BPL

Bole Alashankou Airport

ICAO ZWBL44.8955°N 82.3001°E382 m / 1,253 ftMedium airport
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Bole Alashankou Airport (IATA: BPL, ICAO: ZWBL) is a medium airport in Bole, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. It opened in 2010. It has one runway, 2,600 m (8,530 ft) long. In 2022 it handled 161 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 2010–2010
2010
OpenedBole Alashankou Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
10/28 · LIT
LENGTH2,600 m8,530 ftWIDTH—SURFACE—

Passengers per year

2011–2022
18K
28K
49K
77K
125K
129K
134K
169K
304K
161K
252K
161K
111213141516171819202122

Routes

13 destinations · 1 country
Year-round13
YINIli Yining International AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines130 km81 miTCGTacheng Qianquan AirportChina · China Express Airlines213 km132 miURCÜrümqi Tianshan International AirportChina · Tianjin Airlines426 km265 miAKUAksu Hongqipo AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines436 km271 miKRLKorla Licheng AirportChina · China Express Airlines479 km298 miACFAral Tarim AirportChina · China Express Airlines503 km313 miAATAltay Xuedu AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines546 km339 miTLQTurpan Jiaohe AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines582 km362 miKHGKashgar Laining International AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines788 km490 miQSZShache AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines858 km533 miLHWLanzhou Zhongchuan International AirportChina · Urumqi Air2,016 km1,253 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines2,522 km1,567 miCGOZhengzhou Xinzheng International AirportChina · Urumqi Air2,911 km1,809 mi
Most destinationsChengdu Airlines 6China Express Airlines 5Urumqi Air 2Tianjin Airlines 1Sichuan Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BPL. From the Wikipedia article “Bole Alashankou Airport” (revision of 8 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers161K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,634of 3,974 · #534 Asia · #173 CNLongest runway2,600 m8,530 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,041of 29,823 · =629 Asia · =138 CNElevation382 m1,253 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=14,350of 43,341 · #974 Asia · #179 CNAgeOpened 20102026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=12,749of 15,079 · =655 Asia · =140 CNRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =31 CN
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