Enshi Xujiaping Airport guide

Enshi Xujiaping International Airport serves Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, a mountainous part of southwestern Hubei province. It sits in the Qing River valley a few kilometres north of downtown Enshi. A new airport was put into operation on 28 November 1993 and replaced the earlier Enshi airfield. The airport was renamed Enshi Xujiaping International Airport on 7 March 2025, after it was approved as an international port of entry in November 2024.

The airport has one paved runway, 01/19, listed at 2,100 metres. A first expansion in 2003 was sized for 200,000 passengers a year. A second expansion, designed for 1.5 million passengers a year, opened on 9 August 2013. Traffic has since passed that design figure: the airport recorded 1,947,626 passengers, 16,650 aircraft movements and 2,492 tonnes of cargo in 2025.

Scheduled flights link Enshi with Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu and Xi'an, as well as Hong Kong. Seasonal international services include Bangkok and Hanoi. Carriers include China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Loong Air, Spring Airlines and Beijing Capital Airlines. Plans for a replacement airport, sized for 3.5 million passengers a year by 2030, are in development.