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WUX Airport overview

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. 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. 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. On December 14, 2024, the annual passenger throughput of Shuofang Airport exceeded 10 million for the first time, making it the second airport in Jiangsu Province with an annual passenger throughput of more than 10 million. In addition, the general plan revision plan of Wuxi Shuofang Airport regarding the construction of a new second runway, extension of the first runway, construction of a new T3 terminal, and a comprehensive transportation hub was approved by the Civil Aviation Administration.

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