Tianjin Binhai International Airport is an international airport serving Tianjin, the municipality in North China. It is one of the major air cargo centers in the People's Republic of China.

It is the hub airport for Tianjin Airlines, established in 2004, and privately owned Okay Airways, as well as a focus city for Air China.

In 2025, Tianjin Binhai International Airport handled 19,862,196 passengers, a drop of 1.0% over 2024, making it the 26th busiest airport in China. and Airbus A330 Completion and Delivery Center which was completed by the end of 2017.

In 2018, Hainan Airlines started operating flights to Vancouver, making it the first intercontinental route serving the airport. However, the route was terminated in January 2019.

Development of the airport

Before 2005, commercial flights were handles in what is now the airport's cargo terminal. In 2006, a larger terminal was built and is now the passenger terminal. A huge expansion was made to the passenger terminal around 2010 to accommodate more passengers. It has 47 jet bridges and is one of the largest airports in China. It is located in a state-of-the-art terminal building, which is more than three times bigger than the previous terminal, at . When the three construction phases are completed, the airport terminal will be over and will be able to handle 40 million passengers per year. In May 2009, the airport also completed the construction of a second runway, with the expected number of passengers exceeding ten million.

Tianjin Airlines is headquartered in the terminal.

On 28 August 2014, Tianjin Binhai International Airport Terminal 2 came into use. The second floor is used as an arrivals hall, while the first floor is a departure hall.

Underground, on level B1, there is a public transport hub, used to connect the airport terminal to various methods of public transportation. This includes a subway station level, a transfer hall and an underground parking lot. Terminal 2 is connected to subway line number 2, meaning that passengers can get to the terminal straight from Tianjin railway station.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Tianjin Binhai International Airport (TSN) plans to operate a total of 120 routes and serve 97 cities during the 2025 winter and spring flight season (October 26, 2025 to March 28, 2026).<!-- Please use independent sources. The airport and the airline itself are not independent sources. -->

thumb|An Okay Airways Boeing 737-800 at Binhai

Cargo

In 2025, the airport handled 133,023.3 tonnes of cargo and mail, ranking 26th among Chinese airports.

| Central Airlines | Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Tokyo–Narita

| China Cargo Airlines | Shanghai–Pudong

| Grizodubova Air Company | Abakan

| Hong Kong Air Cargo | Hong Kong

| Lufthansa Cargo | Frankfurt, Krasnoyarsk

| Korean Air Cargo | Seoul–Incheon

| Okay Airways Cargo | Seoul–Incheon

| Tianjin Air Cargo | Osaka–Kansai, Tokyo–Narita, Wuxi

| TransAVIAexport Airlines | Novosibirsk

See also

  • Transport in Tianjin
  • List of airports in the People's Republic of China
  • China's busiest airports by passenger traffic

References

  • Official website