# Ngari Gunsa Airport (NGQ / ZUAL)

**Ngari Gunsa Airport** (IATA: NGQ, ICAO: ZUAL) is a medium airport in Shiquanhe, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It opened on 1 Jul 2010. It has one runway, 4,500 m (14,764 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 113 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: NGQ / ZUAL
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Shiquanhe, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
- Opened: 1 Jul 2010
- Elevation: 4,274 m / 14,022 ft
- Coordinates: 32.0979, 80.0540
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 4,500 m / 14,764 ft
- Passengers: 112,538 (2022)
- Time zone: UTC+8 · Asia/Shanghai
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngari_Gunsa_Airport (15 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1432172
- Ident: ZUAL

## Timeline

- 1 Jul 2010: Ngari Gunsa Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 15/33 | 4,500 m / 14,764 ft |  | Asphalt |  |  |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2011 | 9,350 | Wikidata |
| 2012 | 18,166 | Wikidata |
| 2013 | 27,852 | Wikidata |
| 2014 | 41,345 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 60,981 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 62,341 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 66,342 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 75,028 | Wikidata |
| 2019 | 90,898 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 96,425 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 190,056 | Wikidata |
| 2022 | 112,538 | Wikidata |

## Routes

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

### Year-round (5)

- [QSZ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zwsc.md) Shache Airport · China · 736 km / 457 mi · Tibet Airlines
- [KHG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zwsh.md) Kashgar Laining International Airport · China · 904 km / 562 mi · Tibet Airlines, Lucky Air
- [LXA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zuls.md) Lhasa Gonggar International Airport · China · 1,083 km / 673 mi · Tibet Airlines
- [URC](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zwww.md) Ürümqi Tianshan International Airport · China · 1,465 km / 910 mi · Lucky Air
- [XNN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zlxn.md) Xining Caojiabao International Airport · China · 2,073 km / 1,288 mi · Tibet Airlines

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (2)

- TV [Tibet Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/tibet-airlines) · 4
- 8L [Lucky Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/lucky-air) · 2

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 113K (2022) | #1,764 of 3,974 | #576 in Asia | #192 in CN |
| Longest runway | 4,500 m / 14,764 ft | =27 of 29,858 | =6 in Asia | =4 in CN |
| Elevation | 4,274 m / 14,022 ft | #11 of 43,403 | #8 in Asia | #6 in CN |
| Age | Opened 2010 | =12,735 of 15,079 | =654 in Asia | =140 in CN |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =31 in CN |

## Nearby airports

- [VI66](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vi66.md) Fukche Advanced Landing Ground · 122 km / 76 mi

## In collections

- [Highest airports](https://dromopedia.com/collections/highest) #5
- [Longest runways](https://dromopedia.com/collections/longest-runways) #32

## 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: “Ngari Gunsa Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ngari_Gunsa_Airport&oldid=1363066350), 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/zual/data