Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 14 m / 46 ft Elevation 14 m Phone +86 591 96363 | Code FOC | |
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Operator Xiamen International Airport Group | ||
Taking off from fuzhou changle international airport
Fuzhou Changle International Airport (IATA: FOC, ICAO: ZSFZ) is an airport serving Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province, China. The airport was inaugurated on June 23, 1997, after being approved to start constructing in 1992. The current handling capacity is approximately 6.5 million people annually.
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The airport is located near the shore of the Taiwan Strait in Zhanggang Subdistrict, Changle, about 50 km (31 mi) east of Fuzhou's city center.
In 2010, Fuzhou airport handled 6,476,773 passengers. It was 25th busiest airport in China. In addition, in 2009 the airport was the 22nd busiest airport in terms of cargo traffic and the 25th busiest airport by traffic movements.
History
Changle Airport was built to replace the old Fuzhou Yixu Airport(福州义序机场), a dual-use military and civil airport located in Cangshan District, and prepared for the base of the direct flights to Taiwan across the straits. The airport was designed by Singaporean RSP Architects Planners & Engineers Pte Ltd. The government of Fujian province hoped that the new airport could reach the standard of Singapore Changi Airport, but they soon realized it was too big, and shrank the scale of the airport. However, the scale of the airport was still much bigger than the norm that central government approved. Changle Airport was opened in 1997. Due to the lack of Passenger flow, the airport had a great deficit in early years of operation. In 2003, the management of the airport was taken over by Xiamen International Airport Group, and began profiting from 2005.
The highway linking the airport to the downtown Changle was opened on November 18th 2006. The highway linking to downtown Fuzhou was completed in 2010.
The airport opened its international flights to Singapore and Osaka on November 2003.
The airport opened its first direct flight to Taiwan's Taipei on December 2008.
Fuzhou Airlines was formally founded on October 2014, which is headquartered in Changle Airport.