Chengdu Tianfu International Airport
Chengdu Tianfu International Airport
Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (IATA: TFU, ICAO: ZUTF; also known as Tianfu Airport) is one of two international airports serving Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwestern China. It was planned in 2013 and opened in 2021, after Chengdu Shuangliu Airport had been exceeding its designed maximum passenger capacity for years. The airport is located at Lujia Town of Jianyang, 51 km (32 mi) southeast of downtown Chengdu. The construction of this airport began in May 2016, and the airport opened in June 2021. Chengdu is the third city in China to have dual international airports after Beijing and Shanghai. In 2023, Chengdu Tianfu International Airport and Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport together handled a total of 538,000 flight takeoffs and landings, with a passenger volume of 74.924 million. The annual passenger volume makes Chengdu 3rd among the cities with airport systems in China. Chengdu Tianfu International Airport alone ranks 29th-busiest in the world and the fifth-busiest in China by passenger traffic (44,786,101 passengers in 2023).
Location
30.313°N, 104.441°E · 439 m s. n. m. (1.440 ft)
General data
Runways · 3
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
History
Plans for a new airport for Chengdu had been in place since 2007. In May 2011, officials confirmed the planning process for selecting a location had started. In June 2013, the Civil Aviation Administration of China officially confirmed and approved Jianyang's Lujia Town as the location for the new airport.
In January 2015, the State Council and Central Military Commission approved the new airport project, and the official name Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (Chinese: 成都天府国际机场) was finalized by the Civil Aviation Administration of China in September 2015. In January 2021, flight testing was done and on 27 June 2021, the first commercial flight departed from the airport. On the same day, Terminal 2 officially entered service.
Terminal 2 serves domestic flights while Terminal 1 serves mostly international flights, though it also serves some domestic flights. The domestic section of Terminal 1 is connected to Terminal 2 via an Innovia automated people mover (APM) for transferring passengers arriving on international flights with domestic connections.
Airlines operating here · 51
Airlines using it as a main base (hub)
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: FATIII Aviation · CC BY 3.0 · view original
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APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (TFU). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TFU
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BibTeX
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