# Yushu Batang Airport (YUS / ZLYS)

**Yushu Batang Airport** (IATA: YUS, ICAO: ZLYS) is a medium airport in Yushu (Batang), Qinghai Province, China. It opened on 1 Aug 2009. It has one runway, 3,800 m (12,467 ft) long, concrete. In 2022 it handled 156 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/zlys

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: YUS / ZLYS
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Yushu (Batang), Qinghai Province, China
- Opened: 1 Aug 2009
- Elevation: 3,906 m / 12,816 ft
- Coordinates: 32.8364, 97.0364
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 3,800 m / 12,467 ft
- Passengers: 155,848 (2022)
- Time zone: UTC+8 · Asia/Shanghai
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushu_Batang_Airport (12 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1055073
- Ident: ZLYS

## Timeline

- 1 Aug 2009: Yushu Batang Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10/28 | 3,800 m / 12,467 ft |  | Concrete |  |  |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2011 | 75,838 | Wikidata |
| 2012 | 98,481 | Wikidata |
| 2013 | 112,998 | Wikidata |
| 2014 | 118,205 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 192,941 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 181,215 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 263,706 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 302,796 | Wikidata |
| 2019 | 318,714 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 355,995 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 374,561 | Wikidata |
| 2022 | 155,848 | Wikidata |

## Routes

5 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (5)

- [XNN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zlxn.md) Xining Caojiabao International Airport · China · 614 km / 382 mi · Tibet Airlines, China Eastern Airlines
- [CTU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zuuu.md) Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport · China · 701 km / 436 mi · Tibet Airlines
- [LXA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zuls.md) Lhasa Gonggar International Airport · China · 703 km / 437 mi · Tibet Airlines
- [TFU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zutf.md) Chengdu Tianfu International Airport · China · 755 km / 469 mi · China Eastern Airlines
- [XIY](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zlxy.md) Xi'an Xianyang International Airport · China · 1,099 km / 683 mi · Tibet Airlines

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from YUS, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (2)

- TV [Tibet Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/tibet-airlines) · 4
- MU [China Eastern Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/china-eastern-airlines) · 2

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 156K (2022) | #1,644 of 3,974 | #536 in Asia | #175 in CN |
| Longest runway | 3,800 m / 12,467 ft | =204 of 29,858 | =50 in Asia | =17 in CN |
| Elevation | 3,906 m / 12,816 ft | #32 of 43,403 | #15 in Asia | #10 in CN |
| Age | Opened 2009 | =12,628 of 15,079 | =646 in Asia | =135 in CN |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =31 in CN |

## Nearby airports

No open airport within 150 km / 93 mi.

## In collections

- [Highest airports](https://dromopedia.com/collections/highest) #9

## Sources

- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Yushu Batang Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yushu_Batang_Airport&oldid=1363088790), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/zlys/data