Editing Lhasa (section)

===Air===
[[File:Lhasa airport.jpg|thumb|right|[[Lhasa Gonggar Airport]]]]
[[Lhasa Gonggar International Airport]] (IATA: '''LXA'''), built in 1965, is the aviation hub of Tibet.<ref name="Li 2017 p. 186">{{cite book | last=Li | first=Q. | title=The Evolution and Preservation of the Old City of Lhasa | publisher=Springer Nature Singapore | year=2017 | isbn=978-981-10-6735-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zZA-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA186 | access-date=2024-03-13 | page=186}}</ref> It is located south of the city proper. It takes around half an hour to get there by car via the [[Lhasa Airport Expressway]]; prior to the completion of the expressway in 2011, the trip to the airport took over an hour. {{As of|2014}}, there are daily flights serving major Chinese cities including Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Shanghai, and there are also occasional scheduled services to [[Kathmandu]] in Nepal. Lhasa Airport is the hub of [[Tibet Airlines]], which offers regional services to other destinations in Tibet such as [[Nyingchi]], [[Ngari Prefecture]], [[Shigatse]], and [[Qamdo]].<ref name="IIRF Strategic Yearbook 2022-23 p. 279">{{cite book | title=IIRF Strategic Yearbook 2022-23 | isbn=979-8-88883-276-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QuG9EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT279 | access-date=2024-03-13 | page=279| publisher=Notion Press }}</ref>