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Boeing 787 of Xiamen Airlines at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport

Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport is the airport serving the city of

Xiamen Xiamen ( , ; ), also known as Amoy (, from Hokkien pronunciation ), is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Strait. It is divided into six districts: Huli, Siming, Jimei, Tong' ...

Fujian Province Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its ...

, China. It is the main base of XiamenAir and TAECO, an aircraft maintenance provider. The airport is located on the north side of

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. Construction of a new terminal (Terminal 4) started in October 2011 and was completed in 2014. In 2012, Xiamen airport was the 8th busiest airport in China in terms of cargo traffic, and the 11th busiest in terms of passenger traffic with 17,354,076 passengers and the 10th busiest airport by traffic movements.

Development

New destinations

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began the first intercontinental air route out of Xiamen, to

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, on 27 March 2011. Since then, long-haul traffic has expanded, with XiamenAir launching flights to

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and

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after taking delivery of the

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New airport

Following the opening of Terminal 4 in 2014, Gaoqi airport had little room to expand. As such, a new airport is currently under construction on Dadeng Island, Xiang'an District, currently known as Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport. When completed it will have two new runways, a 550,000 sq meter terminal, and be able to handle up to 45 million passengers, and have subway links to Xiamen railway station.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

References

External links

Official site
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