LUA

Tenzing-Hillary Airport

ICAO VNLK27.6868°N 86.7295°E2,859 m / 9,380 ftMedium airport
On the map
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Tenzing-Hillary Airport (IATA: LUA, ICAO: VNLK) is a medium airport in Lukla, Koshi Province, Nepal. It opened in 1964. It has one runway, 527 m (1,729 ft) long, asphalt. In 2019 it handled 130 thousand passengers.

Timeline

3 events · 1964–2017
1964
OpenedTenzing-Hillary Airport opens.
08 OCT 2008
DisasterYeti Airlines Flight 101.18 killed
27 MAY 2017
DisasterSummit Air Flight 409.2 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Tenzing-Hillary Airport LUA
06/24060° / 240° · SLOPE 11.6%
LENGTH527 m1,729 ftWIDTH20 m66 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2006–2019
62K
81K
92K
89K
92K
93K
87K
81K
120K
147K
125K
130K
060708091011141516171819

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsTara Air 3Sita Air 2Summit Air 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LUA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Tenzing-Hillary Airport” (revision of 20 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers130K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,724of 3,974 · #564 Asia · #12 NPLongest runway527 m1,729 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=26,723of 29,823 · #1,959 Asia · #23 NPElevation2,859 m9,380 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#116of 43,341 · #37 Asia · #4 NPAgeOpened 19642026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,263of 15,079 · =301 Asia · #6 NPRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =1 NP
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels
TWR122.500
APP122.300