Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport

Jinan Yaoqiang International is the principal airport of Shandong Province's capital and a significant regional node in the dense eastern China air network. Located about 33 km (21 mi) northeast of Jinan's city center at an elevation of 76 ft (23 m), TNA serves a metropolitan area of over 9M people and the wider Shandong hinterland, a province of more than 100M residents — one of the most populous sub-national units in the world. The airport handled roughly 18M passengers in 2024, placing it in the upper tier of Chinese secondary airports behind the coastal megahubs of Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Shandong Airlines bases its fleet here and is the dominant domestic operator, with Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern providing extensive trunk service to Beijing Capital, Shanghai Hongqiao/Pudong, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Shenzhen. International reach is regional but growing: scheduled routes reach Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taipei, supported by 32 carriers and 186 scheduled routes to 85 destinations. A single 11,812 ft (3,600 m) concrete runway (01/19) serves the site, flanked by a T1 terminal building that has been continuously expanded; a second terminal and a parallel runway are under construction as part of a capacity program targeting 80M passengers annually by the early 2030s. TNA is also directly integrated into the Chinese high-speed rail network via Jinan Metro Line 3, making it one of the few Chinese second-tier airports with same-station metro connectivity, a considerable advantage for a province whose economic core is strung along the Qingdao–Jinan corridor.