Ezhou Huahu Airport is designed to handle 2.45 million tons of cargo and mail throughput in 2025, providing domestic services first before international services start.
Services to Shenzhen and Shanghai will open in the first phase, before international flights to destinations including Frankfurt and Osaka are launched.
When cargo operations are launched, the airport will have a freight centre covering 700,000 square metres, a terminal building with an area of 15,000 square metres and 124 stations will be built.
The project took 8 eight years to complete and consisted of three parts, the airport project, the transhipment centre and SF Airlines base project, and the oil supply project.
In September 2020, Hubei province and the Civil Aviation Administration of China held a working meeting in Wuhan where they agreed that Wuhan Tianhe Airport would be the international gateway to the region and Ezhou Huahu would be a freight hub.
Ezhou Huahu has two parallel runways measuring 3,600 metres long and 45 metres wide, and taxiways running east to west.