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World’s highest altitude airport opens next week
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Daocheng Yading Airport in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the world’s highest-altitude civilian airport, is expected to start operations from next Monday, tourism authorities said yesterday.
The airport, in Daocheng County, Garzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, will link the county to the provincial capital of Chengdu in 65 minutes.
Previously, it took two days by road, officials from the local prefecture tourism bureau said.
The airport is located 4,411 meters above sea level. Initially, it will only serve the Chengdu-Daocheng route everyday.
The cost of a one-way ticket is 1,600 yuan (US$259.7), according to the bureau.
More routes connecting Daocheng with Chongqing, a southwest Chinese business hub and Maerkang County, capital of Sichuan’s Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, are expected to start before October 1.
Routes connecting the county to the megacities like Guangzhou, Shanghai and Xi’an are expected to start next year.
The airport is 159 kilometer from Yading Nature Reserve in the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
For its scenery, Yading is known as “the last Shangri-La” and “the last pure land on the blue planet.”
Bangda Airport of Qamdo in Tibet, which is 4,334 meters above sea level, previously held the record as the world’s highest-altitude airport.
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