After the plan officialy approved five years ago, the airport just next to Wuhan opened on July 17.
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Official news from China: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-07-17/A ... index.html
Note that the report claim the airport is "the fourth professional freight airport in the world and the first in Asia" but I am not sure what's the definition of "professional freight airport" here.
And also the airport is not named after SF Express afterall, being named "Ezhou Huahu Airport" instead, code EHU, and will also carry passenger traffic as part of the design goal.
The Chinese Wikipedia article on the airport currently listed 9 domestic passenger flights out of the airport, including MU to PVG and CZ to PKX Peking Daxing. On the other hand it only listed two freight destinations by SF Express, to SZX and PVG. The article also mention that there is a separate zone in the airport for non-SF-Express airlines to handle freights.
Analyst note that: https://companies.caixin.com/2022-02-17/101843045.html with SF Express' current fleet size, it might be a bit difficult to reach the airport's freight traffic goal of 2.45 megatonnes by 2025 and 3.30 megatonnes by 2030 if they solely rely on SF Express.
https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2022-0 ... 4929.shtml
On the other hand, it is reported that, during the past few years, other logistic firm in China are also trying to make their own airport. For example YTO Express, another express delivery service in China, signed agreement for a "Global aviation logistic hub" with Jiaxing city government in 2020 June, and last month Chinese authority also aproved JD, a Chinese e-commerce site, to setup their own freight airlines, after their cooperation framework with Nantong government in 2018 to hub the Nantong airport which work already started a year after that.
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Much have changed since 5 years ago, is the airport now in a better or worse position than back then? Do they have chance of meeting their own goal, and what performance should they achieve to be deemed a success?
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