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Ninglang Luguhu Airport
Ninglang Luguhu Airport
Simplified Chinese	宁蒗泸沽湖机场
Traditional Chinese	寧蒗瀘沽湖機場
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Nínglàng Lúgūhú Jīchǎng

Ninglang Luguhu Airport

宁蒗泸沽湖机场
Ninglang Luguhu Airport; 宁蒗泸沽湖机场
	IATA: NLH; ICAO: ZPNL;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Ninglang County, Yunnan
Location	Shifoshan, Hongqiao, Ninglang County
Opened	12 October 2015
Elevation AMSL	3,293 m / 10,804 ft
Coordinates	27°32′37.7″N 100°45′26.6″E / 27.543806°N 100.757389°E
Map
	NLH Location of airport in Yunnan
Runways
Statistics (2021)
Passengers
Passengers	74,373
Aircraft movements	1,380
Cargo (metric tons)	106.6

Ninglang Luguhu Airport (IATA: NLH, ICAO: ZPNL) is an airport serving Ninglang Yi Autonomous County and Lugu Lake (Luguhu), in northwestern Yunnan province, China. It is located in the village of Shifoshan (石佛山村), Hongqiao Town, 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Lugu Lake and 50 kilometres (31 mi) from the Ninglang county seat, at an elevation of 3,293 metres (10,804 ft). Construction began in April 2013, and the airport, the 13th in Yunnan, was opened on 12 October 2015. The airports cost 1.298 billion yuan to build.^[1]

In 2019, the airport handled 2,168 flights and 200,000 passengers.^[2]

The airport facilities include an oxygen bar for passengers struggling with the high altitude.^[2] The airport is also notorious for commonly having challenging weather conditions for flight.^[3]