AviatDataGuiyang Longdongbao International Airport KWE / ZUGY
Guiyang, Guizhou · China · Guizhou Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport Co., Ltd. (贵州贵阳龙洞堡国际机场股份有限公司) — a joint-stock subsidiary of the state-owned Guizhou Airport Group Co., Ltd. (贵州省机场集团有限公司), the entity that consolidated Guizhou's provincial airports; minority stakes reported to include China Kweichow Moutai Distillery (Group) Co., Ltd. and other Guizhou state enterprises, though the specific 55%/29.72% split in the draft could not be independently confirmed against a primary source and should be re-checked (note: some older references call the parent "Guizhou Civil Aviation Industry Group" — this may be an earlier name for the same group, or a related but distinct SOE; verify)
22.7Mpax · 2025
H24International · customs & immigrationJet A-1 · bonded
ICAO / IATAZUGY / KWE
OperatorGuizhou Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport Co., Ltd. (贵州贵阳龙洞堡国际机场股份有限公司) — a joint-stock subsidiary of the state-owned Guizhou Airport Group Co., Ltd. (贵州省机场集团有限公司), the entity that consolidated Guizhou's provincial airports; minority stakes reported to include China Kweichow Moutai Distillery (Group) Co., Ltd. and other Guizhou state enterprises, though the specific 55%/29.72% split in the draft could not be independently confirmed against a primary source and should be re-checked (note: some older references call the parent "Guizhou Civil Aviation Industry Group" — this may be an earlier name for the same group, or a related but distinct SOE; verify)
Coordinates26.5386°N, 106.8008°E
Elevation3,737 ft · 1,139 m
Time zoneCST (UTC+8, no DST)
Passengers / yr22,731,681 (2025)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
BondedYes
AIP referenceZUGY — AIP China (CAAC), AD 2.ZUGY
Operating hoursH24 — flight operations and ATC run around the clock with no published curfew; customs, immigration and health/quarantine desks operate on scheduled-service hours (HS) or on-request (O/R) tied to international flight timings, per standard CAAC AIP AD 2.3 practice (exact wording not independently confirmed for ZUGY specifically).
TerminalsThree passenger terminals — T1 (opened 28 May 1997, ~36,868 sqm; later renovated and physically connected to T2), T2 (opened 22 April 2013, ~120,000 sqm, 47 aircraft stands of which 22 have boarding bridges) and T3 (opened 15 December 2021 under the airport's Phase 3 expansion, ~200,000 sqm) — all handling combined domestic and international traffic; a dedicated International Cargo Center and Type-B bonded logistics center are reported to adjoin the airport
Runways (2)
- 01L/19R · 3,500 m / 11,483 ft · 45 m wide · Concrete · ILS 01L end: ILS CAT I reported. 19R end: localizer reportedly built to CAT III specification but currently operated to CAT II minima with a restricted course sector — this level of detail (specific ident/frequency, exact category in force) comes from Chinese AIP charts that could not be accessed for this check; confirm against current AIP China AD 2.ZUGY before publishing.
- 01R/19L · 4,000 m / 13,123 ft · 45 m wide · Concrete · ILS Reported ILS CAT I at both ends. This runway (01R/19L, 4,000 m) entered service 5 Nov 2020 as part of the airport's expansion — it is the newer, higher-capacity runway, not a long-standing one. Specific localizer idents/frequencies in the draft could not be independently verified and should be checked against current AIP China charts.
Airport contact
Guizhou province's principal air gateway and the leading Southwest China airport after Chengdu and Kunming; main operating base for low-cost carrier Colorful Guizhou Airlines, a China Southern Airlines focus city, and also served by Air China, Hainan Airlines and Tianjin Airlines. Handled 22,731,681 passengers in 2025 (+1.9% YoY per CAAC's national airport production ranking — confirmed), against a design capacity commonly cited as ~30 million pax/year following the December 2021 Phase 3 (T3) terminal expansion. Runway count confirmed at 2 (01L/19R 3,500 m; 01R/19L 4,000 m, the latter having entered service 5 Nov 2020) — matches current reality, no third runway exists. ILS category/frequency specifics in the draft are plausible in shape (older/shorter runway with mixed CAT I/II/III-spec equipment, newer/longer runway CAT I both ends) but the exact idents and frequencies could not be verified against primary AIP source and should be checked before publishing as authoritative.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available
Guizhou Aviation Ground Services Co., Ltd. (贵州航空地面服务有限公司)
Confirmed via national business registry (爱企查/企查查): state-controlled enterprise established 2021-01-12, 90 percent owned by Guiyang Longdongbao Airport Co. and 10 percent by Duocai Guizhou Airlines; registered office is on the KWE apron/terminal/overnight-parking block. Business scope and its own recruitment notices describe check-in, passenger transport/inquiry, baggage handling, apron passenger-bus shuttling, special-vehicle services, load planning and flight dispatch support for airlines operating at KWE.
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Aircraft fuel
Available
China Aviation Oil (CNAF) Guizhou Branch (中国航空油料有限责任公司贵州分公司)
Confirmed via national business registry: established 2012-11-21, registered at Guiyang Longdongbao airport (南明区龙洞堡机场); Baidu Maps lists a dedicated 24-hour non-public aviation fueling station for this branch on airport grounds. Supplies and into-plane fuels domestic and foreign carriers at KWE and the other Guizhou branch airports (Tongren, Anshun, Xingyi, Liping, Zunyi, Bijie, Kaili, Libo, Liupanshui, Maotai) per CNAF group materials; the exact regional-company parent (e.g. a Southwest Company tier) is unconfirmed. Phone shown is CNAF Group's national customer-service line; a Guiyang-specific direct line appears in a business-registry recruitment listing but was not independently verified on an official channel.
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De-icing
Seasonal
Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport Co. (贵州贵阳龙洞堡国际机场股份有限公司)
Strongly confirmed: the airport's own news channel and Guizhou Civil Aviation Group both describe this as Southwest China's first airfield-side de-icing-fluid dispensing station, and CAAC Southwest Regional Administration reporting independently corroborates the 450+ tonne de-icing/anti-icing fluid stockpile figure. Guiyang sits at roughly 1,100 m elevation and experiences recurring winter freezing-rain (凝冻) events, which the airport addresses each winter with dedicated de-icing vehicles (12 per recent CAAC reporting), two fluid-dispensing stations, and a staged cold-weather response protocol. Climate justification for a seasonal de-icing service is genuine here (unlike a tropical/subtropical field).
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Part-145 line maintenance
Available
Aircraft Ground Handling Branch, Guiyang Longdongbao Airport Co. (飞机地勤分公司)
Confirmed by CAAC's own news channel (中国民用航空局): on 2024-03-20, this branch performed KWE's first aircraft scheduled/periodic check (定检), on a Colorful Guizhou Airlines A320 LEAP-1A, coordinating qualifications, tooling and work-cards with the carrier's technical staff, observed by Guizhou Regulatory Bureau's airworthiness division and the carrier. Note the branch's day-to-day registered business (per recruitment listings) is primarily ramp/bridge ground-handling (it operates a jet-bridge equipment department), so this scheduled-check role is a documented but secondary capability rather than its core business.
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Part-145 base maintenance
Not listed
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
Available
Guizhou Airline Food Co., Ltd. (贵州航空食品有限公司)
Confirmed: flight kitchen established 1998-09-08 on Hangbei Road No.2 at Guiyang Longdongbao airport (own catering building). Controlling shareholder is Guizhou Linkong (airport economic zone) Development Co., under the provincial civil-aviation group. Phone/email found via business-directory aggregation, not an official company page, so treat as reference pending direct confirmation.
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Aircraft cleaning
Unconfirmed
Guizhou Aviation Ground Services Co., Ltd. (贵州航空地面服务有限公司)
Cabin/aircraft cleaning is typically bundled into standard ramp-handling packages at Chinese domestic airports; no separately named cabin-cleaning contractor was found for KWE, so this is recorded as unconfirmed under the ground handler pending a named cleaning subcontractor.
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Ground support equipment
Unconfirmed
Aircraft Ground Handling Branch, Guiyang Longdongbao Airport Co. (飞机地勤分公司)
A recruitment notice referencing a dedicated special-vehicle repair shop (特种车辆维修厂) under this branch could not be independently located; special-vehicle maintenance at Chinese airports is commonly run either by an in-house support department or a third-party contractor, so this remains unconfirmed rather than verified.
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Cargo handling
Available
Guizhou Airport Logistics Industry Development Co., Ltd. (贵州航空港物流产业发展有限公司)
Confirmed via national business registry: formerly Guizhou Civil Aviation Express Co., established 1998-01-24, wholly-owned subsidiary of Guizhou Civil Aviation Industry Group, registered at Guiyang Longdongbao airport. Handles cargo/mail transport for contracted carriers and acts as domestic/international freight sales agent. Phone is the airport's own published inbound-cargo staff line.
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Aviation security
Available
Guiyang Longdongbao Airport Security Checkpoint (贵阳机场安全检查站)
Confirmed as a genuine second-tier unit of the airport operator (Guiyang Longdongbao Airport Co.) responsible for passenger, baggage and cargo/mail security screening and checkpoint/gate control at KWE, per CAAC's own news coverage (e.g. Spring Festival and summer-peak security-screening operations reporting). One business directory lists a slightly different checkpoint phone (•••); the number here is retained pending confirmation since neither source is an official channel.
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Passenger & crew transport
Not listed
Flight support
Not listed
Hotel & travel
Available
Yihui International Aviation Hotel (翼汇国际航空酒店)
It sits in the Shuanglong airport economic zone's Duocai Guizhou City complex, about 2.5 km (roughly a 10-minute drive) from the KWE terminal — not the approximately 100 m originally drafted. Purpose-built to house flight crew overnight and serve business travelers; room count (126) not.
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