Shache Yarkant Airport Explained

Shache Yarkant Airport
Iata:QSZ
Icao:ZWSC
Type:Public
City-Served:Yarkant (Shache), Xinjiang, China
Location:Zirefuxiati
Opened:1 August 2017
Coordinates:38.245°N 77.06°W
Pushpin Map:China Xinjiang
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Xinjiang
Pushpin Label:QSZ
Elevation-M:1290
Metric-Elev:y
Metric-Rwy:y
R1-Number:15/33
R1-Length-M:3000
Stat-Year:2021
Stat1-Header:Passengers
Stat1-Data:277,259
Stat2-Header:Aircraft movements
Stat2-Data:4,420
Stat3-Header:Cargo (metric tons)
Stat3-Data:1,378.7
Footnotes:Source:
Order:st
S:莎车叶尔羌机场
T:莎車葉爾羌機場
P:Shāchē Yè'ěrqiāng Jīchǎng
Uig:يەكەن ئايرودرومى

Shache Ye'erqiang Airport is an airport that serves Yarkant County (Shache) in Kashgar Prefecture of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. It is located near Zerepshat/Zirefuxiati Village (Uighur; Uyghur: زەرەپشات تاجىك يېزىسى, Chinese: 孜热甫夏提). The airport received approval from the State Council of China and the Central Military Commission in January 2014. The estimated cost of construction was 541 million yuan.[1] Shache Airport opened on 1 August 2017 as the 19th airport in Xinjiang.[2]

Facilities

Carnoc reported in 2014 that the airport would have a 3,000-meter runway (class 4C), a 3,000 square-meter terminal building, and four aircraft parking places. It is projected to handle 200,000 passengers and 830 tons of cargo annually by 2020.

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: http://news.carnoc.com/list/271/271752.html . zh:新疆莎车民用机场项目获国务院中央军委批复 . Carnoc . zh . 2014-01-23 . 2014-01-24.
  2. News: Shache, China opens to commercial traffic. ch-aviation. 2017-08-03. 2017-08-07. subscription.