Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport Terminal 3Aerial view of Xiamen Island. Gaoqi Airport can be seen in the bottom left of the island.Baggage Claim Area of T4 in 2017Boeing 787 of Xiamen Airlines 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 base of
XiamenAir and TAECO, an aircraft maintenance provider. The airport is located on the north side of
Xiamen Island. Construction of a new terminal (Terminal 4) started in October 2011 and was completed in 2014.[2]
In 2012, Xiamen airport was the
8th busiest airport in China in terms of cargo traffic, and the
11th busiest in terms of passenger traffic with 17,354,076 passengers and the
10th busiest airport by traffic movements.
Development
New destinations
KLM began the first intercontinental air route out of Xiamen, to
Amsterdam, on 27 March 2011.[3] Since then, long-haul traffic has expanded, with XiamenAir launching flights to
Sydney,
Vancouver and
Los Angeles after taking delivery of the
Boeing 787.
New airport
Following the opening of Terminal 4 in 2014, Gaoqi airport had little room to expand. As such, a new airport is currently under construction on Dadeng Island, Xiang'an District, currently known as
Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport. When completed it will have two new runways, a 550,000 sq meter terminal, and be able to handle up to 45 million passengers, and have subway links to
Xiamen railway station.[4][5]