Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport

"Xiamen Airport" redirects here. For the new airport under construction, see Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport.

Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport
厦门高崎国际机场
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorXiamen International Airport Group Co., Ltd. (XIAGC)
ServesXiamen
LocationHuli, Xiamen, Fujian, China
Opened22 October 1983; 42 years ago (1983-10-22)
Hub forXiamenAir
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL18 m / 59 ft
Coordinates24°32′39″N 118°07′40″E / 24.54417°N 118.12778°E / 24.54417; 118.12778
Maps
CAAC airport chart
CAAC airport chart
XMN/ZSAM is located in Fujian
XMN/ZSAM
XMN/ZSAM
Location in Fujian
XMN/ZSAM is located in China
XMN/ZSAM
XMN/ZSAM
Location in China
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 3,400 11,155 Asphalt
Statistics (2025[2])
Passengers29,193,712
Aircraft movements198,582
Cargo377,213.6
Source: List of the busiest airports in the People's Republic of China
Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport
Simplified Chinese厦门高崎国际机场
Traditional Chinese廈門高崎國際機場
Hokkien POJĒ-mn̂g Kò-kiâ Kok-chè Ki-tiû
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXiàmén Gāoqí Guójì Jīchǎng
Wade–GilesHsia4-mên2 Kao1-ch'i2 Kuo2-chi4 Chi1-ch'ang2
Southern Min
Hokkien POJĒ-mn̂g Kò-kiâ Kok-chè Ki-tiû
Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport Terminal 3
Aerial view of Xiamen Island. Gaoqi Airport can be seen in the bottom left of the island.
Baggage claim area of T4 in 2017
Boeing 787 of XiamenAir at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport

Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport (IATA: XMN, ICAO: ZSAM) is an international airport serving the city of Xiamen in East China's Fujian province. It is the main airline hub for XiamenAir and TAECO, an aircraft maintenance provider. It is located on the north side of Xiamen Island, 10 km (6.2 mi) away from the city's downtown area. It was originally built by Imperial Japan during their occupation of China, and was later converted to exclusive civilian use once the Japanese surrendered World War II. A couple of renovations were made in the early- to mid-1950s under the Communist government, but the airport laid abandoned until after a second renovation in 1955 due to fears of shelling from the nearby Kinmen Island of the Nationalists.

In 1983, the airport re-opened with funding from the Kuwait Fund for further renovations and construction, and over the next decade passenger traffic rapidly increased so that it warranted the construction of Terminal 2 in 1993. In 1996, Terminal 3 was opened. Terminal 1 was demolished in 2012, and at the same time, Terminal 2 became the domestic area for Terminal 3. Construction of Terminal 4 started in October 2011 and was completed in 2014.[3]

In 2025, Gaoqi Airport was listed as the 14th busiest airport in China in terms of cargo traffic, and the 16th busiest in terms of passenger traffic with 29,193,712 passengers, and the 17th busiest airport by traffic movements.

In late 2026, the airport will cease all civilian traffic once Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport is completed and commences operations.

History

Early history

While Imperial Japan occupied Xiamen during World War II in 1941, they constructed the airport east of Gaoqi Village as a military airfield to defend against the U.S. military. It concurrently also served scheduled flights between Xiamen and Taipei, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong. After the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the airport was reclaimed by the Nationalist government, who converted it for civilian use. It was now under the management of the Xiamen office of the Civil Aviation Administration. In February of 1949, the management was transferred to the Republic of China Air Force who established the 242nd Supply Squadron to manage the airport. On 24 August that year, the last plane departed the airport carrying high-ranking Nationalist officials en route to Taipei before it shut down due to the People's Liberation Army occupying the area.[citation needed]

After the PLA occupied mainland China, the airport underwent maintenance and expansion to prepare for military operations against Taiwan, which was completed in 1952. In 1955, it underwent a second renovation. However, due to the airport being close to the attack radius of Kinmen Island, the airport never reopened, and henceforth was left abandoned.[4]

Current airport

In 1982, the airport received a loan of the equivalent of 21 million U.S. Dollars from the Kuwait Fund to fund the expansion with the assistance of the then-director of the National Development and Reform Commission Jiang Zemin. The expansion commenced on January of 1982, and the airport was re-opened on 22 October 1983 as the first airport in China to be built with foreign funding and managed by a local government.[5]

Once the airport was re-opened, Terminal 1 officially commenced operations with CAAC flight 265 bound for Shanghai being the first flight to take off, to massive fanfare.[6] In April of 1987, after the airport completed a 550 m (1,800 ft) extension via land reclamation, the total length of the runway became 2,700 m (8,900 ft).[citation needed] In October of 1993, Terminal 2 was built and opened to alleviate passenger traffic of Terminal 1. On 8 November 1996, Terminal 3 was opened, becoming the largest and the most state-of-the-art passenger air terminal in China at the time.[7]

On 5 May 2012, the renovated Terminal 2 was re-opened as a section of Terminal 3 to serve domestic flights, with Terminal 1 being demolished and the area being turned into parking space.[8] On 8 December 2014, the airport surpassed the 20 million passenger throughput threshold.[9] On 28 December 2014, Terminal 4 was opened, rendering the airport capable of operating with two terminals.[10]

At 2:00 a.m. local time on 4 December 2017, an Air France A380 became the first of its type to land at Xiamen, with the reason being for maintenance being performed by TAECO.[11]

To prevent the spread of inbound COVID-19 cases from abroad, the second international/Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan arrival area located in the former Terminal 2 commenced operations on 23 October 2021 to manage arriving passengers from the given areas. It has seven sections: the customs epidemiological investigation area, sampling area, disinfection area, symptomatic medical screening area, border inspection hall, baggage claim and inspection area, and logistics office area. It also features an independent partitioned air conditioning system.[12] The border inspection area is divided into two sections: passengers requiring medical attention or transfer are inspected in a dedicated inspection room on the second floor; normal passengers complete entry procedures in the inspection hall on the first floor. The waiting and inspection halls cover approximately 700 m2 (7,500 sq ft) and has 12 manual inspection areas and one staff-only inspection area, all equipped with intelligent verification desks, translation machines, and intelligent gate systems.[13] At 6:00 a.m. on 8 January 2023, the arrival area ceased operations. Simultaneously, the international/Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan arrival area at Terminal 3 resumed operations, and all flights and passengers from the given areas proceed there for immigration and customs.[14]

New destinations

KLM began the first intercontinental route out of Xiamen, to Amsterdam, on 27 March 2011.[15] Since then, long-haul traffic has expanded, with XiamenAir launching flights to Amsterdam, Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Paris, Doha and Malé after taking delivery of the Boeing 787.

New airport and closure

Following the opening of Terminal 4, Gaoqi Airport can no longer expand. For this reason, a new airport is currently under construction on Dadeng Island, Xiang'an District, currently known as Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport. When completed in late 2026, it will have two new runways, a 550,000 m2 (140 acres) terminal, and be able to handle up to 45 million passengers, and have subway links to the Xiamen Railway Station.[16][17] Gaoqi Airport will cease all civilian operations once Xiang'an Airport opens.[18]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
9 Air Guiyang
Aero Dili Dili[19]
Air Chang'an Ezhou,[20] Xi'an, Xinyang[21]
Air China Beijing–Capital, Beijing–Daxing, Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chengdu–Tianfu, Chongqing, Guiyang, Tianjin, Wuhan, Zhengzhou
Air Guilin Guilin[22]
Air Macau Macau
Batik Air Malaysia Kuala Lumpur–International[23]
Beijing Capital Airlines Beijing–Daxing, Huangshan, Lijiang,[24] Shenyang,[25] Urumqi, Xi'an, Zhengzhou
Cathay Pacific Hong Kong[26]
Chengdu Airlines Chengdu—Shuangliu,[27] Chengdu–Tianfu, Jinggangshan
China Eastern Airlines Beijing–Daxing, Changzhou, Chengdu–Tianfu,[28] Hefei, Kunming, Lanzhou,[29] Nanjing, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong,[30] Shiyan, Taiyuan, Wuhan, Wuxi, Xi'an, Yantai,[31] Yulin (Shaanxi),[32] Zhengzhou,[29] Zhoushan[31]
China Express Airlines Xi'an,[33] Xiangyang[33]
China Southern Airlines Beijing–Daxing, Dalian, Enshi, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Harbin, Nanning, Shenyang, Urumqi, Weihai, Wuhan, Zhengzhou
China United Airlines Beijing–Daxing, Shijiazhuang[34]
Chongqing Airlines Changsha,[35] Chongqing[35]
Dalian Airlines Beijing–Capital[36]
Fuzhou Airlines Hami,[37] Harbin,[38] Zhengzhou,[37] Zhoushan[38]
GX Airlines Nanning[39]
Hainan Airlines Beijing–Capital, Changsha, Chongqing, Haikou, Harbin, Hefei, Lanzhou, Shenyang, Taiyuan, Ürümqi, Wuhan, Xi'an, Yan'an, Zhengzhou
Hebei Airlines Hohhot,[40] Shijiazhuang
Jiangxi Air Nanchang, Zhengzhou[41]
Juneyao Airlines Nanjing, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong
Korean Air Seoul–Incheon[42][43]
Kunming Airlines Kunming
Lucky Air Chengdu–Tianfu,[44] Kunming
Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur–International[45]
Mandarin Airlines Kaohsiung, Taipei–Taoyuan
Okay Airways Changsha
Philippine Airlines Manila
Shandong Airlines Baotou, Beijing–Capital, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chengdu–Tianfu,[46] Chongqing, Dalian, Dongying, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou,[47] Hangzhou, Harbin, Hohhot, Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta,[48] Jinan, Jingdezhen, Kunming, Lanzhou, Linyi, Nanjing, Qingdao, Rizhao, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shenyang, Shiyan,[49] Taiyuan, Tianjin, Ürümqi, Wuhan, Xi'an, Xuzhou,[50] Yantai, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou, Zhoushan
Shanghai Airlines Shanghai–Hongqiao
Shenzhen Airlines Harbin, Nantong, Shenyang,[51] Yangzhou
Sichuan Airlines Changsha, Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chengdu–Tianfu, Chongqing, Kunming
Singapore Airlines Singapore[52][53]
Spring Airlines Bangkok–Don Mueang, Changchun, Handan, Lanzhou, Osaka–Kansai,[54] Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shenyang, Shijiazhuang, Yangzhou
Sky Angkor Airlines Sihanoukville[55]
Tianjin Airlines Anqing,[56] Chizhou,[57] Dalian,[56] Haikou,[58] Urumqi,[58] Weihai,[58] Xi'an, Yichang,[59] Yueyang,[58] Yulin (Shaanxi),[32] Zunyi–Xinzhou
Tibet Airlines Chengdu–Shuangliu
Uni Air Taipei–Songshan
West Air Chongqing, Zhengzhou[60]
XiamenAir Amsterdam, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Beijing–Daxing, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu–Tianfu, Chongqing, Dalian, Denpasar, Doha,[61] Fuzhou,[62] Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Harbin, Hefei, Hengyang, Ho Chi Minh City, Hohhot, Hong Kong, Huai'an,[63] Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta, Jinan, Jingzhou,[64] Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur–International, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Lianyungang, Lijiang, Liuzhou, Los Angeles, Luzhou, Macau, Malé,[65] Manila, Melbourne, Mianyang, Nanchong, Nanjing, Nanning, Ningbo, Osaka–Kansai, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Penang,[66] Phnom Penh,[67] Qingdao, Sanya, Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei–Songshan, Taipei–Taoyuan, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Tokyo–Narita,[68] Ürümqi, Vancouver, Wanzhou, Wenzhou,[69] Wuhan, Wuyishan, Xi'an, Xinzhou, Xishuangbanna,[70] Yancheng, Yangon, Yinchuan, Yuncheng, Zhengzhou, Zhoushan, Zhuhai, Zunyi–Maotai

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
ANA Cargo Tokyo–Narita
Cargolux Beijing–Capital, Luxembourg
Cathay Cargo Hong Kong, Shanghai–Pudong
Central Airlines Paris–Charles de Gaulle
China Cargo Airlines Osaka–Kansai
Ethiopian Cargo São Paulo–Guarulhos[71]
Hong Kong Air Cargo Hong Kong, Shanghai–Pudong
Korean Air Cargo Seoul–Incheon
MSC Air Cargo[72] Anchorage, Seoul–Incheon
Suparna Airlines Cargo Clark, Shanghai–Pudong

See also

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