Shenyang Taoxian International Airport is an airport serving Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province. It is located about south of the city center in

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and is the 23rd busiest airport in China with 19,027,398 passengers as of 2018. Lufthansa offered the first intercontinental service out of Shenyang, to

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, Germany, in April 2012 but discontinued it on 28 October 2016 before relaunching it on 27 March 2018. Later in 2012, Sichuan Airlines launched service to

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History

Construction started on 1 July 1985, and the airport opened on 16 April 1989, and was the main hub of

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, which started operating a year later. Before the airport existed, , was the main airport of Shenyang, built in 1921, served destinations to

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, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and hence, domestically. However, although it was expanded several times and having a long enough runway to support narrow-body airliners, it is no longer able to accommodate more tourists and passengers, as because of the

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, passenger tourists, whether local or foreign, were rising steeply. As a result, Taoxian airport was built and opened on 1989 and Dongta Airport ceased civil operations, and reverted to military use (by the Inperial Japanese 1936 to 1945 and

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after 1950) until 2013.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

Ground transportation

The airport is served by the Shenyang Tram line 2 and line 6.

References

External links

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Official web site
{{authority control Airports in Liaoning Transport in Shenyang Airports established in 1989