Baoji City International Airport (BAIA) is the largest airport in South Baoji and one of the largest in the world, being the tenth busiest in Baoji and one of the 30 busiest worldwide. Located in Baoji City, in the Peninsular Metro Area, the airport complex covers an area of 10 square kilometers and has its own road access system. Highway SB-222 runs along part of the airport perimeter, connecting to the Presidente Carvalho (SB-092) and São Lucas (SB-010) highways. The entire passenger infrastructure is divided into three terminals, totaling 243 check-in points.
It was voted one of the best in the world by the Roblox Airport Avaliation, and is also home to 5 airlines. Founded as a domestic airport in 1990, it has since undergone expansions and numerous improvements due to the increased passenger flow from all over the world. It is also known for a plane that crashed before reaching its destination when it was scheduled to land there.
It primarily serves destinations in Eastern Eurobloxia, Baoji, Eastern Bloxveld, and Northern Aquaria, also having flights to Robloxia, Bloxanada, Bloxrazil, and Bloxile. It is the largest airport in the country and serves most of the passenger traffic from northern South Baoji. Many inhabitants of islands without nearby airports also travel by boat to catch flights from the airport for international travel or to destinations in South Baoji.
History
The airport was officially founded in 1992 as a regional airport. By 2000, it had received its second runway, becoming a national airport, and had undergone some expansion and modernization. Since 2000, it has been an international airport since 2008, gaining its third runway in 2009. It was modernized and expanded between 2010 and 2011. Furthermore, in 2014, the airport was elected the Most Modern Airport in Southern Baoji, a title it still holds today. In 2015, it was the site of a serious collision between two cargo planes; neither pilot was injured, but the cargo nearly struck one of the terminals. In 2017, it received its third terminal; the second had been added in 2003.
In 2018, the airport recorded a record average of 10,000 flights per year for the first time, due to the large influx of tourists from Aquaria who landed there to visit and then travel to Tovokia. To see the 2018 FAFI Roblox Cup, in 2019, a major flood disrupted air traffic throughout the region, closing the airport for a week. It recovered in July. In 2020, due to the COVID pandemic, the airport remained closed for most of the time to passenger flights, reopening in December 2020. Between 2021-2026, not much happened, only a modernization of Terminal 2 of the airport and a redesign of a wing of Terminal 1.