Lhasa Gonggar Airport

Airport in Tibet, China

Lhasa Gonggar Airport 拉萨贡嘎机场 ལྷ་ས་གོང་དཀར་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་།
IATA: LXA ICAO: ZULS
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Lhasa Shannan
Location	Gonggar County, Lhasa, 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 / 29.29778; 90.91194
Maps
CAAC airport chart
LXA/ZULS Location in Tibet Show map of Tibet LXA/ZULS Location in China Show map of China
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 09L/27R 4,000 13,123 Asphalt 09R/27L 4,000 13,123 Concrete A 4,000 13,123 Concrete
Statistics (2021)
Passengers 4,779,386 Cargo (in tons) 45,105.7 Aircraft movements 44,449
Source: List of the busiest airports in China

Lhasa Gonggar Airport
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	拉萨贡嘎机场
Traditional Chinese	拉薩貢嘎機場
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lāsà Gònggá Jīchǎng Wade–Giles La1-sa4 Kung4-ka2 Chi1-ch'ang3 Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Laai1 saat3 gung3 gaa1 gei1 cheung4
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ལྷ་ས་གོང་དཀར་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་།
Transcriptions Wylie lha sa gong dkar gnam gru thang THL lha sa gong kar nam gru tang Tibetan Pinyin Lhasa Konggar

Lhasa Gonggar Airport (IATA: LXA, ICAO: ZULS) 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,^[1][2] and the third terminal was operational in 2021.^[3]