Shigatse Peace Airport

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The Peace Airport Shigatse (Chinese日喀则 和平 机场, Pinyin Rìkāzé Heping Jīchǎng; IATA: RKZ, ICAO: Zurk ) is a military and of civilian airfield in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It was opened in October 2010, is the fifth for civilian transport airport opened on the Tibetan plateau is 43 km east of Shigatse at the upper reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River. With a field elevation of 3782 m above sea level. M. He is one of the highest elevation airports in the world, but lies deeper than the other Tibetan airfields in Bamda, Kangding and Ngari Günsa but higher than the airport in Lhasa. The length of the take-off and landing runway is 5000 meters.

History

The airfield in Shigatse was built as a military airfield of the People's Liberation Army from the late 1960s, and completed around 1970 or 1972. In April 2009 the company began to expand the airport for civilian use and for it to invest 480 million yuan. The terminal newly created parking positions for three aircraft the size of Airbus A319 or Boeing 737 has a capacity of up to 230,000 passengers. The expansion projects were completed in October 2010 with the landing of an Airbus A319 of Air China at the opening.

Airlines and connections

Air China will fly to the aerodrome from 8 July 2011 at the regular service from Chengdu and to use the GPS-based RNP procedures for navigation in the approach. The required certification flights was carried out until June 2011. In addition, Tibet Airlines plans to fly to Shigatse from summer 2011.