Yushu Batang Airport
The construction of the airport started in 2007. The first aircraft landed at the new airport on May 29, 2009, and the airport was officially opened on August 1, 2009.
Yushu Batang Airport has a 3,800 meter-long runway, and can receive A319 aircraft. The passenger terminal is designed to serve up to 80,000 passengers per year. According to the CAAC statistics, the airport served 7,484 passengers during 2009, the first (incomplete) year of its operation.
The airport played an important role in the delivery of rescue personnel and relief supplies to the area affected by the 2010 Yushu earthquake. The facility was re-opened at noon on the day of the earthquake (Wednesday, April 14), and the first flight with personnel and supplies of the China International Earthquake Rescue Team landed there at 8 pm the same day.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Beijing Capital Airlines | Beijing–Daxing, Xining |
| China Eastern Airlines | Chengdu–Tianfu, Xi'an, Xining |
| Tibet Airlines | Chengdu–Shuangliu, Lhasa, Xining |
See also
References
- ^ Yushu Batang Airport officially opened on August 1st, 2009
- ^ First civil aviation airplane successfully landed in Yushu Airport in Qinghai
- ^ 民航机场业务量 Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (Civil Airports Operations Volume), at the CAAC site [This is apparently an HTML file, not an Excel file, despite its extension].
- ^ Airport vital lifeline to relief effort. By Xin Dingding (China Daily), 2010-04-15
- ^ "最全冬航季航班时刻表→". Retrieved 25 December 2024.