Korla Licheng Airport

ICAO ZWKL41.6150°N 86.1408°E927 m / 3,041 ftMedium airport

Korla Licheng Airport (IATA: KRL, ICAO: ZWKL) is a medium airport in Korla, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. It opened in 2007. It has one runway, 2,780 m (9,121 ft) long. In 2022 it handled 1.0 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 2007–2007

2007

OpenedKorla Licheng Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

04/22 · LIT

LENGTH2,780 m9,121 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACE—

Passengers per year

2011–2022

415K

595K

732K

1.0M

1.2M

1.1M

1.3M

1.7M

2.2M

1.4M

1.8M

1.0M

111213141516171819202122

Routes

31 destinations · 1 country

Year-round31

Seasonal1

HGHHangzhou Xiaoshan International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines3,309 km2,056 mi

Most destinationsChina Express Airlines 16Air China 5Shandong Airlines 4Tianjin Airlines 3Beijing Capital Airlines 3Loong Air 3

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KRL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Korla Licheng Airport” (revision of 14 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers1.0M (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#816of 3,974 · #256 Asia · #75 CN Longest runway2,780 m9,121 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,696of 29,823 · #508 Asia · #132 CN Elevation927 m3,041 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=5,371of 43,341 · #486 Asia · #109 CN AgeOpened 20072026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=12,381of 15,079 · =622 Asia · =124 CN Runways11 · 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