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Gelephu Airport
Gelephu Airport is located in Samtenling Gewog, about from the town of Gelephu in Sarpang District, Bhutan. The airport has been constructed on an area spanning over and came into regular use in late 2017. It is one of only four airports in Bhutan. History The airport was inaugurated in October 2012, but regular scheduled operations were delayed for five years due to its lack of certification from the Department of Civil Aviation of Bhutan and because of funding issues. The airport was originally planned as an international airport but the plan was shelved in 2008. In January 2015, The Department of Civil Aviation told ''Kuensel'' that the airport had been closed to scheduled flights due to the need to construct a new terminal building and control tower. A spokesperson said that it was hoped the new structures would be completed in February 2015, and at that point "from our side it’ll be eady toopen to scheduled flights." Despite this, it was reported that Drukair was not a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Civil Aviation Of Bhutan
The Department of Civil Aviation, or DCA, is a department of the Royal Government of Bhutan. The department is responsible for regulating aviation safety, airport regulation and providing air navigation services. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Information and Communications and has its head office in Paro, Bhutan, Paro. The department is empowered to carry out its functions under the Kingdom of Bhutan Civil Aviation Act 2000.Kingdom of BhutanThe Civil Aviation Act 2000() Retrieved 20 March 2012. History Aircraft have been operating in Bhutan since 1968. It was not until 1983 that Bhutan's national airline, Druk Air, established a unit to look after civil aviation matters. In order to comply with international requirements to have an independent aviation safety authority, the Department of Civil Aviation was established in January 1986. As a newly established agency, the department sought assistance from the International Civil Aviation Organization and the United Nations Deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asphalt Concrete
Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac, bitumen macadam, or rolled asphalt in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. Asphalt mixtures have been used in pavement construction since the beginning of the twentieth century. It consists of mineral aggregate bound together with asphalt, laid in layers, and compacted. The process was refined and enhanced by Belgian-American inventor Edward De Smedt. The terms ''asphalt'' (or ''asphaltic'') ''concrete'', ''bituminous asphalt concrete'', and ''bituminous mixture'' are typically used only in engineering and construction documents, which define concrete as any composite material composed of mineral aggregate adhered with a binder. The abbreviation, ''AC'', is sometimes used for ''asphalt concrete'' but can also denote ''asphalt content'' or ''asphalt cement'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samtenling Gewog
Samtenling Gewog (Dzongkha: བསམ་གཏན་གླིང་) is a gewog (village block) of Sarpang District, Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous .... References Gewogs of Bhutan Sarpang District {{coord missing, Bhutan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gelephu
Gelephu ( dz, དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུ་; Wylie: ''dge-legs-phu''), also spelled as Gelyephug, Gelegphu, Gaylegphug or Gaylephug, is a town or Thromde in Sarpang District in Bhutan. It is located on the Indian border, about 30 km to the east of Sarpang, the Dzongkhag (District) headquarters, and has a population of 9,858 as per the 2017 census. It is one of the road entry points into Bhutan from India: Phuntsholing to its west and Samdrup Jongkhar to its east are two other road entry points into Bhutan. History History of Gelephu dates back to 1960s when primitive settlement was shifted from the banks of Maw Chhu to the present area, which used to be known as Hati Sahar (Elephant infested place). On 5 September 2005, armed insurgents bombed a marketplace in the town, killing two people and injuring twenty-seven others. Planning area Gelephu Thromde has 11.52 km2 planning boundary area which can be increased further. It has 6 sub zones (Demkhong) listed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarpang District
Sarpang District (Dzongkha: གསར་སྤང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Gsar-spang rdzong-khag''; also known as "Geylegphug") is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Sarpang covers a total area of 1,946 sq km and stretches from Lhamoizhingkha in West Bhutan to Manas National Park in the east. Sarpang Dzongkhag is divided into one dungkhag, Gelephu, and 12 gewogs. Languages The dominant language in Sarpang is Nepali, an Indo-European language spoken by the heterogeneous Lhotshampa community. The East Bodish Kheng language is also spoken in the northeastern reaches of the district. Administrative divisions Sarpang District is currently divided into twelve village blocks (or '' gewogs''): * Chhuzagang Gewog * Chhudzom Gewog * Dekiling Gewog * Gakiling Gewog * Gelephu Gewog * Jigmechhoeling Gewog *Samtenling Gewog * Senghe Gewog * Serzhong Gewog * Shompangkha Gewog * Tareythang Gewog * Umling Gewog Environment Much of Sarpang District consists of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Airports In Bhutan
This is a list of airports in Bhutan, sorted by location. Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by Tibet. Bhutan was separated from the nearby state of Nepal to the west by the Indian state of Sikkim, and from Bangladesh to the south by West Bengal. The capital city is Thimphu. Airports Airport names shown in bold have scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines. Bagdogra Airport () in neighbouring India is also accessible for flights to Bhutan. See also * Transport in Bhutan * List of airports by ICAO code: V References * * Airports in BhutanWorld Aero Data Airports in BhutanGreat Circle Mapper FallingRain.com {{Asia in topic, List of airports in Bhutan Airports Airports Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Airport
An international airport is an airport with customs and border control facilities enabling passengers to travel between countries around the world. International airports are usually larger than domestic airports and they must feature longer runways and have facilities to accommodate the heavier aircraft such as the Boeing 747 commonly used for international and intercontinental travel. International airports often also host domestic flights, which often help feed both passengers and cargo into international ones (and vice versa). Buildings, operations and management have become increasingly sophisticated since the mid-20th century, when international airports began to provide infrastructure for international civilian flights. Detailed technical standards have been developed to ensure safety and common coding systems implemented to provide global consistency. The physical structures that serve millions of individual passengers and flights are among the most complex and interc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuensel
{{Contains special characters, Tibetan ''Kuensel'' ( dz, ཀུན་གསལ།, ''Clarity'') is the national newspaper of the Kingdom of Bhutan. It was the only local newspaper available in Bhutan until 2006 when two more newspapers were launched. The government of Bhutan owns 51% of Kuensel while 49% is held by the public. ''Kuensel'' is published in two language editions: Dzongkha (the national language) and English, everyday except Sunday with a total weekly circulation of more than 15,000 copies and an average weekly readership of 130,000. The paper is distributed throughout the country by a string of sales agents appointed in all the dzongkhags, dungkhags and towns, while subscribers overseas are fed through mail service/e-mail. Subscribers also get a PDF version of the paper. History Kuensel was founded in 1967 as an internal government bulletin. In 1974 a press machine was bought from India and installed in Thimphu. Soon Dzongkha letter blocks were prepared by J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drukair
Drukair Corporation Limited ( dz, འབྲུག་མཁའ་འགྲུལ་ལས་འཛིན།), operating as Drukair — Royal Bhutan Airlines, is the flag carrier of the Kingdom of Bhutan, headquartered in the western dzongkhag of Paro. Founded in 1981, ten years after Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck gradually began to open up the kingdom from self-imposed isolation, and seven years after welcoming its first foreign visitors, the airline commenced operations in 1983 with flights from Kolkata to Paro utilising Dornier 228 aircraft. A switch to BAe 146-100 equipment occurred in November 1988, and, in order to meet increased demand, those aircraft were replaced in 2004 with five Airbus A319s. Drukair operates a modest scheduled flight network within the South Asian and Southeast Asian region from its base at Paro Airport and currently serves thirteen destinations in six countries. The airline also owns a small fleet of four Airbus A320 family jets - three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathpalathang Airport
Bathpalathang Airport is a domestic Bhutanese airport in Jakar (Bjakar), Bumthang District. One of only List of airports in Bhutan, four airports in the country, it opened on 17 December 2011 with flights to Paro, Bhutan, Paro. The airport suspended operations in July 2012 due to runway damage, but it has since reopened to limited service. Overview The airport was in development from the Royal Bhutanese Government's 10th Five-Year Plans of Bhutan, Five Year Plan (2008). The airport was originally scheduled to open in October 2010, and then delayed to November 2010. By December 2010, operations were pushed back to March 2011, then April 2011. Shortages in the spring prompted a new target date of July 2011, however the airport had not yet opened for operations through late 2011. Airport construction at Bathpalathang met several delays, including soil instability under the runway, funding, labor and material shortages, and nearby river protection and diversion, each of which under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paro Airport
Paro International Airport ( dz, སྤ་རོ་གནམ་ཐང༌།, paro gnam thang) is the sole international airport of the four airports in Bhutan. It is from Paro in a deep valley on the bank of the river Paro Chhu. With surrounding peaks as high as , it is considered one of the world's most challenging airports, and only eight pilots are certified to land at the airport. Flights to and from Paro are allowed under visual meteorological conditions only and are restricted to daylight hours from sunrise to sunset. Paro airport was the only airport in Bhutan until 2011. Paro Airport is accessible by road, from Paro city, and from Thimphu by Paro-Thimphu road. History In 1968, the Indian Border Roads Organisation built an airstrip in the Paro valley, which was initially used for on-call helicopter operations by the Indian Armed Forces on behalf of the Royal Government of Bhutan. Bhutan's first airline, Drukair, was established by Royal Charter on 5 April 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transport In Bhutan
Transport in Bhutan uses about of roads and four airports, three of which are operational and interconnected. Paro Airport is the only airport which accommodates international flights. As part of Bhutan's infrastructure modernization programs, its road system has been under development since the 1960s. There are no railways (although one is planned) and, since Bhutan is a landlocked country without major waterways, there are no ports. Road Bhutan had a total of of roads in 2003, of which were paved and unpaved. Because of the lack of paved roads, travel in Bhutan was by foot or on mule- or horseback until 1961; the trip from the Indian border to Thimphu took six days. Road construction began in earnest during the First Development Plan (1961–66). The first paved road was completed in 1962. A branch road later linked Paro with the Phuntsholing–Thimphu road, and a jeep track linked Thimphu and Phuntsholing with Jaigaon, West Bengal. Travel time by motor vehicle from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
