Sunan Shuofang International Airport (IATA: WUX, ICAO: ZSWX), originally as Wuxi Shuofang Airport, is an airport in Wuxi, southern Jiangsu, China.[3]
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Sunan Shuofang International Airport
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| Airport type | Public |
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| Owner/Operator | Sunan Shuofang International Airport Ltd. |
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| Serves | Wuxi and Suzhou |
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| Location | Xinwu, Wuxi, Jiangsu |
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| Opened | 18 February 2004; 20 years ago (2004-02-18) |
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| Elevation AMSL | 5 m / 16 ft |
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| Coordinates | 31°29′40″N 120°25′46″E |
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| Website | www.wuxiairport.com |
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| Passengers | 7,126,411 |
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| Cargo (tons) | 163,395.2 |
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| Aircraft movements | 65,650 |
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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]
The airport has one runway designated 03/21 which measures 3,200 by 50 metres (10,499 ft × 164 ft).[2]
According to the short-term goals set by the Wuxi Airport Terminal Expansion Project, the airport's annual passenger throughput will reach 10 million by 2020, including 9 million domestic and 1 million international. The annual number of aircraft takeoffs and landings is approximately 80,000, and the passenger throughput during peak periods reaches 3,460 passengers per hour. By 2050, the annual passenger throughput of the airport will be approximately 25 million.[7]
In accordance with Jiangsu Province’s Civil Aviation “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” and 2020 development plan, Wuxi Shuofang Airport is positioned as a hub airport and an important part of Shanghai’s large-scale composite hub airport. Relying on the air passenger and cargo demand in southern Jiangsu, a first-class port will be opened. It was eventually built into a total of 3 terminals with 2 runways, T1, T2, and T3, with a designed annual passenger throughput capacity of 25 million passengers and a cargo and mail throughput capacity of 1.5 million tons.[8]
