Another high altitude airport coming up in Tibet

The world's highest altitude civilian airport is getting ready in Tibet surpassing the record held by the Bangda Airport, also located in the Himalayan region.
The 4,411-metre-high Daocheng Yading Airport is under construction in Garzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
It will surpass the Bangda Airport which has an elevation of 4,334 metres above sea level.
So far, China has built five airports at Gonggar, Lhasa, Bangda, Xigaze and Ngari in Tibet.
The rapid development of air infrastructure in Tibet coupled with rail and road development raised concerns in India as it provides massive advantage to China to move its troops and equipment overcoming the geographical problems in the remote region of the world.

Following this India too has stepped up its infrastructure development along the Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh regions.

The Bangda Airport, which was closed for repairs, is expected to resume operations tomorrow.
The airfield, located in Qamdo Prefecture in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, closed on June 22 so that its 19-year-old runway could be repaired, the Tibet branch of the Civil Aviation Administration said.
The airport has two routes in service, one linking Qamdo and Lhasa, capital of Tibet, and another linking Qamdo and Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Its record high altitude airport will eventually be topped by the Daocheng Yading Airport, which is under construction, the report said.