Nagqu Dagring Airport

Nagqu Dagring Airport (那曲达仁机场) is an airport scheduled for construction near Nagqu in the Nagqu Prefecture of Tibet.[1] When completed in 2014 it will be the highest airport in the world at 4,436 m (14,554 ft), replacing Qamdo Bangda Airport (also in Tibet) as the highest.[2] Construction will begin in 2011 and is scheduled to take three years. The airport is part of a Chinese government development scheme to build 97 airports across China by 2020. By then, the authorities hope that four-fifths of China's population will be within a 90-minute drive of an airport.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "World's Highest Airport". Airports of the World (28): p. 15. March/April 2010. ISSN 1747-4396. 
  2. ^ Branigan, Tania (January 12, 2010). "Tibet to be location of highest airport in the world". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/tibet-world-highest-airport?CMP=AFCYAH. Retrieved May 19, 2010.