Yichang Sanxia Airport guide

Yichang Sanxia International Airport opened to traffic on 28 December 1996. Its first flight was a Boeing 737 to Beijing. The State Council and the Central Military Commission approved the project in January 1993, and construction ran from September 1994 until the airport passed completion acceptance in October 1996. It added "International" to its name on 17 April 2024.

The airport has a single concrete runway, 14/32, extended to 3,200 metres in February 2022. It sits at 205 metres elevation and is classed as a 4D regional international airport. In 2025 it handled 3,406,149 passengers, 76,344 aircraft movements and 13,324.6 metric tons of cargo.

Most services are domestic, with Air China, China Eastern, China Southern, Hainan Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines among the carriers. International routes include Seoul Incheon with Jin Air, Hong Kong with Greater Bay Airlines and Kuala Lumpur with Air Changan. Yakutia Airlines flies seasonal charters to Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. The airport lies on the Yangtze River gateway to the Three Gorges region, which accounts for its name.