Daqing Sartu Airport guide

Daqing Sartu Airport serves Daqing, an oil-producing city in western Heilongjiang province. The IATA code is DQA and the ICAO code is ZYDQ. The airport sits in Sartu District, about 17.5 km from the eastern urban area and 22.5 km from the western urban area. It is rated 4C and works as a regional airport.

Construction was approved by China's State Council and Central Military Commission on 21 May 2006. The first test flight landed on 13 August 2009 and the airport opened to traffic on 1 September 2009. A first expansion finished in 2011 and added two Class II remote aircraft stands, a de-icing apron and a city terminal building. A further project started in 2019 to add an international terminal of about 8,200 square metres, a boarding bridge and an immigration control building.

There is a single concrete runway, 17/35, 2,600 metres long and 45 metres wide. The main terminal covers 14,000 square metres and was designed for 1.47 million passengers a year by 2020. Air China, China Eastern, China Southern and Chengdu Airlines fly to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Qingdao, Dalian, Sanya and Harbin. In 2025 the airport handled 900,392 passengers, 7,157 aircraft movements and 1,903.2 tonnes of cargo.