The Bangda Airport, the world's highest-altitude civilian airport currently in use, is expected to resume operations on Monday after months of repairs, local aviation authorities said. The airfield, located in Qamdo Prefecture in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, closed on June 22 so that its 19-year-old runway could be repaired, the Tibet branch of the Civil Aviation Administration said.

The airport has two routes in service, one linking Qamdo and Lhasa, capital of Tibet, and another linking Qamdo and Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province.

With an elevation of 4,334 meters above sea level, the airport's record altitude will eventually be topped by the 4,411-meter-high Daocheng Yading Airport, which is under construction in Garzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan.

Source: Xinhua