Tibet the higher the world second airport opened to the traffic in the province
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October 28th, 2008
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The airport of Kangding, the higher the world second airport, is himself open to the traffic Wednesday in a Tibetan region of the province of the Sichuan in the southwest of China.
The airport, that culminates to 4 280 m of altitude, be classified to the second rank right behind the airport of Qamdo of the Autonomous Region of Tibet, located as that is for him to 4 334 m of altitude.
The Kangding airport of permits to surrender since Kangding county seat of the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, in Chengdu, the county seat of the province of Sichuan, in only 35 minutes, either a lot less time that the present six hours of road, indicated the general manager of Kangding Airport Co., Ltd, Fan Yongzheng.
A Boeing 737-700 of Dyed Eastern Airlines about to leave of Kunming, the county seat of the province of Yunnan (southwest), did the first flight to the airport of Kangding Wednesday morning, while passing by Chengdu.
The calendar of the other programmed flights has not yet been fixed, said Fan.
Situated between the Dadu and Yalong rivers, two tributaries of the Yangtze stream, the city of Kangding is a popular tourist destination.
"We are constructing the freeways joining the airport to the main tourist sites of Garze," confirmed the chief attaches the prefecture of Garze, Hu Bin.
"Once the accomplished works, the tourists will be able to go to the picturesque sites in less than two hours", he has added.
The construction of the airport, situated to 40 km in the city of Kangding, began in September 2006. He should welcome 330 000 passengers and 1 980 tons of goods and mail every year. A track of 4 000 m has been conceived for the A319 and the Boeing 737-300.
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