Yinchuan Hedong International Airport

Yinchuan Hedong International Airport was founded in 1995, and was open to air traffic on September 6th, 1997, has now become an important window of reforming and opening up of Yinchuan. Yinchuan Hedong International Airport is located in the Linhe Town along the eastern coast of the Yellow River, Lingwu City under the management of Yinchuan city, Ningxia Hui autonomous region. It is near the Yellow River, 19 kilometers from Yinchuan city, covers an area of 5560 Mu, the technical grade of the airport is a 4E, and belongs to the main domestic airport. Its runway length is 3600 meters, 45 meters wide, belonging to the Western Airport Group Management. Now there are flights to major cities across the country, and operates international flights from Yinchuan to Seoul, Dubai, Bangkok, etc

 

 

Yinchuan Hedong International Airport is affiliated with the China West Airport Group, Ningxia airport co., LTD. The China West Airport Group is one of China's large airport management group, affiliated to the Shaanxi province people's government. Its predecessor was Xi'an Xianyang international airport, on the basis of receiving feeder airports in Shaanxi province, Ningxia Airport Company, Qinghai civil airport and Gansu Tianshui airport has been reconstructed. Now China West Airport Group manage Xi'an Xianyang international airport, Xining Caojiabao Airport, Yinchuan Hedong Airport, Gansu Tianshui Airport and Yulin, Yan’an, Hanzhong, Ankang of Shaanxi province, Golmud of Qinghai province, and other 11 airports and 14 holding (sharing) company subsidiaries, across four provinces of Shaaxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai province.

 

Ningxia Airport co., LTD. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the China West Airport Group company. Yinchuan Hedong Airport in 2005 became one of the 10 pilot airports of the first batch through the civil aviation administration of China aviation security audit. In June 2006 it passed the ISO9001 quality management system certification. There are nine airlines such as Air China, China Eastern airlines, China southern airlines operate flights from Yinchuan to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Kunming, Xi'an, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Changsha, Wuhan, Urumqi, Nanjing, Qingdao, Dalian, Shenyang, Zhengzhou, Sanya, Haikou, Fuzhou, Nanning, Guiyang, Harbin, Tianjin, Jinan, Taiyuan, Nanchang, Hohhot, Guilin, Hefei, Changchun, Wenzhou, Ningbo, Shijiazhuang, Yantai, Wuxi, Xining, Zhuhai, Lhasa, Hong Kong, Taipei flights of fifty-four cities and regions. On July 20, 2007, Yinchuan-Hong Kong flights officially opened on a regular basis.

 

Restaurant

There are two restaurants in Yinchuan Hedong International Airport, that is, Hui Restaurant (Muslim Restaurant) and Han Restaurant, which meets the requirement of minorities.

Rest Room

It is divided into Waiting Room and VIP Airport Lounge.

 

In general, there are two ways to go from downtown to the airport.

 

There are seven thousands taxis in Yinchuan, the starting fare is 7 Yuan (within 3 km), per kilometer will charge 1 to 1.4 Yuan after 3 km. Night running time is from 22:00 to 6:00 in the next day, the starting fare and the cost for every km will need to recalculate. Hedong Airport is far away from the Yinchuan city, generally it will costs more than 70 Yuan from the airport to Yinchuan downtown.

 

People can go to Airport Plaza Hotel (民航大厦) in Xingning District, the fare is 20 Yuan per person.

 

♦ Direct flights served in Yinchuan Hedong Airport
Yinchuan can be connected by domestic flights in the following cities