Hanzhong Chenggu Airport guide

Hanzhong Chenggu Airport serves Hanzhong in southwestern Shaanxi province. It sits in Liulin Town, Chenggu County, on the Han River plain north of the Qinling Mountains, and handles civil flights alongside a military air base.

The airport opened to passengers on 13 August 2014 and replaced Hanzhong Xiguan Airport, which was too close to the city centre to expand. The conversion of the former military field to dual use began in December 2011 with an estimated budget of 580 million yuan. The site has a longer aviation history: construction of a military airfield started in 1944, and the field later served the PLA Air Force and the Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation as a test airport.

A single concrete runway, 2,500 metres long, takes narrowbody jets. The terminal covers about 5,000 square metres and was designed for 300,000 passengers and 1,300 tonnes of cargo a year. Traffic passed that design figure: the airport recorded 409,731 passengers, 13,528 aircraft movements and 1,056 tonnes of cargo in 2021.

All scheduled services are domestic. Carriers link Hanzhong with Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Kunming and several other Chinese cities.