# Heihe Aihui Airport (HEK)

> Heihe, CN · IATA: HEK · ICAO: ZYHE · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `HEK` |
| ICAO | `ZYHE` |
| City | Heihe |
| Country | CN |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 319 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 50.17162, 127.30888 |

## Description

Heihe Aihui Airport (HEK/ZYHE) handled 140.5 tonnes of cargo in 2025 - a figure that describes its freight role more precisely than any adjective. The field, 17 km south-west of Heihe in Heilongjiang, is a domestic passenger airport served by China Southern, China Eastern, Hainan Airlines, Shandong Airlines, Chengdu Airlines, Okay Airways and Sichuan Airlines, and freight moves as belly load. Heihe faces the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk across the Amur, and between 1994 and 1998 a nine-minute charter hopped the river from here, long cited as the world's shortest international air route. Cross-border trade today does not use the airport: it crosses the Heihe-Blagoveshchensk road bridge opened in 2022, the first fixed road link between China and Russia, and the seasonal river traffic, with customs handled at those border posts. For airfreight, forwarders work through Harbin Taiping (HRB) roughly 570 road kilometres to the south, the cargo airport of Heilongjiang province, with Blagoveshchensk Ignatyevo (BQS) as the option on the Russian side.

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