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New Airport Opened at Lugu Lake

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Aaron Mao
posted on Tuesday, November 3rd 2015 at 20:14
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( Lugu Lake, Airport, Infrastructure )

Construction of Ninglang Lugu Lake Airport (宁蒗泸沽湖机场) has finished, and the airport was put into operation in October 2015. It is now serving Ninglang Yi Autonomous County and Lugu Lake (泸沽湖). Before, the area was only reachable by road from Lijiang, taking up to 8 hours.

Lugu Lake Airport is defined as a small airport of domestic tourist branch lines. Some facts to the new airport:

  • It is situated at Shifo Mountain, Hongqiao township, Ninglang County, about 200km to the northeast of Lijiang Old Town.
  • The site has an elevation of 3265 meters and is located about 25km from Lugu Lake.
  • Up to now, Kunming is the airport’s only flight destination.
  • The annual passenger throughput in the recent future (by 2020) will be approximately 485,000 persons (preliminary forecast of the air traffic).
  • The airport's 3 letter code is NLH.

 

Airline Schedule NLH / KMG

Airline

Flight Number

Flight schedule

Departure Time

Arrival Time

Airplane Model

Kunming – Lugu Lake

MU5937

Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun

08:30h

09:40h

B737

Lugu Lake - Kunming

MU5938

Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun

10:35h

11:45h

B737