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Wenzhou Longwan International Airport (ZSWZ/WNZ) serves the city of Wenzhou on China's East Zhejiang coast, sitting close to the shoreline in Longwan District some 24 km southeast of the city centre. It is a busy 4D-class international gateway with a single long instrument runway equipped for large widebody traffic, making it a notable stop for simulator pilots flying regional and intercontinental Chinese routes.
Wenzhou Longwan International Airport is the principal air gateway for Wenzhou, a coastal city in Zhejiang province, and is operated by Wenzhou Airport Group. Originally opened as a domestic Class-II civil airport, it has grown into a busy international hub ranked among the 35 busiest airports in mainland China, handling over 13 million passengers annually. For a simulator pilot it offers a long, ILS-equipped runway capable of taking widebody aircraft such as the Boeing 767 and Airbus A330, set against a coastal East China backdrop.
The airport lies in Longwan District, on the coast of East China's Zhejiang province, about 24 km southeast of downtown Wenzhou. As a major international airport it sits within controlled Chinese airspace with associated air traffic services; no specific class or FIR boundary detail is given in the available sources.
Wenzhou Longwan has a single physical runway, 03/21, measuring 7,885 ft with a hard surface. It is lit for night operations and equipped with ILS on both approach directions, supporting instrument approaches from either end.
No verified communications frequencies are published for Wenzhou Longwan in the aeronautical data referenced here. The runway is equipped with ILS on both 03 and 21, providing instrument approach guidance for arriving traffic.
Construction of Wenzhou airport began in 1987 and it opened to traffic on 12 July 1990 as Wenzhou Yongqiang Airport, initially launching services to Shanghai, Wuhan, Chengdu and Ningbo. The terminal was expanded in 1994, and in 1995 the airport passed port-of-entry inspection, enabling direct flights to Hong Kong and Macau. It was renamed Civil Aviation Wenzhou Yongqiang Airport in 2002. A major terminal-area expansion from June 2006 added a new runway, and further terminal buildings opened in 2008 and 2011, the latter as a dedicated international terminal. On 25 April 2013 the airport was renamed Wenzhou Longwan International Airport, and that year it launched its first scheduled international route, to Bangkok; a new, wider runway also opened in October 2013, enabling operations by aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and Airbus A330. On 20 March 2011, a China Eastern Airlines Airbus A320 clipped trees on approach to the airport. Terminal 2 entered service in 2018, beginning dual-terminal operations and raising annual capacity to 15 million passengers; that November the airport passed the 10-million-passenger mark for the first time. In September 2023 a Phase III expansion, including a second runway and a new Terminal 3, was approved to support future growth to 30 million passengers a year.
Wenzhou Longwan is a 4D-class international civil airport capable of handling widebody aircraft up to Boeing 767 and Airbus A330 size, with a departure lounge of some 12,000 square metres and an apron covering roughly 73,000 square metres. It operates dual terminals following the introduction of Terminal 2 in 2018, with domestic and international operations split between them, and in 2025 handled around 93,700 aircraft movements and over 13 million passengers across 102 destinations, including intercontinental routes to Rome, Milan and Madrid. A Phase III expansion, approved in 2023, is planned to add a second runway and a new Terminal 3.