AKU
Aksu Hongqipo Airport
Aksu Hongqipo Airport (IATA: AKU, ICAO: ZWAK) is a medium airport in Aksu (Onsu), Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. It opened in 1973. It has one runway, 2,400 m (7,874 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 938 thousand passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1973–19731973
OpenedAksu Hongqipo Airport opens.
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap09/27 · LIT
LENGTH2,400 m7,874 ftWIDTH—SURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2011–2022412K
484K
632K
749K
1.1M
1.1M
1.3M
1.3M
1.7M
1.3M
1.6M
938K
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Routes
34 destinations · 1 countryYear-round34
ACFAral Tarim AirportChina · China Express Airlines123 km76 miTWCTumxuk Tangwangcheng AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Air China177 km110 miZFLZhaosu Tianma AirportChina · China Express Airlines217 km135 miYINIli Yining International AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines311 km193 miKHGKashgar Laining International AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines409 km254 miQSZShache AirportChina · China Express Airlines435 km270 miBPLBole Alashankou AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines436 km271 miHTNHotan AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines471 km293 miKRLKorla Licheng AirportChina · China Express Airlines489 km304 miSHFShihezi Huayuan AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines564 km350 miKRYKaramay AirportChina · China Express Airlines600 km373 miTCGTacheng Qianquan AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines649 km403 miURCÜrümqi Tianshan International AirportChina · Tianjin Airlines, Air China658 km409 miTLQTurpan Jiaohe AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines752 km467 miJBKQitai Jiangbulake AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines822 km511 miAATAltay Xuedu AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines949 km590 miHMIHami AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines1,117 km694 miLHWLanzhou Zhongchuan International AirportChina · Spring Airlines, Air China2,080 km1,292 miINCYinchuan Hedong International AirportChina · Loong Air2,245 km1,395 miCTUChengdu Shuangliu International AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines2,429 km1,509 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, Air China2,483 km1,543 miXIYXi'an Xianyang International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines, China Eastern Airlines2,599 km1,615 miCKGChongqing Jiangbei International AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chongqing Airlines2,695 km1,675 miCGOZhengzhou Xinzheng International AirportChina · West Air, Fuzhou Airlines, Urumqi Air +13,018 km1,875 miPEKBeijing Capital International AirportChina · Air China3,042 km1,890 miWUHWuhan Tianhe International AirportChina · Loong Air3,241 km2,014 miCSXChangsha Huanghua International AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines3,315 km2,060 miTAOQingdao Jiaodong International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines3,460 km2,150 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Spring Airlines3,649 km2,267 miJUZQuzhou AirportChina · China Express Airlines3,732 km2,319 miHGHHangzhou Xiaoshan International AirportChina · Loong Air3,786 km2,353 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · Loong Air3,851 km2,393 miWNZWenzhou Longwan International AirportChina · Loong Air3,956 km2,458 miFOCFuzhou Changle International AirportChina · Fuzhou Airlines3,982 km2,474 miMost destinationsChina Express Airlines 16Chengdu Airlines 13Loong Air 6Air China 5Spring Airlines 2Shandong Airlines 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from AKU. From the Wikipedia article “Aksu Hongqipo Airport” (revision of 10 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record