Hefei Xinqiao International Airport - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Hefei Xinqiao International Airport is a major airport being built to serve Hefei

Hefei

Hefei is the capital and largest city of Anhui Province in Eastern China. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, and cultural centre of Anhui...

, the capital city of Anhui Province, China

China

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. It is located near the town of Gaoliu in Feixi County

Feixi County

Feixi County is a county of Anhui Province, China. It is under the administration of Hefei city. The county has a surface of 2,053.19 km² and a population of 858,895 inhabitants.-References:...

, 31.8 kilometers from the city center. Construction started in December 2008 with a total investment of 3.728 billion yuan. When completed in 2012 it will replace Hefei Luogang International Airport

Hefei Luogang International Airport

Hefei Luogang International Airport is the main airport serving Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, China. The airport was built in 1977 and now a new airport, Hefei Xinqiao International Airport, is being built in Feixi County and will replace Luogang as Hefei's main airport when...

as Hefei's main airport.

Facilities

The current first phase of construction includes one runway which is 3,400 meters long and 45 meters wide (class 4E), and a 108,500 square-meter terminal building, to handle a projected annual volume of 11 million passengers and 150,000 tons of cargo by 2020. A second phase is being planned to handle 42 million passengers and 580,000 tons of cargo by 2040.

Facilities

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