NEW TERMINAL OPENS AT TIBET’S SECOND LARGEST AIRPORT
March 1st, 2017 OPERATIONS have begun at the second-largest airport terminal in Tibet, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has announced. Located at Nyingchi Mainling Airport, in south-western Tibet, the new terminal is 10,300 square metres in size and is designed to handle 750,000 passengers and 3,000 tonnes of cargo annually. The CAAC plans to develop traffic to these levels by 2020. The terminal should service flights to Beijing, Xi'an, the Tibetan capital Lhasa, Guangzhou; Kunming, Chongqing and Shenzhen. Since the airport opened in 2006, annual passenger ...
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