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Founded | 2010 | ||||||
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Hubs | Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport | ||||||
Fleet size | 19 | ||||||
Destinations | 24 | ||||||
Parent company | Air China | ||||||
Headquarters | Lhasa, Tibet, China | ||||||
Key people | Liu Yanping, General Manager | ||||||
Website | http://www.tibetairlines.com.cn |
Tibet Airlines (Chinese: 西藏航空公司; pinyin: ; Tibetan: བོད་ལྗོངས་མཁའ་འགྲུལ།, Wylie: bod ljongs mkha' 'grul) is an airline with its corporate headquarters and registered office in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, and operates scheduled domestic flights out of Lhasa Gonggar Airport.
Tibet Airlines was approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China in March 2010. It originally ordered three Airbus A319 airliners, receiving its first aircraft on 2 July 2011.
The airline commenced its inaugural route from Lhasa Gonggar Airport to Ngari Gunsa Airport on 26 July 2011 and began flights to Beijing and Shanghai later that year. The airline also announced plans to start direct flights to Europe by 2016. In February 2011, the Times of India reported that the airline was interested in starting operations in India and other countries in South and South East Asia.