# Qamdo Bangda Airport (BPX / ZUBD)

**Qamdo Bangda Airport** (IATA: BPX, ICAO: ZUBD) is a medium airport in Bangda, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It opened on 22 Oct 1994. It has one runway, 4,500 m (14,764 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 265 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: BPX / ZUBD
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Bangda, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
- Opened: 22 Oct 1994
- Elevation: 4,334 m / 14,219 ft
- Coordinates: 30.5536, 97.1083
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 4,500 m / 14,764 ft
- Passengers: 265,440 (2022)
- Time zone: UTC+8 · Asia/Shanghai
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qamdo_Bamda_Airport (26 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531800
- Ident: ZUBD

## Timeline

- 22 Oct 1994: Qamdo Bangda Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 14/32 | 4,500 m / 14,764 ft | 45 m / 148 ft | Asphalt |  | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2011 | 85,213 | Wikidata |
| 2012 | 126,771 | Wikidata |
| 2013 | 148,178 | Wikidata |
| 2014 | 201,981 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 220,107 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 225,666 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 231,235 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 325,065 | Wikidata |
| 2019 | 373,319 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 357,475 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 401,265 | Wikidata |
| 2022 | 265,440 | Wikidata |

## Routes

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

### Year-round (2)

- [CTU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zuuu.md) Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport · China · 655 km / 407 mi · Air China
- [CKG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/zuck.md) Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport · China · 922 km / 573 mi · West Air

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (2)

- CA [Air China](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/air-china) · 1
- PN [West Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/west-air) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 265K (2022) | #1,401 of 3,974 | #456 in Asia | #145 in CN |
| Longest runway | 4,500 m / 14,764 ft | =27 of 29,858 | =6 in Asia | =4 in CN |
| Elevation | 4,334 m / 14,219 ft | #6 of 43,403 | #3 in Asia | #2 in CN |
| Age | Opened 1994 | =10,385 of 15,079 | =486 in Asia | =76 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) #2
- [Longest runways](https://dromopedia.com/collections/longest-runways) #31

## 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: “Qamdo Bamda Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qamdo_Bamda_Airport&oldid=1363073405), 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/zubd/data