| Location | Shuofang Subdistrict, Xinwu District, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China | ||||||||||
| Opened | 18 February 2004 | ||||||||||
| Hub for | Ruili Airlines | ||||||||||
| Built | 1955 | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 5 m / 16 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 31°29′40″N 120°25′46″E / 31.49444°N 120.42944°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
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  WUX/ZSWX Location in Jiangsu  WUX/ZSWX WUX/ZSWX (China) | |||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 苏南硕放国际机场 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 蘇南碩放國際機場 | ||||||
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Sunan Shuofang International Airport (IATA: WUX, ICAO: ZSWX), also known as Wuxi Shuofang Airport, is an airport serving the cities of Wuxi and Suzhou in East China’s Jiangsu province.[3] It is located in the southeast of Shuofang, Xinwu District, Wuxi City, and adjacent to Wangting, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou City in the south; it is 16 kilometres from Wuxi downtown in the northwest and 2 kilometres from the Wuxi New District, and 20 kilometres from Suzhou downtown in the southeast and 5 kilometres from the Suzhou New District. The airport is a civilian-military dual-use airport.
The airport was built in 1955 for military use, and commercial flights only started in 2004.[4] In 2019, the airport handled 7.97 million passengers and 145,000 tons of cargo and mail, ranking 42nd and 22nd in terms of business volume among civil aviation airports in China. The airport is the second largest in Jiangsu Province and the only profitable among the nine airports in Jiangsu Province except Nanjing Lukou Airport. The airport currently has two terminals, 23 boarding gates (T1 Terminal Building 1-12, T2 Terminal Building 13-23), 26 parking spaces (new parking spaces are currently under construction), and the flight runway is 3,200 meters long, the airport flight area level is 4E according to the Chinese standard.[5]
In May 2023, the airport cargo hub station building and part of the supporting second runway taxiway project officially started, which also marked the official start of the airport expansion.[6]
- ^ (in Chinese) Wuxi Airport Co., Ltd. Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Airport information for Sunan Shuofang International Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
- ^ "Introduction to Sunan Shuofang International Airport-Latest information". www.chinairport.net. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
- ^ Sunan Shuofang International Airport Co., Ltd. was officially unveiled Archived 2012-04-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The reconstruction and expansion project of Sunan Shuofang International Airport has begun in full swing, with a total investment of approximately 3.5 billion yuan". sghexport.shobserver.com. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
- ^ "Jiangsu Provincial Government City and County News: Sunan Shuofang International Airport reconstruction and expansion project has begun". www.jiangsu.gov.cn. Retrieved 2024-03-30.