{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Airport","name":"Diqing Shangri-La Airport","iataCode":"DIG","icaoCode":"ZPDQ","city":"Diqing (Shangri-La)","country":"CN","airportType":"medium_airport","cargoCapable":false,"cargoRank":null,"confidenceLevel":null,"coordinates":{"latitude":27.7936,"longitude":99.6772},"elevationMeters":3280,"runwayLengthMeters":null,"description":"At 3,280 metres above sea level, Diqing Shangri-La Airport (IATA: DIG) ranks among China's highest civil airports — thin air that cuts aircraft payload and rules out serious freight operations. Opened in 1999, the field exists for tourism, flying visitors from Kunming, Chengdu and Chongqing to the Tibetan-influenced highlands of northwest Yunnan. During the matsutake season, the prized mushrooms leave the prefecture as belly cargo toward Kunming and onward to Japan. For everything else, forwarde","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/diqing-shangri-la-airport-dig","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/airports/en/diqing-shangri-la-airport-dig","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Diqing Shangri-La Airport · (IATA: DIG) · Diqing (Shangri-La), CN · 3280 m"}