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Photo: A319 lands on 4411 metre high Chinese airport...

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/ ... AG20130916
China opened the world's highest civilian airport on Monday, in a restive and remote Tibetan region of southwestern Sichuan province,
which will cut journey times from the provincial capital from two days to a little more than one hour.

Daocheng airport in Garzi, a heavily ethnic Tibetan part of Sichuan, is 4,411 meters (14,472 feet) above sea level,
and overtakes Qamdo airport in Tibet, which sits at 4,334 meters above sea level, for the title of world's highest.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daocheng_Yading_Airport the runway is 4,200 metres/ 13,780 feet in length.
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