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Xi'an Xianyang Airport Security Wait Times (XIY): What to Expect - HonestAirport

Xi'an Xianyang International Airport (XIY)

XIY

Xi'an Xianyang International Airport security wait times

What a normal day looks like at security here, and how to get through faster.

Flying from XIY?

Enter your flight for a door-to-door plan: when to leave, security, the lounge you can use and your gate. No account needed.

On a typical day

~15 min through security at XIY, from our airport directory. Early mornings and holiday weekends run longer.

Budget that on top of check-in or bag drop and the walk to your gate. For your exact leave-home time, enter your flight above: the plan uses the live wait when there is one.

Budget the rainbow shuttle if the ticket and the kerb disagree. T2/T3 and T5 are separate landside halls. Metro Line 14 links them; the rainbow shuttle leftover-prints 24 hours from T5 door 512 / T3 door 316 / T2 door 213 at about 10 minutes.

How to get through faster at XIY

Use 易安检 on T5 S06/S22 — then treat 15 minutes as a working figure
Leftover channels T5 S06/S22, T3 S329, T2 S201, 06:00–21:00. No published XIY SLA.
English leftover “China Eastern No.39 Lounge” is T5 V22 at Gate 149. Walk there; do not hunt a V39 door. First/business leftover-print V20 东方·锦晟 on 4F — elevator past Starbucks / Coach hoarding after domestic security — which live PP does not open.
T5 leftover-prints the West Airport Museum (西部机场博物馆) on the landside 4F / 古建层, opened 26 Feb 2025 with 121 construction-find objects. Useful on a long landside wait; it is not a security shortcut and is not airside.
T5 is a main building plus six piers. After domestic security, leftover signs split 101–127 vs 156–194. MU V22 is Gate 149. CZ 木棉阁 leftover JK / 170s. International leftover-prints a separate CIQ stack; you cannot walk from Gate 149 to the T5 international PP room without exiting.