Linfen Yaodu Airport

Linfen Yaodu Airport (IATA: LFQ, ICAO: ZBLF)^[3] is an airport serving the city of Linfen in Shanxi Province, China. It is located near the town of Qiaoli in Yaodu District, 15 kilometers from the city center. The airport was first built in 1958 and opened on 1 January 1960, but ceased operations in fall 1965.^[4] Construction started again in September 2010 to expand and reopen the airport with an investment of 446 million yuan, and it was originally projected to open in late 2011.^[2]

Linfen Yaodu Airport 临汾尧都机场
IATA: LFQ ICAO: ZBLF
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Linfen, Shanxi, China
Location	Qiaoli, Yaodu District, Shanxi
Opened	25 January 2016; 9 years ago (2016-01-25)
Built	1 January 1960; 65 years ago (1960-01-01)
Coordinates	36°7′54″N 111°39′29″E
Map
LFQ Location of airport in Shanxi
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 17/35 2,600 8,530
Statistics (2023[1])
Passengers 899,357 Aircraft movements 13,008 Cargo (metric tons) 873.4
Source:[2]

Linfen Yaodu Airport
Simplified Chinese	临汾尧都机场
Traditional Chinese	臨汾堯都機場
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Línfén Yáodū Jīchǎng

Linfen Airport opened to commercial traffic on 25 January 2016. The airport was formerly known as Linfen Qiaoli Airport (Chinese: 临汾乔李机场) until April 2020.^[5]

Facilities

The airport will have one runway that is 2,600 meters long and 45 meters wide, and a 4,200 square meter terminal building. It is projected to handle 430,000 passengers annually by 2020.^[2]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air China	Beijing–Capital, Wuhan
China Express Airlines	Chongqing, Guiyang,[6] Hohhot,[7] Nanchang,[8] Ordos,[6] Tianjin,[8] Yinchuan,[9] Zhengzhou[10]
China Southern Airlines	Guangzhou
Juneyao Air	Hangzhou, Nanjing,[11] Shanghai–Pudong
LJ Air	Changsha,[11] Dalian,[11] Harbin,[12] Hohhot,[7] Shenzhen[7]
Sichuan Airlines	Changchun, Chengdu–Tianfu,[13] Kunming

See also

• List of airports in China
• List of the busiest airports in China