Ejina Banner Taolai Airport

额济纳旗桃来机场
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorInner Mongolia Civil Airports Group Co.
ServesEjin Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
Opened17 December 2013 (2013-12-17)
Elevation AMSL935 m / 3,068 ft
Coordinates42°0′56″N 101°0′2″E / 42.01556°N 101.00056°E / 42.01556; 101.00056
Map
EJN is located in Inner Mongolia
EJN
EJN
Location of airport in Inner Mongolia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 2,000 6,562 concrete
Statistics (2021)
Passengers5,811
Aircraft movements241
Source: Flightstats[1]
Ejina Banner Taolai Airport
Simplified Chinese额济纳旗桃来机场

Ejina Banner Taolai Airport[lower-alpha 1] (IATA: EJN, ICAO: ZBEN) is a regional airport serving Ejin Banner in Inner Mongolia, China.[2][3]

Overview

Taolai Airport is one of the three airports of Alxa League in western Inner Mongolia, the other two being Alxa Left Banner Bayanhot Airport and Alxa Right Banner Badanjilin Airport. The three airports form a commuter airport network that connects the three banners of Alxa League, which covers a vast area (272,000 square kilometres (105,000 sq mi)) of the Gobi Desert.[2]

Construction for the airports started in August 2012, with a total investment of 389.5 million yuan, and all three airports opened on 17 December 2013.[2] All three airports are classified 3C, suitable for 50-seat aircraft such as the Xian MA60. Taolai Airport is projected to handle 80,000 passengers annually by 2020, compared with 250,000 for Bayanhot and 45,000 for Badanjilin.[2]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Joy Air Alxa Left Banner, Xi'an

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Chinese: 额济纳旗桃来机场

References

  1. ↑ Flightstats.com
  2. 1 2 3 4 中国首个通勤航空试点项目通航 (in Chinese). Xinhua. 2013-12-17. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved 2014-01-27.
  3. ↑ 额济纳旗桃来机场正式通航 (in Chinese). Ejin Banner. 2013-12-18. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-01-27.
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