{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Airport","name":"Daocheng Yading Airport","iataCode":"DCY","icaoCode":"ZUDC","city":"Garzê (Daocheng)","country":"CN","airportType":"medium_airport","cargoCapable":false,"cargoRank":null,"confidenceLevel":null,"coordinates":{"latitude":29.31632,"longitude":100.060317},"elevationMeters":4411,"runwayLengthMeters":null,"description":"Roughly 63 tonnes of cargo in 2021 is the entire annual freight record of Daocheng Yading (DCY/ZUDC) — a figure that says more about the airport than its more famous one, 4,411 metres above sea level, the highest of any civil airport in the world. Sitting on the Tibetan plateau of Sichuan's Garzê prefecture, it opened in September 2013 with a 4,200-metre runway sized to compensate for thin air, and is served by medium-range types such as the Airbus A319 and Boeing 737. The one-hour flight from C","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/daocheng-yading-airport-dcy","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/airports/en/daocheng-yading-airport-dcy","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Daocheng Yading Airport · (IATA: DCY) · Garzê (Daocheng), CN · 4411 m"}