
Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport (IATA: KWE, ICAO: ZUGY) is an international airport serving Guiyang, the capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, and the hub for Colorful Guizhou Airlines. The airport was opened on 28 May 1997 and adopted its current name on 19 January 2006. It is located 11 km (6.8 mi) southeast from Guiyang's city center. It is about 4 km2 (1.5 sq mi) and has a 3,200-metre (10,500 ft) long, 45-metre (148 ft) wide runway, which can accommodate Boeing 747 or Airbus A330 widebody aircraft. The terminal is about 34,000 m2 (370,000 sq ft), available for over 2000 passengers departing and arriving per hour. In 2017, Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport was the 22nd busiest airport in mainland China, with 18,109,610 passengers.

26.542°N, 106.804°E · 1.139 m s. n. m. (3.736 ft)
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
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Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.
Airlines using it as a main base (hub)
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Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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title = {{Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport (KWE)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
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