Is there an airport in Linzhi?

Yes Linzhi Milin Airport is a civil aviation airport with the lowest altitude in Tibet, the first flight difficulty in China and the third flight difficulty in Tibet. The airport is 2949 meters above sea level and belongs to plateau airport.

Linzhi Airport is located in Yarlung Zangbo River Valley, Milin County, Linzhi District, 50 kilometers away from Bayi Town, the capital of Linzhi, with an altitude of 2,949 meters, which is lower than Qamdo Bangda Airport of 4,334 meters and Lhasa Gongga Airport of 3,570 meters. Its altitude ranks 12 among domestic civil airports.

Linzhi Milin Airport (IATA code: LZY, ICAO code: ZUNZ) started construction in 2003 10, and was officially opened to traffic at the end of September 2006 1, with an investment of 780 million yuan. It is one of the key projects in Xizang Autonomous Region, with the designed annual passenger capacity of120,000.

Linzhi airport is located in a ravine, surrounded by mountains with an altitude of more than 4000 meters, which are shrouded in fog all year round. Aircraft can only take off and land in narrow and curved valleys, and the narrowest flight path is less than 4 kilometers from the ridges on both sides of the canyon. In addition, the airport has low cloud weather, changeable wind direction, wind shear and other turbulent airflow, so the aircraft can only take off and land in the morning, and the airworthiness time for the whole year is only 100 days. In 2008, Linzhi Airport opened a flight to Chengdu, which was operated by Air China B757.

Because the route through the canyon is narrow and tortuous, which exceeds the normal flight standard, the aircraft's near-ground automatic alarm device may be triggered at any time during the descent approach. At the same time, due to the complex terrain, the signals sent by navigation equipment will be severely shielded and interfered, and the flight airspace range is very limited. Moreover, the Mirin navigation station on the west side of the airport is only 1 1.2 kilometers away from the actual control line between China and India, which makes the crew's technical level and psychological quality face a severe test, requiring them to make every turn in the air and every flight. Linzhi Airport is the airport with the most complicated clearance environment, meteorological conditions, navigation station layout and flight procedures in China, and it is the most difficult to ensure the take-off and landing of aircraft and the punctuality of flights. It is also one of the most difficult airports in the world.