| Qionghai Bo'ao Airport | |
| Iata: | BAR |
| Icao: | ZJQH |
| Type: | Public |
| City-Served: | Qionghai, Hainan |
| Location: | Zhongyuan, Qionghai |
| Opened: | 17 March 2016 |
| Coordinates: | 19.1406°N 110.4589°W |
| Pushpin Map: | China Hainan |
| Pushpin Label: | BAR |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Hainan |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 15/33 |
| R1-Length-M: | 3,200 |
| Stat-Year: | 2021 |
| Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
| Stat1-Data: | 702,609 |
| Stat2-Header: | Aircraft movements |
| Stat2-Data: | 16,952 |
| Stat3-Header: | Cargo (metric tons) |
| Stat3-Data: | 1,337.4 |
| Footnotes: | Sources: |
| Order: | st |
| T: | 瓊海博鰲機場 |
| P: | Qiónghǎi Bó'áo Jīchǎng |
Qionghai Boao Airport is an airport serving the city of Qionghai in Hainan Province, China. The airport received approval from the national government in January 2013,[1] [2] and was opened on 17 March 2016 after three years of construction.[3]
The Qionghai airport was built to facilitate travel to the Boao Forum for Asia, an annual political event held away in Boao.[4] [5] The airport also serves rising tourism to the province of Hainan. A feasibility study on the airport was approved by government officials in December 2012,[6] followed by the master plan in May 2013.[7] A groundbreaking ceremony was held on 17 March 2015.
After a test flight in March 2016,[8] the airport received its first commercial flight a Hainan Airlines Boeing 737 from Beijing on 17 March 2016.[9] For a short period thereafter, the airport remained open to domestic charter flights carrying Boao Forum attendees.[10] [11] After the forum, the Qionghai airport closed so that a new international terminal and a 600m (2,000feet) runway extension could be completed before the next forum. The airport reopened on 29 December 2016, receiving an Air Guilin flight from Guilin.
Qionghai Airport has a 3,200-meter runway capable of handling large jet aircraft, a 9,000 square-meter terminal building, and 26 aircraft parking aprons. It is designed to handle 480,000 passengers and 1,440 tons of cargo annually by 2020.