Xuzhou Guanyin International Airport (IATA:XUZ,ICAO:ZSXZ) is an airport serving the city ofXuzhou inEast China’sJiangsu province. As of 2016, it isthe 62nd busiest civil airport in China. Located about 45 km (28 mi) from the downtown area in the southeast outskirts of the city, the airport has two terminal buildings.
Xuzhou airport was opened on November 8, 1997,[3][failed verification] consisting of a 20,000-square-metre (220,000 sq ft) terminal building and 3,400-metre (11,200 ft) runway. The construction cost was estimated at $105 million, with most of the cost provided by the Xuzhou municipal government.[4]
The inauguration of Terminal 2 was on June 8, 2018. With 34,000 square meters of space, the new terminal has 8jet bridges, 20 check-in counters, 10 automated check-in machines, 10 security checkpoints and more than 1,312 seats.[5] With this new facility, the airport can handle another 5 million passengers and 50,000 metric tons of cargo every year.[5] It also adds anatural gas energy system, used to provide refrigeration, heating, and partial power.
Since the opening of Terminal 2, it has been exclusively used for domestic flights, while regional international flights use Terminal 1.[5]
^abcWang, Zhenxing; Zhang, Yun (June 7, 2018).徐州观音机场T2航站楼将正式启用 [Xuzhou Guanyin Airport Terminal 2 will be officially opened].news.carnoc.com (in Chinese (China)). Civil Aviation Resource Network of China. Archived fromthe original on September 14, 2018. RetrievedSeptember 14, 2018.