Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport

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Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport (IATA: XMN, ICAO: ZSAM) is an international airport serving the city of Xiamen in East China’s Fujian province. It is the main airline hub for XiamenAir and TAECO, an aircraft maintenance provider. The airport is located on the north side of Xiamen Island. Construction of a new terminal (Terminal 4) started in October 2011 and was completed in 2014.^[3]

Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport 厦门高崎国际机场
IATA: XMN ICAO: ZSAM
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Xiamen International Airport Group Co., Ltd.(XIAGC)
Serves	Xiamen
Location	Huli, Xiamen, Fujian, China
Opened	22 October 1983; 41 years ago (1983-10-22)
Hub for	XiamenAir
Focus city for	China Eastern Airlines[1] Shandong Airlines Spring Airlines
Elevation AMSL	18 m / 59 ft
Coordinates	24°32′39″N 118°07′40″E
Maps
CAAC airport chart
XMN/ZSAM Location in Fujian Show map of Fujian XMN/ZSAM Location in China Show map of China
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 05/23 3,400 11,155 Asphalt
Statistics (2024[2])
Passengers 27,906,946 Aircraft movements 193,268 Cargo 375,652.9
Source: List of the busiest airports in the People's Republic of China

Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport
Simplified Chinese	厦门高崎国际机场
Traditional Chinese	廈門高崎國際機場
Hokkien POJ	Ē-mn̂g Kò-kiâ Kok-chè Ki-tiû
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xiàmén Gāoqí Guójì Jīchǎng Wade–Giles Hsia4-mên2 Kao1-ch'i2 Kuo2-chi4 Chi1-ch'ang2 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Ē-mn̂g Kò-kiâ Kok-chè Ki-tiû

Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport Terminal 3

Aerial view of Xiamen Island. Gaoqi Airport can be seen in the bottom left of the island.

Baggage claim area of T4 in 2017

Boeing 787 of Xiamen Airlines at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport

In 2024, Xiamen airport was the 14th busiest airport in China in terms of cargo traffic, and the 17th busiest in terms of passenger traffic with 27,906,946 passengers and the 19th busiest airport by traffic movements.

History

New destinations

KLM began the first intercontinental air route out of Xiamen, to Amsterdam, on 27 March 2011.^[4] Since then, long-haul traffic has expanded, with XiamenAir launching flights to Amsterdam, Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Paris and Doha after taking delivery of the Boeing 787.

New airport

Following the opening of Terminal 4 in 2014, Gaoqi airport had little room to expand. As such, a new airport is currently under construction on Dadeng Island, Xiang'an District, currently known as Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport. When completed it will have two new runways, a 550,000 sq meter terminal, and be able to handle up to 45 million passengers, and have subway links to Xiamen railway station.^[5][6]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
9 Air	Guiyang
Aero Dili	Dili[7]
Air Chang'an	Ezhou,[8] Xi'an, Xinyang[9]
Air China	Beijing–Capital, Beijing–Daxing, Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chengdu–Tianfu, Chongqing, Guiyang, Tianjin, Wuhan, Zhengzhou
Air Guilin	Guilin,[10] Taiyuan[10]
Air Macau	Macau
Batik Air Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur–International[11]
Beijing Capital Airlines	Beijing–Daxing, Huangshan, Lijiang,[12] Shenyang,[13] Urumqi, Xi'an, Zhengzhou
Cathay Pacific	Hong Kong
Chengdu Airlines	Chengdu–Tianfu, Dazhou,[14] Jinggangshan
China Eastern Airlines	Beijing–Daxing, Changchun,[15] Changzhou, Chengdu–Tianfu,[16] Hefei, Kunming, Lanzhou,[17] Nanjing, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shiyan, Taiyuan, Wuhan, Wuxi, Xi'an, Yantai,[18] Zhengzhou,[17] Zhoushan[18]
China Express Airlines	Chengdu–Tianfu,[19] Xi'an,[20] Xiangyang[20]
China Southern Airlines	Beijing–Daxing, Dalian, Enshi, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Harbin, Nanning, Shenyang, Urumqi, Weihai, Wuhan, Zhengzhou
China United Airlines	Beijing–Daxing, Jining,[21] Ordos,[21] Shijiazhuang[22]
Chongqing Airlines	Changsha,[23] Chongqing[23]
Dalian Airlines	Beijing–Capital[24]
Fuzhou Airlines	Hami,[25] Harbin,[26] Zhengzhou,[25] Zhoushan[26]
GX Airlines	Nanning[27]
Hainan Airlines	Beijing–Capital, Changsha, Chongqing, Haikou, Harbin, Hefei, Lanzhou, Shenyang, Taiyuan, Ürümqi, Wuhan, Xi'an, Yan'an, Zhengzhou
Hebei Airlines	Datong,[28] Ordos,[22] Shijiazhuang, Wenzhou[29]
Jiangxi Air	Nanchang, Zhengzhou[30]
Juneyao Airlines	Nanjing, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong
Korean Air	Seoul–Incheon[31]
Kunming Airlines	Kunming
Lucky Air	Chengdu–Tianfu,[32] Kunming
Malaysia Airlines	Kuala Lumpur–International[33]
Mandarin Airlines	Kaohsiung, Taipei–Taoyuan
Okay Airways	Changsha
Philippine Airlines	Manila
Shandong Airlines	Baotou, Beijing–Capital, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chengdu–Tianfu,[34] Chongqing, Dalian, Dongying, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou,[35] Hangzhou, Harbin, Heze,[36] Hohhot, Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta,[37] Jinan, Jingdezhen, Kunming, Lanzhou, Linyi, Nanjing, Qingdao, Rizhao, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenyang, Shiyan,[38] Taiyuan, Tianjin, Ürümqi, Wuhan, Xi'an, Xuzhou,[39] Yantai, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou, Zhoushan
Shanghai Airlines	Shanghai–Hongqiao
Shenzhen Airlines	Harbin, Nantong, Yangzhou
Sichuan Airlines	Changsha, Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chengdu–Tianfu, Chongqing, Kunming, Yichun (Jiangxi)
Singapore Airlines	Singapore[40]
Spring Airlines	Bangkok–Don Mueang, Changchun, Handan, Lanzhou, Osaka–Kansai,[41] Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shenyang, Shijiazhuang, Yangzhou
Tianjin Airlines	Anqing,[42] Changsha,[42] Chizhou,[43] Dalian,[42] Fuyang, Haikou, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xi'an, Yantai,[42] Yichang,[44] Zunyi–Xinzhou
Tibet Airlines	Chengdu–Shuangliu
Uni Air	Taipei–Songshan
West Air	Chongqing, Zhengzhou[45]
XiamenAir	Amsterdam, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Beijing–Daxing, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu–Tianfu, Chongqing, Dalian, Denpasar, Doha,[46] Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Harbin, Hefei, Hengyang, Ho Chi Minh City, Hohhot, Hong Kong, Huai'an,[47] Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta, Jinan, Jingzhou,[48] Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur–International, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Lianyungang, Lijiang, Liuzhou, Los Angeles, Luzhou, Macau, Malé,[49] Manila, Melbourne, Mianyang, Nanchong, Nanjing, Nanning, Ningbo, Osaka–Kansai, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Penang,[50] Phnom Penh, Qingdao, Sanya, Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei–Songshan, Taipei–Taoyuan, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Tokyo–Narita,[51] Ürümqi, Vancouver, Wanzhou, Wuhan, Wuyishan, Xi'an, Xining, Xinzhou, Xishuangbanna,[52] Yancheng, Yangon, Yinchuan, Yuncheng, Zhengzhou, Zhongwei,[53] Zhoushan, Zhuhai, Zunyi–Maotai

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
ANA Cargo	Tokyo–Narita
Cargolux	Beijing–Capital, Luxembourg
Cathay Cargo	Hong Kong, Shanghai–Pudong
Central Airlines	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
China Cargo Airlines	Osaka–Kansai
Ethiopian Cargo	São Paulo–Guarulhos[54]
Hong Kong Air Cargo	Hong Kong, Shanghai–Pudong
Korean Air Cargo	Seoul–Incheon
MSC Air Cargo[55]	Anchorage, Seoul–Incheon
Suparna Airlines Cargo	Clark, Shanghai–Pudong

See also

• List of airports in China
• List of the busiest airports in China