Yantai Penglai International Airport is an airport serving the city of
Yantai
Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao on the ...
in
Shandong
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Province, China. It is located from the city center, near the town of Chaoshui in
Penglai, a
county-level city
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administered by Yantai.
Construction officially started on 26 December 2009,
and the airport was opened on 28 May 2015, when all flights serving Yantai were transferred from the old
Laishan Airport. The first flight,
China Eastern Airlines
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MU5136, landed at the airport from
Beijing
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at 00:05 on 28 May.
[ Originally called Yantai Chaoshui International Airport (), the airport adopted the current name in April 2014.]
Facilities
The airport has a runway that is 3,400 meters long and 45 meters wide (class 4D), and an 80,000 square-meter terminal building. It is projected to serve 12 million passengers and 90,000 tons of cargo annually by 2020.
Airlines and destinations