Wuhai Airport guide

Wuhai Airport serves Wuhai, an industrial city in western Inner Mongolia on the Yellow River. It lies about 15 km north of the city. The airport opened on December 12, 2003, with a Hainan Airlines flight from Beijing via Hohhot, flown by a 32-seat Dornier turboprop. It was built under the 10th Five-Year Plan at a cost of 145 million yuan.

A 2006 expansion enabled Boeing 737-800 operations, and test flights with the type ran in July 2008. A renovated and enlarged terminal opened on August 15, 2010. The airport has one runway. It first passed 500,000 passengers in 2019. In 2025 it handled 770,945 passengers and 7,556 aircraft movements, along with 647 tonnes of cargo.

All scheduled service is domestic. Routes reach Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Xi'an and Tianjin, plus regional links to Hohhot, Chifeng, Tongliao and Xilinhot. Carriers include Air China, China Eastern, Hainan Airlines, Juneyao Air, Spring Airlines and Tianjin Airlines.