BAV

Baotou Donghe International Airport

ICAO ZBOW40.5600°N 109.9970°E1,012 m / 3,321 ftLarge airport
On the map

Baotou Donghe International Airport (IATA: BAV, ICAO: ZBOW) is a large airport in Baotou, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. It opened in 1956. It has one runway, 2,800 m (9,186 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 1.0 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1956–1956
1956
OpenedBaotou Donghe International Airport opens.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
13/31130° / 310° · LIT
LENGTH2,800 m9,186 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
1.3M
1.6M
1.7M
1.8M
1.9M
1.9M
2.1M
2.0M
2.3M
1.2M
1.3M
1.0M
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Routes

18 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsChina Express Airlines 12Shandong Airlines 2Air China 2Loong Air 2Genghis Khan Airlines 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BAV. From the Wikipedia article “Baotou Donghe International Airport” (revision of 3 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers1.0M (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#817of 3,974 · #257 Asia · #76 CNLongest runway2,800 m9,186 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,614of 29,823 · =459 Asia · =99 CNElevation1,012 m3,321 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=4,699of 43,341 · #442 Asia · #99 CNAgeOpened 19562026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,178of 15,079 · =229 Asia · =23 CNRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =31 CN
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record