Shigatse Peace Airport

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Rikaze Peace Airport 日喀则和平机场 གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་ཞི་བདེ་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང།
Terminal building
IATA: RKZ ICAO: ZURK
Summary
Airport type	Military/public
Serves	Shigatse, Tibet A.R.
Location	Jangdam, Samzhubzê District, Shigatse
Opened	1973 (military) 30 October 2010 (public)
Elevation AMSL	3,782 m / 12,408 ft
Coordinates	29°21′06″N 89°18′25″E
Map
RKZ Location of airport in Tibet
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 09/27 5,000 16,404 Concrete 07/25 3,000 9,843 Concrete
Statistics (2021)
Passengers 144,870 Aircraft movements 1,804 Cargo (metric tons) 528.9
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Shigatse Peace Airport
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	日喀则和平机场
Traditional Chinese	日喀則和平機場
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Rìkāzé Hépíng Jīchǎng
Tibetan name
Tibetan	གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་ཞི་བདེ་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང།
Transcriptions Wylie gzhis ka rtse zhi bde gnam gru thang

Rikaze (Shigatse) Peace Airport (IATA: RKZ, ICAO: ZURK), Shigatse Heping Airport, or Shigatse Air Base, is a dual-use military and civilian airport serving Shigatse, the second largest city in Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is located in Jangdam Township, 43 kilometres (27 mi) from Shigatse. Situated at an elevation of 3,782 metres (12,408 ft), it is one of the highest airports in the world.

Construction of Shigatse Airport started in 1968 and was completed in 1973. It was solely for military use until 2010, when a 532 million yuan expansion was completed. On 30 October 2010, the airport was opened as the fifth civilian airport in Tibet.

Facilities

The airport has a 5,000-metre (16,000 ft) runway with a 60-metre (200 ft) asphalt overrun at each end. It is the longest public runway in the world (tied with Ulyanovsk Vostochny Airport). It also features a 4,500-square-metre (48,000 sq ft) terminal building. It is projected to handle 230,000 passengers and 1,150 tonnes (1,130 long tons; 1,270 short tons) of cargo annually by 2020.

Around 2017, a new runway of approximately 3,000 metres (9,840 ft) was constructed. Guizhou WZ-7 Soaring Dragon UAVs were seen hosted by this runway. The runway is located at the west end of its primary runway.

Gallery

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  Inside the terminal
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  Airport taxiways
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  Airport taxiways
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  Airport terminal (a view from tarmac)
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  Satellite view of the airport (2017)

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
China Eastern Airlines	Xi'an
Tibet Airlines	Chengdu–Shuangliu
West Air	Chongqing

Map and location markers

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Runway 1 (16,404ft)

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Runway 2 (9,843ft)

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Main terminal

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Air traffic control tower

See also

• List of airports in China
• List of the busiest airports in China
• List of People's Liberation Army Air Force airbases