Wuhan Tianhe International Airport guide

Wuhan Tianhe International Airport opened on 15 April 1995 and serves the capital of Hubei province in central China. It lies about 26 km north of the city centre. China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines operate hubs here, and Air China runs a focus city. The airport handled 31,339,277 passengers in 2025, which made it the 14th busiest in China by passenger traffic.

The airport has three runways. A third runway, 3,200 m long, came out of an expansion that began in 2022 and finished in early 2025. Cargo throughput reached 179,668.7 metric tonnes in 2025, up 3.8 percent on the year before. A fixed-base operator has handled charter and VIP flights since 2019.

Terminal 3 opened on 31 August 2017 and handles both international and domestic traffic, with capacity for 35 million passengers a year. The older Terminal 2 closed when Terminal 3 opened and reopened on 15 April 2024 for domestic flights, with a design capacity of 13 million passengers. Wuhan Metro Line 2 and the Wuhan-Xiaogan intercity railway both serve Terminal 3. The S18 Wuhan Airport Expressway and the S19 Wuhan Airport 2nd Expressway link the airport to the city.