Lhasa Gonggar Airport
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Lhasa Gonggar Airport 拉萨贡嘎机场 ལྷ་ས་གོང་དཀར་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང། Lāsà Gònggá Jīchǎng lha sa gong dkar gnam gru thang |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Lhasa, Shannan | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Gonggar County, Shannan, Tibet, China | ||||||||||||||
| Hub for | Tibet Airlines | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,570 m / 11,713 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°17′52″N 090°54′43″E / 29.29778°N 90.91194°ECoordinates: 29°17′52″N 090°54′43″E / 29.29778°N 90.91194°E | ||||||||||||||
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 LXA
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| Traditional Chinese | 拉薩貢嘎機場 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 拉萨贡嘎机场 | ||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lāsà Gònggá Jīchǎng | ||||||||||||
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| Tibetan | ལྷ་ས་གོང་དཀར་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང། | ||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lāsà Gònggá Jīchǎng |
| Wade–Giles | la1sa4 gong4ga2 ji1ch'ang3 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | laai1saat3 gong4ga2 ji1cheung4 |
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| Wylie | lha sa gong dkar gnam gru thang |
| THDL | lha sa gong kar nam gru tang |
| Tibetan Pinyin | Lhasa Konggar |
Lhasa Gonggar Airport (Chinese: 拉萨贡嘎机场, Standard Tibetan: ལྷ་ས་གོང་དཀར་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་; IATA: LXA, ICAO: ZULS) is the airport serving Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is about 62 kilometres (39 mi) southwest of the city in Gonggar County of Shannan. The airport is close to the road to Tsetang, the seat of Nêdong District and the capital of Shannan.
At an elevation of 3,570 metres (11,710 ft), Lhasa Airport is one of the highest in the world. It was built in 1965, a second runway was built in 1994, and terminal facilities were upgraded in 2004.
Building an airport in Tibet, which is termed in flying parlance as going over a "hump" in the Tibetan Plateau, has gone through a process of trial and error through many hazardous air routes and several fatal accidents during World War II. The first airport was built in May 1956, in the southwest of Damxung County at a height of 4,200 metres (13,800 ft). An Ilyushin Il-12 and a Convair CV-240-401 were the first aircraft that landed at Damxung airport from the north and south. They thus broke the jinx of the "forbidden air zone", and this was acclaimed a feat. It took almost nine more years before the first Beijing-Chengdu-Lhasa air route became operational in 1965.
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