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Daocheng Yading Airport
Daocheng Yading Airport is an airport serving Daocheng County in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province, China. It is located in Sangdui Township, north of the county seat and from the Yading 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 Air China Flight 4215 on an Airbus A319 from the provincial capital Chengdu, 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 flying saucer with two aerobridges. It is designed to handle 280,000 passengers per year. A ...
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Daocheng County
Daocheng County or Dapba in Tibetan (; zh, s=稻城县) 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 overwhelmingly Tibetan population. Its latitude ranges from 27° 58' to 29° 30' N and longitude 99° 56' to 100° 36', and reaches in north–south extent and in east–west width, with elevations ranging from . Daocheng Yading Airport, the world's highest airport, is located in Daocheng County. History The explorer Joseph Rock departed from Lijiang in 1928 and visited Daocheng. After the fall of the Qing dynasty, Xiangcheng and Daocheng fell into chaos. Daocheng was controlled by local chiefs centered in Daoba and the Gangkarling ( zh, labels=no , s=贡噶岭 , p=Gònggálǐng) region from 1930s to 1950s."乡城、稻城土头统治的由来及其嬗变" by 秦和平 Administrative Divisions Daocheng County is divided into 5 towns and 8 township ...
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Chengdu Tianfu International Airport
Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (; also known as Tianfu Airport) is one of two international airports serving Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwestern China. It was planned in 2013 and opened in 2021 as Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, Chengdu Shuangliu Airport was exceeding its designed maximum passenger capacity for years. The airport is located at Lujia Town of Jianyang, Sichuan, Jianyang, southeast of downtown Chengdu. The construction of this airport began in May 2016, and the airport opened in June 2021. Chengdu is the third city in China to have dual international airports after Beijing and Shanghai. In 2023, Chengdu Tianfu International Airport and Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport together handled a total of 538,000 flight takeoffs and landings, with a passenger volume of 74.924 million. The annual passenger volume makes Chengdu 3rd among the cities with airport systems in China. Chengdu Tianfu International Airport alone ranks List ...
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Buildings And Structures In The Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practi ...
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Airports In Sichuan
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off and to land or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals, to maintain and monitor aircraft. Larger airports may have airport aprons, taxiway bridges, air traffic control centres, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services. In some countries, the US in particular, airports also typically have one or more fixed-base operators, serving general aviation. Airport operations are extremely complex, with a complicated system of aircraft support services, passenger services, and aircraft control services contained within the operation. Thus airports can be major employers, as well as important hubs for tourism and o ...
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Qamdo Bamda Airport
Changdu Bangda Airport , also known as Qamdo Bamda Airport, is an airport serving Qamdo (Changdu), Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is located in the village of Bamda (Bangda). Background At an elevation of above sea level, Qamdo Airport was formerly the highest airport in the world. It was surpassed by Daocheng Yading Airport, with an elevation of , on 16 September 2013. It has a very long runway, , a necessary feature to accommodate the reduced engine and lift performance that affect aircraft at high altitude, requiring higher than normal takeoff speeds and therefore longer takeoff and landing runs. Runway repairs took place in 2007 and 2013 after decay from the weather. A new runway was built, and the original runway was closed. Airlines and destinations See also *List of airports in China *List of the busiest airports in China China's busiest airports are a series of lists ranking the 100 busiest airports in Mainland China according to the number of total ...
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List Of The Busiest Airports In China
China's busiest airports are a series of lists ranking the 100 busiest airports in Mainland China according to the number of total passengers, including statistics for total aircraft movements and total cargo movements, following the official register yearly since 2000. The data here presented are provided by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and these statistics do not include the results for the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, or the country of Taiwan, ROC. Both Hong Kong and Macau have their own civil aviation regulators (the Civil Aviation Department and the Civil Aviation Authority respectively); Taiwan also has its own civil aviation regulator (the Aviation Safety Council). The lists are presented in chronological order starting from the latest year. The number of total passengers is measured in persons and includes any passenger that arrives or departs from, or transits through, every airport in the country. The number of tota ...
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List Of Airports In China
This is a list of public airports in the People's Republic of China grouped by Provinces of China, provincial-level division and sorted by main city or county served. It includes civil airports and certified general airports, but excludes general airports filed under principle B, defunct airports and List of People's Liberation Army Air Force airbases, military air bases. The names mentioned in the table are officially named by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The Aerodrome Reference Code (ARC) was officially stated by "License for Civil/General Airport". The characters between international airport and national airport were published by General Administration of Customs, General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China (GACC). , there were 259 certified civil airports and 106 certified general airports. , the State Council of the People's Republic of China established 83 aviation ports (involving 86 airports), and the Civil Aviation Administr ...
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Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport
Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport is the main international airport serving the city of Chongqing in Southwestern China. It is located in Yubei, Chongqing, about north of the Chongqing urban center. The airport is a major aviation hub for airlines in western China, including China Express Airlines, China Southern Airlines (Chongqing Airlines), Sichuan Airlines, Shandong Airlines, XiamenAir and West Air (China), West Air. Chongqing is a focus city of Air China and Hainan Airlines. Jiangbei Airport has undergone multiple major expansions. The latest expansion involves a new satellite terminal (Terminal 3B) and a fourth runway, both of which have finished construction as of 2025. The first, second, and third phases of the airport came into operation in January 1990, December 2004, and December 2010, respectively. Terminal 2 is capable of handling 15 million passengers and Terminal 3A 45 million passengers annually. It was the List of the busiest airports in China, seco ...
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Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport
Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (; traditionally as Chengdu Airport) is one of two international airports serving Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwestern China, with the other being Chengdu Tianfu International Airport. Built in 1938 and expanded eight times since, it is one of the oldest airports in China. Located about southwest of downtown Chengdu to the north of Shuangliu, Chengdu, Shuangliu, Chengdu Shuangliu Airport is an important aviation hub for Western China. It is one of the two core hubs for Air China, the other being Beijing Capital International Airport. The airport is also the principal hub and headquarters for Sichuan Airlines and Chengdu Airlines. China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Lucky Air, and Tibet Airlines also have bases at Chengdu Shuangliu Airport. History Republican era The airport, formerly named Shuangguisi Airport, opened as a military-owned airport in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japan ...
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Sichuan Airlines
Sichuan Airlines is the largest airline in Western China, headquartered in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. The airline is based in Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, operating mainly scheduled domestic and international flights out of Chengdu Shuangliu Airport, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport and Kunming Changshui International Airport. Sichuan Airlines is also the first airline in mainland China to operate the Airbus A320 and among the first batch of airlines in mainland China to receive the Airbus A350. History The airline was established on 19 September 1986 as Sichuan Airlines Company, its first flight was on 14 July 1988 between Chengdu and Wanzhou. The airline was later restructured as Sichuan Airlines Co., Ltd. on 29 August 2002, in which the Sichuan Airlines Co., Ltd. Group became the major shareholder (40%). The other shareholders are China Southern Airlines (39%), China Eastern Airlines (10%), Air China Group (10%) and Chengdu Gingko Restaurant Co. (1% ...
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DCY China Southern
DCY or DC-Y may refer to: * Daocheng Yading Airport Daocheng Yading Airport is an airport serving Daocheng County in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province, China. It is located in Sangdui Township, north of the county seat and from the Yading Nature Reserve. At abov ... (IATA code), Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province, China * Daviess County Airport (FAA LID code), Indiana, US * McDonnell Douglas DC-Y, a planned follow on to the DC-X carrier rocket {{disambiguation ...
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Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Chengdu, and its population stands at 83 million. Sichuan neighbors Qinghai and Gansu to the north, Shaanxi and Chongqing to the east, Guizhou and Yunnan to the south, and Tibet to the west. During antiquity, Sichuan was home to the kingdoms of Ba and Shu until their incorporation by the Qin. During the Three Kingdoms era (220–280), Liu Bei's state of Shu was based in Sichuan. The area was devastated in the 17th century by Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion and the area's subsequent Manchu conquest, but recovered to become one of China's most productive areas by the 19th century. During World War II, Chongqing served as the temporary capital of the Republic of China, and was heavily bombed. It was one of the last mainland areas captured ...
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