Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport
Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport 厦门高崎国际机场 | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Xiamen International Airport Group Co., Ltd. (XIAGC) | ||||||||||
| Serves | Xiamen | ||||||||||
| Location | Huli, Xiamen, Fujian, China | ||||||||||
| Opened | 22 October 1983 | ||||||||||
| Hub for | XiamenAir | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 18 m / 59 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 24°32′39″N 118°07′40″E / 24.54417°N 118.12778°E | ||||||||||
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XMN/ZSAM Location in Fujian XMN/ZSAM Location in China | |||||||||||
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| Source: List of the busiest airports in the People's Republic of China | |||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 厦门高崎国际机场 | ||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 廈門高崎國際機場 | ||||||||||||
| Hokkien POJ | Ē-mn̂g Kò-kiâ Kok-chè Ki-tiû | ||||||||||||
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Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport (IATA: XMN, ICAO: ZSAM) is an international airport serving the city of Xiamen in East China's Fujian province. It is the main airline hub for XiamenAir and TAECO, an aircraft maintenance provider. It is located on the north side of Xiamen Island, 10 km (6.2 mi) away from the city's downtown area. It was originally built by Imperial Japan during their occupation of China, and was later converted to exclusive civilian use once the Japanese surrendered World War II. A couple of renovations were made in the early- to mid-1950s under the Communist government, but the airport laid abandoned until after a second renovation in 1955 due to fears of shelling from the nearby Kinmen Island of the Nationalists.
In 1983, the airport re-opened with funding from the Kuwait Fund for further renovations and construction, and over the next decade passenger traffic rapidly increased so that it warranted the construction of Terminal 2 in 1993. In 1996, Terminal 3 was opened. Terminal 1 was demolished in 2012, and at the same time, Terminal 2 became the domestic area for Terminal 3. Construction of Terminal 4 started in October 2011 and was completed in 2014.
In 2025, Gaoqi Airport was listed as the 14th busiest airport in China in terms of cargo traffic, and the 16th busiest in terms of passenger traffic with 29,193,712 passengers, and the 17th busiest airport by traffic movements.
In late 2026, the airport will cease all civilian traffic once Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport is completed and commences operations.