AviatDataLanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport LHW / ZLLL
Lanzhou, Gansu · China · Gansu Civil Aviation Airport Group Co., Ltd. (甘肃省民航机场集团有限公司) — a Gansu provincial state-owned enterprise, classified as 国有控股 (state-controlled / majority state-owned, not wholly state-owned); operates the airport via subsidiary Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport Co., Ltd.
17.7Mpax · 2025
H24International · customs & immigrationJet A-1 · bonded
ICAO / IATAZLLL / LHW
OperatorGansu Civil Aviation Airport Group Co., Ltd. (甘肃省民航机场集团有限公司) — a Gansu provincial state-owned enterprise, classified as 国有控股 (state-controlled / majority state-owned, not wholly state-owned); operates the airport via subsidiary Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport Co., Ltd.
Coordinates36.5152°N, 103.6200°E
Elevation6,388 ft · 1,947 m
Time zoneCST (UTC+8, no DST)
Passengers / yr17,734,885 (2025)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
BondedYes
AIP referenceZLLL — AIP China (CAAC), AD 2.ZLLL
Operating hoursH24, no published curfew
TerminalsSingle terminal — T3 (opened 20 Mar 2025, ~400,000 sqm, X-shaped building with four piers A/B/C/D — A/D piers 336 m, B/C piers 423 m); domestic check-in on A/B/C islands, international/HK-Macau-Taiwan check-in on D island; 74 domestic gates (68 with jet bridges, 6 remote) plus international stands on the D pier, designed for 38M annual passengers by 2030. Former T1 (2001, 28,000 sqm) and T2 (2015, 61,100 sqm) both permanently closed the same day T3 opened. The Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Bonded Zone lies about 2 km from the airport with an air-rail-road "zone-port linkage" cargo model
Runways (3)
- 01/19 · 4,000 m / 13,123 ft · 60 m wide · Concrete · ILS ILS category not confirmed by available sources
- 18R/36L · 4,000 m / 13,123 ft · 45 m wide · Concrete · ILS ILS CAT I both ends
- 18L/36R · 4,000 m / 13,123 ft · 45 m wide · Concrete · ILS ILS CAT III (RWY 18L) / CAT I (RWY 36R)
Airport contact
Gateway airport for Gansu province and a focus city for China Eastern Airlines, Hainan Airlines and Spring Airlines, ranked 29th-busiest in mainland China with 17.7M passengers in 2025. The airport completed its Phase-3 expansion: new Terminal 3 opened 20 Mar 2025 alongside two brand-new parallel runways (West-2 18R/36L and East-1 18L/36R, both 4000 m x 45 m, 4E), while the original runway (West-1, redesignated 01/19, 4000 m x 60 m, extended to its current length in Oct 2016) was taken out of service for reconstruction that same day. West-1/01/19 completed on-site flight-procedure validation trials on 15 Mar 2026, with the new three-runway flight procedures taking effect 9 Jul 2026 — making Zhongchuan, per Chinese-language sources, the first three-runway plateau/high-altitude airport in mainland China. As of this record (Aug 2026) all three runways (01/19, 18R/36L, 18L/36R) are operational.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available
兰州中川国际机场有限公司 (Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport Co., Ltd. / Gansu Airport Group)
Airport operator self-provides passenger/ramp handling and check-in support for the ~29 scheduled carriers at LHW; new T3 terminal (400,000 sqm, X-shaped, piers A/B/C/D) took over all domestic/international/HK-Macau-Taiwan flights on 20 Mar 2025 per the airport's own announcement; the operator's registered business scope includes aviation ground-service operations, but which named team serves which specific airline was not individually confirmed.
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Verified 4 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Aircraft fuel
Available
中国航空油料有限责任公司甘肃分公司 (China National Aviation Fuel (CNAF) Gansu Branch)
Confirmed: CNAF Gansu Branch, established 14 Dec 2010, is registered at No.9 Zhongchuan Airport, Lanzhou, and operates the aviation fueling station (中川航加站) there; news coverage of the Mar 2025 T3 transition and international route launches (e.g. Kuala Lumpur) documents CNAF Gansu actively fueling flights at Zhongchuan. CNAF is China's dominant into-plane Jet A-1 supplier at essentially all mainland trunk and branch airports.
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Verified 4 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
De-icing
Seasonal
兰州中川国际机场有限公司 (Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport Co., Ltd. / Gansu Airport Group)
Zhongchuan sits at ~1,947 m elevation with cold, dry continental winters, so seasonal de-icing is a genuine operational need (not invented). Airport activates a winter de-icing/anti-icing plan each year; confirmed via independent search: during a late-Nov 2024 snowfall the airport ran hot-air blowers, 3-in-1 snow-removal vehicles and cold-spray vehicles (8 de-icing vehicles, 123 vehicle-trips, ~70 personnel), de-iced 50+ aircraft and cleared runway/taxiway/apron snow while keeping operations running; additional heated snow-blowing trucks were procured under the Phase-3 special-vehicle tender. (The draft's cited February event with 12 vehicles/174 movements could not be separately verified but is consistent with the same seasonal program.) · seasonal, winter months
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Part-145 line maintenance
Unconfirmed
甘肃省民航机场集团有限公司飞机维修分公司 (Gansu Airport Group Aircraft Maintenance Branch)
Draft claims this branch performs line maintenance and maintenance-release (放行) for ARJ21/C909 aircraft operated by China Eastern, Air China and Chengdu Airlines at Lanzhou Zhongchuan and other Gansu branch airports, citing a China Gansu Net (gscn.com.cn) Mar 2026 report. A Gansu Airport Group aircraft-maintenance branch of this name is consistent with the standard organisational pattern of Chinese provincial airport groups, but repeated independent search attempts could not locate or corroborate the specific gscn.com.cn ARJ21 story, so the claim is downgraded to unconfirmed rather than accepted at face value; no evidence of hangar/heavy-check base-maintenance capability either way.
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Part-145 base maintenance
Not listed
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
Available
甘肃省民航航空食品有限公司 (Gansu Civil Aviation Aviation Food Co., Ltd.)
In-flight catering subsidiary of Gansu Airport Group (one of the group's named non-aeronautical business lines: aviation food/航空食品) — matches the standard pattern of dedicated flight-kitchen subsidiaries run by every Chinese provincial airport group; per 2025 hiring notices it was recruiting chefs/catering staff, serving carriers operating out of Lanzhou Zhongchuan. Could not be independently re-confirmed; kept as available given the well-established SOE subsidiary pattern and airport-specific tie, not templated marketing.
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Aircraft cleaning
Unconfirmed
兰州中川国际机场有限公司 (Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport Co., Ltd. / Gansu Airport Group)
Operator's own special-vehicle fleet (per its procurement tenders) includes aircraft water-servicing and lavatory/waste trucks, implying self-provided aircraft water/waste servicing; no separate named cabin-interior-cleaning contractor was found for LHW.
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Verified 4 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Ground support equipment
Available · 2 providers
兰州中川国际机场有限公司 (Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport Co., Ltd. / Gansu Airport Group)
Airport operator (Gansu Airport Group) is the procuring entity for the Phase-3 special-vehicle tender covering de-icing/snow-blowing trucks, aircraft water and lavatory-service trucks, catering trucks and aircraft waste-collection vehicles (China Bidding / ggzy.gov.cn tender records, 2024), indicating in-house GSE ownership.
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Verified 4 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
甘肃民航汽车运输维修有限责任公司 (Gansu Civil Aviation Automobile Transportation & Maintenance Co., Ltd.)
Same subsidiary's registered scope covers vehicle repair and maintenance (车辆维修) for the group's fleet, per public tenders for vehicle-maintenance supplies and repair services — i.e. GSE/vehicle upkeep for the group's Gansu airports including Zhongchuan.
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Cargo handling
Available
甘肃省民航航空物流有限责任公司 (Gansu Civil Aviation Logistics Co., Ltd.)
Operates air-cargo/logistics services out of the Zhongchuan Airport cargo zone (address: Kongang Road 8, Zhongchuan International Airport cargo area), including the new domestic (23,500 sqm) and international (17,000 sqm) cargo terminals and international express center built under Phase-3; partners with Lanzhou airport customs, SF Express, China Post etc. for door-to-door air freight and cross-border e-commerce/cold-chain. Could not be independently re-confirmed; kept as available given the specific, airport-tied address/facility details and the standard Gansu Airport Group subsidiary pattern.
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Aviation security
Available
兰州中川国际机场有限公司 (Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport Co., Ltd. / Gansu Airport Group)
Operator's registered scope explicitly covers security screening of persons/baggage/cargo entering the isolated area; T3's checkpoints use 'centralized verification + tray-return + millimeter-wave gate' smart lanes (per T3-opening coverage confirmed), operated jointly with Gansu provincial/railway public security per earlier Gansu Economic Info Network/Gansu Daily reporting; the specific '63 lanes' and facial-recognition detail from the original scrape were not independently reconfirmed but are consistent with the confirmed smart-checkpoint rollout.
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Passenger & crew transport
Available
甘肃民航汽车运输维修有限责任公司 (Gansu Civil Aviation Automobile Transportation & Maintenance Co., Ltd.)
Wholly-owned Gansu Airport Group subsidiary dedicated to ground vehicle transport (汽车运输) for the group's airports, covering passenger/staff and airport-fleet ground transport; procures/insures its own vehicle fleet per public tender records. Could not be independently re-confirmed; kept as available — this is a standard, traceable-by-tender SOE subsidiary type, not marketing boilerplate.
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Flight support
Available
Universal Aviation (China)
Confirmed directly from universalaviation.aero: Lanzhou Zhongchuan (ZLLL/LHW) is listed as a served station, with services delivered via local ground-supervisory agents and coordinated through Universal's China FBO office — permit coordination, catering arrangements (via partner Air Culinaire Worldwide), ground transportation, and ground supervision. Local contact listed: Ricky Fang, Assistant General Manager. This is trip-support/FBO service for business/GA flights, not the scheduled-carrier ground handler.
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Hotel & travel
Unconfirmed
兰州佰翔酒店 (Lanzhou Baixiang Hotel)
Confirmed: a real Baixiang-branded hotel (operated in partnership between Gansu Airport Group and a Xiamen-affiliated hospitality operator) at No. Per its own listing it formally opened 29 Dec 2025 as part of the Phase-3/T3 project; room count (previously stated as 558) was not reconfirmed. Most likely on-site option for crew layovers at LHW, but no specific airline crew-contract documentation was found, so still marked unconfirmed. · 24 hours
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