The second-largest airport terminal in Tibet started operating on Monday.
The China Daily reports that the new terminal – the sixth to open in Tibet – is located at Nyingchi Mainling Airport in the southeast of the region.
It covers an area of 10,300m² and will be able to handle 750,000 passengers per year by 2020. The airport handled 390,000 passengers in 2016, but traffic is rising sharply year-on-year.
Only four airlines currently operate scheduled flights to Nyingchi Mainling Airport – Air China, China Southern Airlines, Sichuan Airlines and Tibet Airlines – with services connecting to Lhasa and a handful of cities in mainland China.
