Nanjing Lukou International Airport (IATA: NKG, ICAO: ZSNJ) is the main airport serving Nanjing, capital of China's Jiangsu province. The airport is located in suburban Jiangning District, over 35 km south of the city center.
Nanjing is a focus city of China Eastern Airlines. In 2010, Nanjing airport handled 12,530,515 million passengers and 234,000 tonnes of freight, making it the 10th busiest by cargo traffic, and the 13th busiest by passenger traffic in China.
Lukou Airport was opened on 28 June 1997, replacing Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport as the main airport serving Nanjing. Dajiaochang Airport is still used as a military air base.
Current airport masterplans call for the building of a second passenger terminal and a second runway and taxiway system by 2013 (Phase 2), raising its capacity from the current 12 million passengers annually to 30 million, along with the ability to handle 800,000 tonnes of air freight by 2020.
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