Lhasa Gonggar International Airport
Lhasa Gonggar International Airport 拉萨贡嘎国际机场 ལྷ་ས་གོང་དཀར་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་ | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Gonggar County, Shannan, Tibet, China | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hub for | Tibet Airlines | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,570 m / 11,713 ft | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°17′52″N 090°54′43″E / 29.29778°N 90.91194°E | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 拉萨贡嘎国际机场 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 拉薩貢嘎國際機場 | ||||||||
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| Tibetan | ལྷ་ས་གོང་དཀར་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་ | ||||||||
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Lhasa Gonggar International Airport (IATA: LXA, ICAO: ZULS) also known as Lhasa Konggar International Airport is the airport serving Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. It is about 97 kilometres (60 mi) to Lhasa and about 62 kilometres (39 mi) southwest of the city in Gyazhugling, Gonggar County of Shannan.
Situated at an elevation of 3,600 metres (11,800 ft), Lhasa Airport is one of the highest in the world. The airport was first built in 1965, a second runway was built in 1994, the second terminal was built in 2004, and the third terminal was operational in 2021. The airport handled more than 6 million passengers in 2024.