What does LZY mean?

Linzhi Milin Airport in Tibet, referred to as LZY and zunz for short, started construction in June 2003 and was officially opened to traffic in September 2006, with a total investment of 780 million yuan. It is one of the key projects in Xizang Autonomous Region, with a designed annual passenger volume of 6,543,800+200,000 passengers.

Linzhi Airport is located in the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin in Milin County, Linzhi City, 50 kilometers away from Bayi Town, Bayi District, Linzhi City, with an altitude of 2,949 meters, less than 4,334 meters away from Qamdo Bangda Airport and less than 3,570 meters away from Lhasa Gongga International Airport. Its altitude ranks 12 among domestic civil airports.

Extended data:

In order to ensure the flight safety of Linzhi Airport, a unique plateau airport, the navigation equipment installed in the airport includes two sets of instrument navigation systems, one set of instrument landing system, one set of VHF omnidirectional beacon and two sets of precision approach channel indicators.

In order to ensure the safe flight of aircraft in the river valley, the airport has established navigation stations at every turn of the route; At the same time, the airport also installed a wind profile radar to monitor the wind speed and direction in the surrounding areas. Only Linzhi Airport and Jiuzhaigou Airport use this equipment in China.

Linzhi City is the only pass of the famous hump route during World War II. Due to the complicated weather and harsh geographical environment, dozens of allied transport planes crashed in these mountainous areas at that time, and Linzhi Milin Airport became one of the most difficult airports to fly in the world.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Linzhi Milin Airport