Tibet Airlines (; , abbreviated ) is an

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with its corporate headquarters and

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Lhasa Lhasa (; Lhasa dialect: ; bo, text=ལྷ་ས, translation=Place of Gods) is the urban center of the prefecture-level Lhasa City and the administrative capital of Tibet Autonomous Region in Southwest China. The inner urban area of Lhas ...

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China. It was overlayed on the traditional Tibetan regions of � ...

, and operates scheduled domestic flights out of

Lhasa Gonggar Airport Lhasa Gonggar Airport (, bo, ལྷ་ས་གོང་དཀར་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་; ) is the airport serving Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. It is about to Lhasa and abou ...

History

Tibet Airlines was approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China in March 2010. It originally ordered three

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A319 airliners, receiving its first aircraft on 2 July 2011. The airline commenced its inaugural route from

to Ngari Gunsa Airport on 26 July 2011 and began flights to

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and

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later that year. The airline also announced plans to start direct flights to

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by 2016. In February 2011, ''

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'' reported that the airline was interested in starting operations in

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and other countries in South and South East Asia. The first international flight of Tibet Airlines was launched on 1 July 2016, connecting

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and Samui Airport in Thailand. In September 2016, the airline confirmed that they had received permission to launch service to the Black Sea resort of Sochi from Sanya via Chengdu, starting in 2017. On 8 January 2019, Finnish airport operator Finavia announced that Tibet Airlines will open a new route between Jinan, Shandong Province and

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in April 2019. The route is to be operated twice weekly with

A330 equipment.

Corporate affairs

The airline has its head office and its

in the Lhasa Economic and Technological Development Zone (),() in

. It also has an office in

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese pro ...

Destinations

Fleet

, Tibet Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Incidents and accidents

* On 12 May 2022, Tibet Airlines Flight 9833, an Airbus A319-100, veered off the runway on takeoff in

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, causing a fire. All of the passengers and crew members on board survived, with only minor injuries sustained from the evacuation.

References

External links

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