Yushu Batang Airport
Yushu Batang Airport 玉树巴塘机场 | |||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 32°50′21″N 97°02′20″E / 32.83917°N 97.03889°E | ||||||||||
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  YUS Location of airport in Qinghai | |||||||||||
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Yushu Batang Airport (
The construction of the airport started in 2007.[2] The first aircraft landed at the new airport on May 29, 2009, and the airport was officially opened on August 1, 2009.[1]
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.[1] According to the CAAC statistics, the airport served 7,484 passengers during 2009, the first (incomplete) year of its operation.[3]
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.[4]
Airlines and destinations
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| Xining
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See also
References
- ^ a b c d 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