According to the Southern Metropolis Daily, Zhu Hongwu, deputy of the provincial people's congress and mayor of Danzhou City, said: "Danzhou Airport has encountered some problems in site selection, and needs to weigh the opinions of all parties and is looking for the most suitable construction site. The project is still in progress. " Danzhou Airport, the planned airport in the west of Hainan, should respond to the integrated construction of Danzhou City and Yangpu Economic Development Zone in Hainan Province, and form a pattern of two branch lines in Hainan, one airport in the east, west, north and south.
The planned area of the airport site is 3454. 139 mu (about 2.3 square kilometers), and 6000 mu of spare land is reserved. The total investment of the airport construction project is estimated to be about 654.38+0.5 billion, and the passenger throughput of the airport in the near future is initially estimated to be 900,000 passengers (the designed annual throughput of the airport is 480,000 passengers), and the annual passenger throughput of the airport in the long term is 3.6 million passengers in 2045. The airport uses C-class passenger planes such as B737—700, B737—800 and A320—200.