Airport in Tibet, China
Location of airport in Tibet
Runways |
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Direction | Length | Surface | m | ft | 09/27 | 5,000 | 16,404 | Concrete | 07/25 | 3,000 | 9,843 | Concrete | |
Statistics (2021) |
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Passengers | 144,870 |
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Aircraft movements | 1,804 |
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Cargo (metric tons) | 528.9 |
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Shigatse Peace Airport |
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Chinese name |
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Simplified Chinese | 日喀则和平机场 |
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Traditional Chinese | 日喀則和平機場 |
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Transcriptions |
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Standard Mandarin |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Rìkāzé Hépíng Jīchǎng |
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Tibetan name |
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Tibetan | གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་ཞི་བདེ་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང། |
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Transcriptions |
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Wylie | gzhis ka rtse zhi bde gnam gru thang |
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Rikaze (Shigatse) Peace Airport (IATA: RKZ, ICAO: ZURK), Shigatse Heping Airport, or Shigatse Air Base, is a dual-use military and civilian airport serving Shigatse, the second largest city in Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is located in Jangdam Township,[2] 43 kilometres (27 mi) from Shigatse. Situated at an elevation of 3,782 metres (12,408 ft), it is one of the highest airports in the world.[2]
Construction of Shigatse Airport started in 1968 and was completed in 1973. It was solely for military use until 2010, when a 532 million yuan expansion was completed. On 30 October 2010, the airport was opened as the fifth civilian airport in Tibet.[3]
Facilities
The airport has a 5,000-metre (16,000 ft) runway with a 60-metre (200 ft) asphalt overrun at each end. It is the longest public runway in the world (tied with Ulyanovsk Vostochny Airport).[citation needed] It also features a 4,500-square-metre (48,000 sq ft) terminal building. It is projected to handle 230,000 passengers and 1,150 tonnes (1,130 long tons; 1,270 short tons) of cargo annually by 2020.[3][1]
Around 2017, a new runway of approximately 3,000 metres (9,840 ft) was constructed. Guizhou WZ-7 Soaring Dragon UAVs were seen hosted by this runway. The runway is located at the west-end of its primary runway.[4]
Gallery
Airlines and destinations
Map and location markers
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Runway 1 (16,404ft)
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Runway 2 (9,843ft)
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Main Terminal
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Air Traffic Control tower
See also
References
- ^ a b Airport information for Shigatse Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
- ^ a b 西藏第五个民用机场日喀则机场正式通航 (in Chinese (China)). Xinhua. 2010-10-30. Archived from the original on November 2, 2010.
- ^ a b 西藏第五个民用机场日喀则机场正式通航 (in Chinese (China)). Xinhua. 2010-10-30. Archived from the original on November 2, 2010.
- ^ Team, Bellingcat Investigation (2017-11-28). "China's Shigatse Gets New Infrastructure". bellingcat. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ "China West Air flight PN6450". Flightradar24.
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