Chengdu Tianfu International Airport
Lujia Town, People's Republic of China
Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (IATA: TFU, ICAO: ZUTF, also known as Tianfu Airport) is one of two international airports serving Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwestern China. It was planned in 2013 and opened in 2021, after Chengdu Shuangliu Airport had been exceeding its designed maximum passenger capacity for years. The airport is located at Lujia Town of Jianyang, 51 km (32 mi) southeast of downtown Chengdu. The construction of this airport began in May 2016, and the airport opened in June 2021. Chengdu is the third city in China to have dual international airports after Beijing and Shanghai. In 2023, Chengdu Tianfu International Airport and Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport together 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. Chengdu Tianfu International Airport alone ranks 29th-busiest in the world and the fifth-busiest in China by passenger traffic (44, 786, 101 passengers in 2023).
Airport data from the OpenFlights open database.