Sunan Shuofang International Airport handled 105,900 passengers during the National Day holiday, an increase of 16.3 percent over the same period last year.

Some 854 take-offs and landings were recorded during the seven-day holiday, an increase of 17.3 percent year-on-year. With an 80 percent passenger occupancy rate, 82.8 percent of flights took-off on schedule.

The airport located in Shuofang sub-district of Wuxi New District (WND) is now co-owned by the governments of Wuxi, Suzhou, and Jiangsu province. In 2015, it handled 4,609,344 passengers, making it the 42nd busiest airport in China.