In June, 1.08m passenger journeys were made via Chongqing Airport. This represented a 40 per cent increase on the same month in 2008. Freight volume grew 10 per cent to 12,000 tons.

The airport has at least 15 daily connections to the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and there are international connections to Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Thailand and Malaysia.