Daocheng Yading Airport ( zh, 稻城亚丁机场, bo, འདབ་པའི་ཉི་བརྟེན་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་, ) is an airport serving

Daocheng County Daocheng County or Dapba in Tibetan (; ), historically Daoba (), is a county of western Sichuan Province, China, located in the eastern Hengduan Mountains. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture with an overwhe ...

in the

Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, often shortened to Ganzi Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture in the western arm of Sichuan province, China, bordering Yunnan to the south, the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west, and Gansu to the nor ...

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province, China. It is located in Sangdui Township, north of the county seat and from the

Yading Nyidên (Tibetan), or Yading (Mandarin transcription 亚丁), is a national level reserve in Daocheng County, in the southwest of Sichuan Province, China. It is a mountain sanctuary and major Tibetan pilgrimage site comprising three peaks sancti ...

Nature Reserve. At above sea level, Daocheng Yading is the highest civilian airport in the world. Construction started after the airport was approved in April 2011, with a total investment of 1.58 billion yuan (US$255 million). The airport was opened on 16 September 2013. The inaugural flight was

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Flight 4215 on an

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from the provincial capital

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...

, carrying 118 passengers. The opening of the airport cut the journey time between Daocheng and Chengdu to one hour, which previously required a two-day bus trip.

Facilities

Daocheng Yading Airport has a single runway that is long and wide (class 4C). It has a terminal building that is shaped like a

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with two

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s. It is designed to handle 280,000 passengers per year.

Airlines and destinations

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Photos of the airport on its opening day
*Video of take off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgJdVgoF3m0 {{authority control Airports in Sichuan Buildings and structures in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Airports established in 2013 2013 establishments in China

Facilities

Airlines and destinations

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