Qamdo Bamda Airport

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The airport Qamdo Bamda (also Qamdo Bangda Airport or Qamdo Bamda Airport, Chinese:昌都 邦达 机场, IATA Code: BPX; ICAO code: ZUBD ) is a Chinese commercial airport. It is located 66.1 km south of the large village Qamdo in the large village Bangda, in the center of the district of Qamdo in the east of Tibet Autonomous Region. The airport was in the middle of a highland steppe, built the " Bamda Prairie " (邦达 草原). Administratively, it belongs in Qamdo the greater community Bamda (帮 达 镇) of the circle Baxoi ( དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་ 八宿 县). The airport was opened on 22 October 1994. Since then, 2,020 flights were held with 170,000 passengers. The only circulating airline is Air China. The company offers national from there to and from Chengdu ( Sichuan Province ) and Lhasa, capital of Tibet. It operate weekly eleven machines.

Airport operator is the CAAC (Chinese General Administration of Civil Aviation ). There is a terminal and a guest house. The airport area is isolated in a high valley of the Tanyaintaweng Shan (他 念 他 翁 山), a part of the mountain system of the Hengduan Shan. The nearest major town is the village Bamda, the seat of the municipal administration of the greater community Bamda. 400 meters southeast of the airport building is the Bangda Airport monument to honor the builders of the airport.

With a height of 4,334 meters ( 14,219 ft) above sea level he was up to the opening of 77 meters higher airport Dabba - Yardêng on 16 September 2013, the highest airport in the world. The only take-off and landing runway has a length of 5,500 meters ( 18,045 ft) and the world record holder in terms of civil airports. The enormous length is necessary because high speed is necessary because of the altitude-related low air density through the air to avoid a stall. The therefore significantly higher landing speed ensures longer braking distances on landing. At the start comes as a further aggravating factor in addition to the higher speed required to lift the also decreased due to the thin air engine power returns, so that a very long acceleration is needed.

The airport has an instrument landing system (ILS ).

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