Qionghai Bo'ao International Airport 琼海博鳌国际机场 | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Serves | Qionghai, Hainan | ||||||||||
Location | Zhongyuan, Qionghai | ||||||||||
Opened | 17 March 2016 | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 19°8′26″N110°27′32″E / 19.14056°N 110.45889°E | ||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 琼海博鳌国际机场 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 瓊海博鰲國際機場 | ||||||
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Qionghai Bo'ao International Airport( IATA :BAR, ICAO :ZJQH) is an airport serving the city of Qionghai,Hainan,China. The airport received the approval for establishment from the national government in January 2013, [2] [3] and was opened in March 2016 after three years of construction. [4] It was approved to be an international airport and was thus renamed in April 2024. [5]
The Qionghai airport was built to facilitate travel to the Boao Forum for Asia,an annual political event held 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) away in Boao. [6] [7] The airport also serves rising tourism to the province of Hainan. [7] A feasibility study on the airport was approved by government officials in December 2012, [8] followed by the master plan in May 2013. [9] A groundbreaking ceremony was held on 17 March 2015. [6]
After a test flight in March 2016, [10] the airport received its first commercial flight – a Hainan Airlines Boeing 737 from Beijing – on 17 March 2016. [11] For a short period thereafter,the airport remained open to domestic charter flights carrying Boao Forum attendees. [12] [13] After the forum,the Qionghai airport closed so that a new international terminal and a 600-metre (2,000 ft) runway extension could be completed before the next forum. The airport reopened on 29 December 2016,receiving an Air Guilin flight from Guilin. [13]
The airport was approved to be an international airport and was renamed "Qionghai Bo'ao International Airport" in April 2024. [5]
Qionghai Airport has a 3,200-meter runway capable of handling large jet aircraft,a 9,000 square-meter terminal building,and 26 aircraft parking aprons. It is designed to handle 480,000 passengers and 1,440 tons of cargo annually by 2020. [2] [3]
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