Huahu Airport took the lead in opening 9 navigation points on 7 passenger routes from Ezhou to Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Chengdu, Chongqing, Qingdao, Kunming and Ningbo.
Freight mainly, supplemented by passenger transport.
Ezhou Huahu Airport is designed to meet the requirements of passengers 1 10,000 passengers and cargo and mail throughput of 2.45 million tons in 2025. The airport operation guarantee level is 4E. At this stage, two long-distance parallel runways and taxiway systems will be built, with a runway length of 3,600 meters and a runway spacing of 1.900 meters. A freight forwarding center with an area of nearly 700,000 square meters, a wharf with an area of 1.5 million square meters, and 1.24 parking spaces will be built.
The airport will give priority to cargo transportation, supplemented by passenger transportation, bid for Memphis Airport in the United States, and open about 10 international cargo routes and about 50 domestic routes one after another, gradually becoming a world-class air cargo hub, and strive to build a new logistics highland in China and even the Asia-Pacific region.
The first passenger plane flew to Beijing
China Southern Airlines will open a passenger route from Ezhou to Beijing Daxing from today, which will be the first passenger flight on the day when Ezhou Huahu Airport is put into operation. Ezhou Huahu Airport was flown by China Southern Airlines B738 on the first flight day. From July 18, there will be a round-trip flight from Ezhou to Beijing every day.