Alxa Left Banner Bayanhot Airport is a regional airport serving

Bayanhot Alxa Left Banner ( Mongolian: ''Alaša Jegün qosiɣu'', Cyrillic: Алшаа зүүн хошуу; ) is a banner (administrative division) in the southwest of Inner Mongolia, China. It borders the Republic of Mongolia's Ömnögovi Province to t ...

, the main urban center of

Alxa Left Banner Alxa Left Banner ( Mongolian: ''Alaša Jegün qosiɣu'', Cyrillic: Алшаа зүүн хошуу; ) is a banner (administrative division) in the southwest of Inner Mongolia, China. It borders the Republic of Mongolia's Ömnögovi Province to t ...

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

, China.

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Bayanhot Airport is one of the three airports of

Alxa League Alxa League or Ālāshàn League (; mn, , Mongolian Cyrillic. Алшаа аймаг) is one of 12 prefecture level divisions and 3 extant leagues of Inner Mongolia. The league borders Mongolia to the north, Bayan Nur to the northeast, Wuhai ...

in western Inner Mongolia, the other two being

Alxa Right Banner Badanjilin Airport Alxa Right Banner Badanjilin Airport () is a regional airport serving the town of Badanjilin, the seat of Alxa Right Banner in Inner Mongolia, China. Overview Badanjilin Airport is one of the three airports of Alxa League in western Inner Mongo ...

and Ejin Banner Taolai Airport. The three airports form a commuter airport network that connects the three banners of Alxa League, which covers a vast area () of the

Gobi Desert The Gobi Desert (Chinese: 戈壁 (沙漠), Mongolian: Говь (ᠭᠣᠪᠢ)) () is a large desert or brushland region in East Asia, and is the sixth largest desert in the world. Geography The Gobi measures from southwest to northeast an ...

. Construction for the airports started in August 2012, with a total investment of 389.5 million yuan, and all three airports opened on 17 December 2013. All three airports are classified 3C, suitable for 50-seat aircraft such as the

Xian MA60 The Xian MA60 (新舟60, ''Xīnzhōu liùshí'', "Modern Ark 60") is a turboprop-powered airliner produced by China's Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation under the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). The MA60 is a stretched version ...

. Bayanhot is the biggest among the three, and it is projected to handle 250,000 passengers annually by 2020, compared with 80,000 for Taolai and 45,000 for Badanjilin.

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