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Xi'an, CN
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Xi'an, China · Asia-Pacific
A brand-new T5 plus Metro Line 14 and a 24-hour international Priority Pass room, paid for with a three-hall airline map, leftover PP pins that still send CZ to T3, and unpublished annual on-time stats.
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Xi'an, China · Asia-Pacific
A brand-new T5 plus Metro Line 14 and a 24-hour international Priority Pass room, paid for with a three-hall airline map, leftover PP pins that still send CZ to T3, and unpublished annual on-time stats.
An editorial 0–10 score. The overall is exactly the weighted sum of six traveler categories — not a Google rating and not a poll.
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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.
MU leftover-prints domestic check-in from 90 minutes before the first departure until 30 minutes before STD, and international/regional from 3 hours to 40 minutes before STD. T5’s six piers are a long walk after security — a 3xx-style trap is the far M/J/K gate, not a satellite train.
Landside is T2, T3 or T5. Every international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan flight leftover-prints T5 from 20 Feb 2025 05:00.
From 24 Dec 2025 22:00, CZ/MF/3U/RY/NS/OQ/9C domestic also leftover-print T5 (CZ/MF/3U/RY/NS/OQ at 3F L, 9C at 3F K; MU/FM/KN at 3F B/C and 2F N premium). Wikipedia leftover four-terminal operations counts a mothballed T1. Official 机场概况 leftover that still prints two runways is stale against the 25 Dec 2025 south-2 opening.
DragonPass leftover-prints 同盛祥 on the T5 airside north commercial street, 太二酸菜鱼 at the east-1 pier mouth, and 白鹿原 at the west-2 pier mouth — credits Priority Pass does not share.
McDonald’s leftover-prints airside near T5 gates 127 and 177. T3 still leftover-prints 子午路张记 near H30 and 陇兴楼 at H54. Official leftover-prints drinking fountains with cups in passenger concentrations; fill after security.
Live Priority Pass 18 Sep 2026 leftover-prints a 24-hour International First Class Lounge in T5 south wing 3F after passport control. English leftover “China Eastern No.39” is the T5 V22 room at Gate 149.
CZ domestic left T3 on 24 Dec 2025; the live Sky Pearl 木棉阁 opened with the T5 JK-area ceremony on 25 Dec 2025. Live PP still leftover-prints a China Southern VIP Lounge at T3 Gate 40 — treat that pin as stale until PP moves it. Air Changan V36 (PP leftover still titled V38) is T3 south concourse 2.
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Wayfinding, security wait, and layout.
Seating, Wi-Fi, cleanliness, and quiet.
Food and retail quality and variety.
Transit, taxi, and parking to the city.
Delays, cancellations, and weather resilience.
Worth-it density and access quality.
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Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, the Xian city center, and Xi'an Xiguan Airport (SIA)
4 ways into the city, compared on time, cost, and luggage.
6 lounges with access rules, hours, and verdicts. 2 rated worth it.
Read the IATA airline, not the alliance, before you pick a hall. SkyTeam is split: MU/FM/KN and CZ are T5; KE/OZ internationals leftover-print T5 E; HU Group is T3. Star Alliance CA/ZH leftover-print T2. A “SkyTeam connection” can still need the rainbow shuttle.
6 rated amenities — food, Wi-Fi, quiet spots, family, and sleep.
Where to refill for free, and where a bottle costs the least airside.
Editorial and traveler reviews — what people actually complain about.
Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, the Xian city center, and Xi'an Xiguan Airport (SIA)
Compare prepaid private transfers to Xian — useful overnight, with luggage, or when you want a locked-in fare before you land.
T5 station under the GTC from 18 Feb 2025; Airport West for T2/T3. Leftover ¥7 to 北客站（北广场）.
Tip: T5 last toward Airport West leftover 23:22; Airport West last toward 贺韶 leftover 22:20. Free Airport West ↔ T5 hop leftover-prints with a boarding pass at the ticket office. Not 24 hours.
Official leftover Bell Tower ~37 km, Xi'an North ~27 km, Xianyang station ~17 km. Meter plus expressway toll.
Tip: Night 23:00–06:00 leftover +¥0.3/km plus the 12 km return-empty surcharge on Xi'an plates. Ignore touts in the hall. T5 leftover door 501 on B1, not the 3F check-in kerb.
Leftover ¥25 Xi'an / ¥15 Xianyang. Bell Tower Hotel 南大街 110 leftover west line to T5/T2/T3.
Tip: Useful after Line 14 closes. Night leftover 守航夜宵 from 22:20. Confirm the live WeChat board — printed PDFs drift after every T5 timetable rewrite.
Outdoor small car leftover ¥1.5 / 15 min, ¥60 / 24 h; indoor leftover ¥1.75 / 15 min, ¥70 / 24 h.
Tip: One 30-minute free stop per 24 hours; the second visit charges. Hotline leftover 029-88796274. Do not kerb-park in front of T5 — leftover tow.
Live PP leftover-prints 3.7/5 from 62 reviews, opposite Gate 10. T2 is now the CA/ZH/SC island — do not follow leftover HU/9H directions here.
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Add a photoLive PP English leftover still titles this V38. Follow H10 / south concourse 2, not the old H30 lift leftover.
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Add a photoUnrestricted airside PP on T3. Live PP leftover-prints 3.5/5 from 118 reviews. The Gate 40 room that still belongs here after CZ moved.
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Add a photoLive PP leftover-prints 4.7/5 from 109 reviews. English leftover still titles this “No.39 Lounge”. First/business leftover-print V20 on 4F, which is not on PP.
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Add a photoLive room is T5 木棉阁 from 25 Dec 2025. Live PP still leftover-prints T3 Gate 40. Walk to T5; do not ride the rainbow shuttle to T3 for this lounge.
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Add a photoThe only live international PP pin. After T5 security and immigration, 3F south wing. 2-hour stay. CEAir leftover-prints the same contract room as V35 迅邦达.
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Add a photo机场（T5） under the T5 GTC from 18 Feb 2025; 机场西 for T2/T3. Leftover ¥7 to 北客站（北广场）, about 31 minutes riding.
Live PP leftover-prints the International First Class Lounge on T5 3F south wing after passport control, 00:00–23:59, 2-hour stay, showers.
DragonPass leftover-prints 同盛祥, 太二酸菜鱼, 白鹿原 and 余记米线 on the T5 airside north commercial block; McDonald’s leftover Gates 127 and 177.
DragonPass leftover-prints paid 眯一会 rooms at T5 2F / 1F / B1 plus T2 door 214 and T3 door 312 — landside, before security.
Landside T5 leftover 古建层 museum opened 26 Feb 2025 with 121 construction-find objects. Useful on a long wait; not airside.
Huashang leftover-prints dense 母婴室 in T5; Xinhua leftover-prints charging seats and charging bars across T2/T3/T5. Official English leftover still lists pay phones — ignore it.
Internationals and MU/CZ/9C domestic leftover-print T5. Hainan Group leftover-prints T3. Air China leftover-prints T2.
The 24 Dec 2025 22:00 leftover moved CZ/MF/3U/RY/NS/OQ/9C from T3 to T5. Official FAQ leftover that still parks HU on T2 and MU on T3 is pre-T5. T1 is not a check-in hall.
Line 14 now stops under T5 as well as T2/T3.
A leftover booking that still prints T3 for CZ will put you on the rainbow shuttle.
English leftover “No.39” is V22 at Gate 149. Live PP’s T3 Southern pin is stale after 24 Dec 2025.
International PP is the T5 3F south-wing room, 24 hours, 2-hour stay. V22 is MU/FM/KN/SkyTeam domestic only (4.7/5 from 109 PP reviews). V20 4F is first/business, not PP.
XIY actually has an international PP pin, unlike KMG.
A HU boarding pass cannot walk into V22, and a CZ boarding pass should not ride to T3 for the Southern room.
Leftover ¥7 / ~31 minutes riding to 北客站（北广场）. Last Airport West city-bound leftover 22:20.
T5 station last toward Airport West leftover 23:22. Official taxi leftover Bell Tower ~37 km, flag ¥8.5 / 3 km plus expressway. Parking leftover indoor ¥70 / 24 h from 1 Sep 2025.
T5 metro is in the GTC, not a shuttle ride.
Line 14 is not 24 hours. Overnight banks need the night coach, taxi, or P5A rideshare.
Leftover channels T5 S06/S22, T3 S329, T2 S201, 06:00–21:00. No published XIY SLA.
Apr 2025 leftover auto-reserve on Alipay 民航公安服务. International CIQ is a separate T5 stack. 240-hour TWOV is a border interview. 24-hour airside direct transit can skip inspection only if you never leave the port area.
T5 leftover-prints face-gate domestic processing.
易安检 is domestic-only and closes at 21:00 leftover.
Official leftover-prints fountains with cups. DragonPass leftover-prints 同盛祥 / 太二 credits PP does not share.
McDonald’s leftover Gates 127 and 177. T2 V22 is a soft-drink PP room — do not eat there if T5 is an option. Landside 眯一会 is for sleep, not soup.
Passenger concentrations after T5 domestic security, including the north commercial street (同盛祥 cluster) and the 7.5 m north food block to the right of security
Official leftover-prints self-service fountains with envelope cups plus cold/hot spouts in passenger concentrations. Best value is filling after T5 security, not buying a bottle landside.
Official English leftover-prints water dispensers in T2, T3 and the T2/T3 GTC; fill airside near Gate 10 (T2) or Gate 40 (T3) rather than at the landside GTC
Same official leftover as T5: envelope-cup machines and cold/hot spouts. T2/T3 fountains are the fallback when you never see T5.
McDonald’s leftover-prints next to Gate 127 (north-2 pier) and Gate 177
Buy here only if you cannot carry an empty bottle through security. The fountain two seats away is still the cheaper pour.
Landside 2F food block outside domestic security (DragonPass leftover 麻六记酸辣粉 cluster)
Landside bottle for the rainbow-shuttle / Line 14 wait. Once airside, switch to the fountain. P5A B1 rideshare waiting room leftover-prints its own fountain if you are arriving, not departing.
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