Getting from Xuzhou Guanyin International Airport to the city

Where this airport actually is

• Xuzhou Guanyin is 40 km southeast of Xuzhou city. The airport's own parking notice gives the address as Shuanggou town, Suining county, which is a different county from the one most visitors think they are landing in. Motorways and a national road run to the door, but nothing walks.
• It opened on 8 November 1997, has a 3400 metre runway, 22 stands and a 58,000 square metre terminal, and is rated 4D.

The fare nobody has updated

• The airport publishes its coach timetable on a page stamped 20 January 2022. That page says the city line from Xuzhou Bus Terminal, beside the old railway station, costs 25 yuan.
• A timetable published on 30 April 2026 by a Xuzhou travel publisher gives the same line at 30 yuan, with a denser clock (extra runs at 11:30, 13:30, 15:30 and 17:30) and a last departure at 20:00 rather than 19:00.
• The two sources disagree and neither has been superseded on the airport's own site. Budget 30 yuan and treat the airport page as the older of the two.
• The same split applies to the door-to-door service: 40 yuan on the airport page, 35 yuan on the 2026 one.

The two city lines

• Xuzhou Bus Terminal (old railway station) to the airport, via the ceramics market and the south bus station. First departure 06:00.
• Xuzhou East bus station (high-speed railway station) to the airport, via Midea Plaza, in a minibus. First departure 08:40.
• Return coaches are dispatched as flights land, adjusted to the actual arrival time, so there is no published clock for the airport to city direction. Ask at the ticket desk in arrivals.

The regional network, which is the real story

• Xuzhou Guanyin feeds a catchment across four provinces. Scheduled coaches run from Fengxian (70 yuan), Peixian (60), Xinyi (60 to 66), Pizhou (40), Suqian (50), Zaozhuang high-speed station (60), Lianyungang (120), Yongcheng (100), Huaibei (80) and Suzhou (60).
• Eleven city check-in terminals sell these tickets and act as the town-end stop, in Jiangsu, Henan, Shandong and Anhui: Fengxian, Yongcheng, Xiayi, Suining, Zaozhuang, Shangqiu, Xiaoxian, Lingbi, Suzhou, Dangshan and Huaibei.
• If you are boarding at an intermediate stop rather than a terminus, buy the ticket on the coach, which is what the airport tells passengers to do.
• Enquiries and complaints: 0516 83707677, working hours 08:30 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00.

The station that is not at the airport

• The Xu Su Huai Yan high-speed railway opened a station called Guanyin Airport. On a map that looks like a rail link to the terminal. It is a separate site, and the airport runs a paid shuttle between the two.
• The shuttle is 3 yuan a trip. Its timetable is rebuilt every day from the train timetable.
• Leaving the airport: the shuttle departs the terminal 30 minutes before each train departs, and the vehicle arrives at the pick-up point 40 minutes before. The pick-up is the car park in front of the terminal building.
• Arriving by train: the shuttle leaves the station 15 minutes after each train gets in, 12 times a day, from the car park outside the station exit.
• Because both directions are pinned to trains and not to a clock, a delayed flight can leave you with no shuttle until the next train. The city coaches from the terminal are the fallback.
• Xuzhou's high-speed stations are Xuzhou East, Xinyi South, Suining, Guanyin Airport and Pizhou East. The airport also runs coaches to Xuzhou East and to Xuzhou station in the city.

Taxis and cars

• The taxi rank is outside the T2 arrivals hall on the ground floor, 15 metres to the right-front of door 2. Queue there rather than accepting an approach inside.
• Fares are the Xuzhou city meter, with the low-speed and fuel surcharges added as regulated and tolls paid by the passenger. Keep the meter receipt and the vehicle number; complaints go to 12345 or the transport line 12328.
• Car hire desks are under the west viaduct beside T2.
• Charging: the C3 zone of the car park in front of T2 has six large units serving up to 48 electric cars at once.

Parking

• Free for the first 30 minutes. After that, a blue or black plate pays 5 yuan for up to two hours, then 2 yuan per started half hour, with a 30 yuan ceiling in 24 hours; beyond 24 hours the count restarts.
• Yellow plates pay 10 yuan for two hours, 3 yuan per half hour after, capped at 60.
• 1800 spaces over 60,000 square metres, of which 36 are for disabled drivers and 105 have charging. A disabled driver's vehicle displaying the police-issued plate parks free.
• Accessible bays can be reserved on 17712980900, which also takes car park enquiries.