Diqing Shangri-La Airport
Diqing Shangri-La Airport
Diqing Shangri-La Airport (IATA: DIG, ICAO: ZPDQ) is an airport serving Shangri-La City, Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. The airport does not have any taxiways (other than the one leading to the terminal building), requiring planes landing there to backtaxi to the terminal building.
Location
27.794°N, 99.677°E · 3.280 m s. n. m. (10.761 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
History
Diqing Shangri-La Airport was formerly known as Diqing Zhongdian Airport. The airport is located in Lazanba, 5.4 km southwest of Shangri-La County, at an altitude of 3287.8 meters. It is a high-altitude branch airport in Yunnan.
Construction of the airport began on January 4, 1998. On April 30, 1999, a Yunnan Airlines Boeing 737-700 passenger plane landed at Diqing Zhongdian Airport, marking the airport's official operation.
On August 26, 2002, Diqing Zhongdian Airport was renamed Diqing Shangri-La Airport.
In June 2007, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the 350 million yuan expansion project of Diqing Shangri-La Airport. On September 18, 2007, the airport expansion and renovation project officially commenced.
The main structure was completed on April 24, 2009, and passed civil aviation industry acceptance, with the project quality assessed as qualified. The newly built terminal building at Diqing Shangri-La Airport officially opened on June 16, 2009.
In 2017, the implementation plan for declaring and constructing the aviation port at Diqing Shangri‑La Airport received official approval.
On March 15, 2019, the Yunnan Provincial Development and Reform Commission approved the fourth phase of the expansion and renovation project of Diqing Shangri-La Airport. Construction began in June 2020, with a total investment of approximately 140 million yuan, including the asphalt concrete overlay of the runway and the upgrading of navigation lights, etc. On March 23, 2021, the project passed the group company's completion acceptance. On May 13, the project passed the industry acceptance.
Airlines operating here · 5
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Diqing Shangri-La Airport (DIG). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/DIG
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BibTeX
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