Sanya Phoenix International Airport is an airport serving the city of

Sanya Sanya (; also spelled Samah) is the southernmost city on Hainan Island, and one of the four prefecture-level cities of Hainan Province in South China. According to the 2020 census, the total population of Sanya was 1,031,396 inhabitants, li ...

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, the southernmost province of China. It is located about northwest of the city center. Sanya Phoenix International Airport is a main airport hub and comprises close to ten thousand acres. The runway is about long and wide, which satisfies the take off and landing requirements of a fully weighted

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or other large aircraft. It is the second busiest airport in Hainan, the busiest being

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. However, it was the first airport in Hainan to launch transcontinental air service, when Transaero Airlines started operating non-stop to Sanya from

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as early as 2007. The service was discontinued after Transaero ceased operations in 2015. Since 2017, several

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n airlines including

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, Alrosa and

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have begun operating from various Russian cities, fueling the growth of tourism from Russia in Hainan. In 2017, it was the 20th busiest airport in China.

Airlines and destinations

Sanya Phoenix International Airport (SYX)

Ground transportation connections

Sanya Phoenix Airport Railway Station of the

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, opened on 30 December 2015, is located just north of the airport. Initially, it connects on the Sanya Railway Station on the Hainan Eastern Ring High-Speed Railway (10 km to the east),西环高铁凤三段计划2014年建成
(The Sanya to Fenghuang Airport section of the Western Ring High-Speed Railway is planned to be completed in 2014), 13 December 2012 and provides frequent high-speed rail service to a number of points along Hainan's eastern coast. With the construction of the rest of the

, from Sanya Phoenix Airport to

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, rail service from Sanya Station become available to stations on the island's west coast as well.

References

External links

Official website
{{authority control Airports in Hainan Sanya

Airlines and destinations

Ground transportation connections

See also

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