Chengdu Tianfu International Airport
Airport serving Chengdu, Sichuan, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (IATA: TFU, ICAO: ZUTF; abbreviated as Tianfu Airport) is one of two international airports serving Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwestern China.
Chengdu Tianfu International Airport 成都天府国际机场 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Sichuan Provincial Airport Group | ||||||||||||||||||
Serves | Chengdu | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Lujia, Jianyang, Chengdu, Sichuan, China | ||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 27 June 2021; 2 years ago (2021-06-27) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 440 m / 1,444 ft | ||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 30.319°N 104.445°E / 30.319; 104.445 | ||||||||||||||||||
Website | sctfia.com | ||||||||||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 成都天府国际机场 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 成都天府國際機場 | ||||||
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The airport is located at Lujia Town, Jianyang, Chengdu, 51 kilometers (32 mi) southeast of Downtown Chengdu. It is named after the Tianfu New Area, a development zone for Chengdu in which the airport is.[3] Construction began in May 2016 and the airport opened on 27 June 2021.
In 2023, both Chengdu Tianfu International Airport and Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport handled a total of 538,000 flight takeoffs and landings, with a passenger volume of 74.924 million. The annual passenger volume makes Chengdu 3rd among the cities with airport systems in China.[4] Chengdu Tianfu International Airport alone ranks 39th between the busiest airports in the world, the fifth-busiest in China when ranked by passenger traffic (44,786,101 passengers in 2023 alone).