had four airports handling 87,068 flights, in 2012, up 14 percent, and handled 8,521,000 passengers, up 17.5 percent. They had a handling capacity of 48,000 tons, or 6.8 percent more than the previous year. Taiyuan’s Wu Xu International Airport has 81 domestic airline flights, five regional airline flights (Hong Kong and Taiwan), and eight international airline flights, to Inchon, South Korea, Bangkok and Phuket, Thailand, and elsewhere.
