Wenzhou Longwan International Airport

Wenzhou Longwan International Airport serves the port city of Wenzhou in southeastern Zhejiang province — a coastal manufacturing and light-industrial center known for its distinctive entrepreneurial economy and one of China's largest overseas diaspora communities, particularly in Italy, France, and Spain. Located on the coast 13 mi (21 km) east of downtown Wenzhou at just 13 ft (4 m) elevation, WNZ handles 161 routes across 71 destinations through 33 airlines and operates at the scale of a significant secondary Chinese provincial airport with a passenger throughput around 13M annually. No single airline dominates WNZ at hub scale. China Eastern (whose Shanghai hubs are roughly 250 mi / 400 km north), China Southern, Air China, Hainan, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Juneyao, and Spring Airlines all operate significant daily service. International routes concentrate on Southeast and East Asia — Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Phuket, Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka — with particularly dense Bangkok connectivity reflecting the Wenzhou diaspora's business and leisure ties. Charter service to Italy has historically operated intermittently to serve the very large Wenzhou-origin community in the Prato region of Tuscany. The single concrete runway (03/21) measures 10,499 ft (3,200 m), handling all narrowbody traffic and widebody operations up to 787 and A330. A second runway and a new T3 terminal expansion are under construction as part of Wenzhou's master plan to raise annual capacity toward 30M by 2030. The airport benefits from direct high-speed rail-adjacent metro integration, which is unusual among mid-sized Chinese provincial airports and makes WNZ one of the more accessible secondary gateways in Yangtze River Delta aviation. Its coastal site 100 nmi (185 km) south of Shanghai positions it as a relief option for Shanghai Pudong and Hangzhou during congestion.