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Commercial airport in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
Wuxi Shuofang Airport (IATA: WUX, ICAO: ZSWX) is an airport located in the city of Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
The airport was built in 1955 for military use, and commercial flights only started in 2004. 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 one of 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), and 26 parking spaces (new parking spaces are currently under construction). The flight runway is 3,200 meters long. The airport flight area level is 4E according to the Chinese standard.
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.
As of December 14, 2024, the airport served 10 million passengers annually for the first time, making it the second airport in Jiangsu Province with the annual passenger traffic of more than 10 million. The general revision plan of the airport, which includes the construction of a new second runway, the extension of the first runway, the construction of a new Terminal 3, and a comprehensive transportation hub, has been approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
Facilities
The airport has one runway designated 03/21 which measures 3,200 by 50 metres (10,499 ft × 164 ft).
According to the short-term goals set by the WUX 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.
In July 2024, on the left is the cargo terminal under construction and part of the taxiway supporting the second runway.
In accordance with Jiangsu Province’s Civil Aviation “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” and 2020 development plan, 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.
The airport is served by the Wuxi Shuofang Airport station on Line 3 of the Wuxi Metro. Passengers to Suzhou can take the metro line and get off at Wuxi New District Station or Wuxi Railway Station to transfer to the intercity railway train to Suzhou. There are also direct buses from the airport to Wuxi downtown and Suzhou downtown; the ticket office is located at the airport bus service counter in the ground floor lobby of T2.
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