Which airport is located in the highest spot in the world?

Question

Which airport is located in the highest spot in the world?

Answer 1

Telluride Regional Airport in Colorado is the highest commercial airport in the North America at 9078 feet.  Pilots must contend with high terrain exceeding 14,000 feet in all quadrants which makes it quite a challenge to land and takeoff there.

Berthoud Pass Airport in Empire, CO at 12,442 feet is the highest non-commercial airport in the U.S.

Answer 2

Lukla Airport (IATA: LUA, ICAO: VNLK) is a small airport in the Town of Lukla in Khumbu, eastern Nepal. In January 2008, the government of Nepal announced that the airport would be renamed in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary[1]and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary passed away on January 11, 2008. Tenzing Norgay died in 1986. The airport is now officially named Tenzing-Hillary Airport (LUA|VNLK)[2]

Runway characteristics include 527m of bitumen runway. The width is 20m and the runway incline is a staggering 11,75°, equivalent of almost 20%. The apron has 4 stands and there is one heli-pad located 150m below the TWR (air traffic control tower). No landing aids are available and Air Traffic Service is limited to AFIS (Aerodrome Flight Information Service) only.

The airport is quite popular as Lukla is the place where most people start their trek to climb Mount Everest.

There are frequent daily flights (i.e. no night service) between Lukla and Kathmandu, weather permitting. Although the flying distance is short, it can easily be raining in Lukla while the sun is shining brightly in Kathmandu, or vice versa. The airport's siren blasts the mountain air to inform personnel of incoming aircraft. The paved tarmac is only accessible to helicopters and small fixed wing short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft such as Twin Otters or Dornier Do 228. There is about a 700-metre (2,000 ft) angled drop at the end of the runway to the valley far below. The airport is contained within a chain link fence and patrolled by the Nepal armed police or civil police around the clock.

Answer 3

This is the highest airport in the world.  The highest spot is on top of Mount Everest.

"Tucked within the Himalayas, Tibet in the Republic of China has the two highest airfields in the world. Bangda airport in eastern Tibet, which lies 15,548 feet above sea level, was opened on Oct. 22, 1994. It relegated Lhasa airport (14,315 feet) in Tibet's capital to second place among the world's highest airports."

http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/highest...

Answer 4

Um, have you tried: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hig...

Highest Elevation airport: San Rafael in Peru at 14422 ft elevation

By contrast, I.Bar-Yehuda at the bottom of the Dead Sea in Israel is the lowest, at an elevation of 1266 below sea level.

Well I was wrong. As previous poster said: Bangda is the highest.

Answer 5

lima international airport...