Sunan Shuofang International Airport
Commercial airport serving Wuxi, Jiangsu, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sunan Shuofang International Airport (IATA: WUX, ICAO: ZSWX), originally as Wuxi Shuofang Airport, is an airport serving the cities of Wuxi and Suzhou in East China’s Jiangsu province.[3]
Sunan Shuofang International Airport 苏南硕放国际机场 | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Sunan Shuofang International Airport Ltd. | ||||||||||
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Location | Xinwu, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China | ||||||||||
Opened | 18 February 2004; 20 years ago (2004-02-18) | ||||||||||
Built | 1955; 69 years ago (1955) | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 5 m / 16 ft | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 31°29′40″N 120°25′46″E | ||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 无锡硕放机场 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 無錫碩放機場 | ||||||
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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.
Wuxi Shuofang Airport is the second largest airport in Jiangsu Province and the only profitable airport among the nine airports in Jiangsu Province except Nanjing 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.[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]