Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport

Guiyang Longdongbao International is the principal airport of Guizhou Province in southwestern China, handling roughly 19M passengers (2024) from a mountain-plateau site 11 km (7 mi) southeast of central Guiyang at 3,736 ft (1,139 m) elevation — one of the highest-altitude major airports in eastern China and a technically demanding site carved out of the karst topography that defines the province. KWE serves a catchment of roughly 40 million people across Guizhou and neighboring regions and is a rapidly growing secondary hub in China's western-development strategy. China Southern, China Eastern, Air China, Hainan Airlines, XiamenAir, Juneyao, and the Chinese low-cost operators all fly substantial schedules, with Colorful Guizhou Airlines — the province's home-based regional carrier — running its primary base here. International service is limited but growing, with routes to Bangkok, Singapore, Seoul-Incheon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and seasonal Southeast Asian points. The route network reaches 95 destinations across 38 airlines, almost entirely domestic China-China flows tied to the province's tourism economy (Huangguoshu Waterfall, Libo, Zhaoxing Dong villages) and its role as a big-data industry cluster anchored by the national facilities of Apple, Tencent, and Huawei. Two parallel runways — 01R/19L at 13,123 ft (4,000 m) and 01L/19R at 10,499 ft (3,200 m) — handle traffic at Terminals 1, 2, and 3. The original Terminal 2 opened in 2012 with 180,000 sqm (1.9M sqft); a Terminal 3 expansion and second runway delivered in stages through 2021 lifted capacity toward 30M annual passengers. A Phase III expansion under construction through 2030 will add a third runway and a 450,000 sqm (4.8M sqft) satellite terminal targeting 50M capacity, consolidating KWE's status as one of the fastest-growing airports in western China.