ZSWX Sunan Shuofang International Airport IFR

  • Name
    Sunan Shuofang International Airport
  • ICAO / IATA / GPS
    ZSWX / WUX / ZSWX
  • Type
  • Restriction
  • Region
  • Timezone
    8:16 pm (CST)
  • Municipality
    Wuxi
  • Coordinates
    31° 29′ 39″ N 120° 25′ 44″ E
  • Elevation
    16 ft (5 m MSL)

About Sunan Shuofang International Airport

Sunan Shuofang International Airport (IATA: WUX, ICAO: ZSWX), also known as Wuxi Shuofang Airport, is an airport serving the cities of Wuxi and Suzhou in East China’s Jiangsu province. It is located in the southeast of Shuofang, Xinwu District, Wuxi City, and adjacent to Wangting, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou City in the south; it is 16 kilometres from Wuxi downtown in the northwest and 2 kilometres from the Wuxi New District, and 20 kilometres from Suzhou downtown in the southeast and 5 kilometres from the Suzhou New District. The airport is a civilian-military dual-use airport.

The airport was built in 1955 for military use, and commercial flights only started in 2004. In 2019, the airport handled 7.97 million passengers and 145,000 tons of cargo and mail, ranking 42nd and 22nd in terms of business volume among civil aviation airports in China. The airport is the second largest in Jiangsu Province and the only profitable among the nine airports in Jiangsu Province except Nanjing Lukou Airport. The airport currently has two terminals, 23 boarding gates (T1 Terminal Building 1-12, T2 Terminal Building 13-23), 26 parking spaces (new parking spaces are currently under construction), and the flight runway is 3,200 meters long, the airport flight area level is 4E according to the Chinese standard.

In May 2023, the airport cargo hub station building and part of the supporting second runway taxiway project officially started, which also marked the official start of the airport expansion.

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