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Qamdo Bangda Airport (Tibetan
Tibetan language

The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan....
: ), located in Bangda, Qamdo
Qamdo Prefecture

Qamdo Prefecture is a subnational entity in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, containing the town of Chamdo. The capital of the prefecture is Qamdo County....
, Tibet
Tibet

Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....
, is the highest airport
Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and Non-rigid airship take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport....
 in the world, with an altitude
Altitude

Altitude has multiple uses depending on the context in which it is used . As a general definition, altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object....
 of . At , runway 14/32 is the longest publicly used runway in the world. The low air density at this altitude makes a higher takeoff and landing true airspeed
True airspeed

True airspeed is the speed of an aircraft relative to the airmass in which it flies, i.e. the magnitude of the wind triangle of the velocity of the aircraft and the velocity of the air....
 necessary, and therefore a longer runway. The airport is 2.5 hours by mountain road from the county seat of Chamdu/Changdu/Qamdo. The long commute is the result of no flat land closer to the city being available to construct an airport.

Visitors are warned before landing to move slowly on leaving the plane and that they may feel light headed or dizzy because of the thin air.








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Qamdo Bangda Airport (Tibetan
Tibetan language

The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan....
: ), located in Bangda, Qamdo
Qamdo Prefecture

Qamdo Prefecture is a subnational entity in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, containing the town of Chamdo. The capital of the prefecture is Qamdo County....
, Tibet
Tibet

Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....
, is the highest airport
Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and Non-rigid airship take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport....
 in the world, with an altitude
Altitude

Altitude has multiple uses depending on the context in which it is used . As a general definition, altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object....
 of . At , runway 14/32 is the longest publicly used runway in the world. The low air density at this altitude makes a higher takeoff and landing true airspeed
True airspeed

True airspeed is the speed of an aircraft relative to the airmass in which it flies, i.e. the magnitude of the wind triangle of the velocity of the aircraft and the velocity of the air....
 necessary, and therefore a longer runway. The airport is 2.5 hours by mountain road from the county seat of Chamdu/Changdu/Qamdo. The long commute is the result of no flat land closer to the city being available to construct an airport.

Visitors are warned before landing to move slowly on leaving the plane and that they may feel light headed or dizzy because of the thin air.

Scheduled services

  • Air China
    Air China

    Air China Ltd is the People's Republic of China's state owned and Largest airlines#Asia commercial airline after China Southern Airlines. It is the flag carrier and the only airline in the world to fly the Flag of the People's Republic of China on its entire fleet....
     (Chengdu, Lhasa)


See also


  • List of airports in the People's Republic of China
    List of airports in the People's Republic of China

    This is a list of airports in the People's Republic of China, grouped by province/region and sorted by location.|- valign=top style="font-weight:bold"...
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    El Alto International Airport

    El Alto International Airport is an international airport located in El Alto, near the city of La Paz, Bolivia; it serves national and international air traffic....
     (AMSL 13,325')
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    Extreme points of the world

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