AviatDataLijiang Sanyi International Airport LJG / ZPLJ
Lijiang, Yunnan · China · Yunnan Airport Group Co., Ltd. (state-owned enterprise, under Yunnan Provincial SASAC)
8.6Mpax · 2025
Limited hoursInternational · customs & immigrationJet A-1
ICAO / IATAZPLJ / LJG
OperatorYunnan Airport Group Co., Ltd. (state-owned enterprise, under Yunnan Provincial SASAC)
Coordinates26.6792°N, 100.2458°E
Elevation7,359 ft · 2,243 m
Time zoneCST (UTC+8, no DST)
Passengers / yr8,631,218 (2025)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
Bonded—
AIP referenceZPLJ — China AIP (CAAC), AD 2.ZPLJ Lijiang Sanyi International, Kunming FIR
Operating hoursApprox. 0430-0130 (+1) local daily; nightly closure roughly 0130-0430 (no scheduled overnight/H24 operations) — consistent with published schedules showing first departures around 0630-0640 and last arrivals around 0130, though no primary AIP hours-of-operation citation could be confirmed. High-altitude field (2,243m/7,359ft ASL, one of China's higher-elevation civil airports) — some wide-body types operate at reduced payload/range.
TerminalsDomestic terminal (33,000 sqm) plus a separate international terminal (5,300 sqm); 24 check-in counters, 8 boarding bridges, and a 76,000 sqm apron with 19 aircraft parking stands; designated a first-class (national) port of entry since November 2011
Runways (1)
- 02/20 · 3,000 m / 9,843 ft · 45 m wide · Asphalt · ILS Category I precision approach lighting system at both runway ends (added in the 2011 runway/terminal expansion), supporting ILS CAT I approaches
Airport contact
Lijiang's principal gateway airport and a key node on Yunnan's northwest tourism circuit (Lijiang Old Town, Shangri-La, Tiger Leaping Gorge), sitting at 2,243m ASL — among China's higher-elevation civil airfields, which constrains payload for some aircraft types. Served by over 20 carriers with frequent domestic service including China Eastern, China Southern, Air China, Shenzhen Airlines and Ruili Airlines; current international routes link LJG to Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi and Ho Chi Minh City via Ruili Airlines, Hanoi via Bamboo Airways, and Hai Phong via Lucky Air. Passenger traffic crossed 8 million for the first time in 2024 (8,092,935) and reached 8,631,218 in 2025. Two corrections from the draft: the contact phone (was +86-888-5173081, an unverified number resembling the airport's published lost-and-found line, cited variously as 0888-5143081 or 0888-5173081 — corrected here to the consistently-cited general inquiry line, 0888-5173088) and the carrier note (dropped the unverified claim that Lucky Air holds an 'operating base' here, since no source substantiates a designated base for any carrier at LJG, and dropped West Air plus a specific Jul-Oct seasonality window for the international routes, neither of which could be confirmed).
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available
Yunnan Airport Group – Lijiang Regional Airport Management Branch (云南机场集团有限责任公司丽江区域机场管理分公司)
Airport operator self-provides ground support ('地面保障业务'), agency ('代理业务') and other services to domestic and foreign carriers, passengers and cargo at LJG per its registered business scope (company registry / Baidu Baike entry, matches SAMR filing). Company was renamed from '...丽江机场' to '...丽江区域机场管理分公司' in Feb 2025, when Yunnan Airport Group merged the Lijiang and Lugu Lake (泸沽湖) airport management teams into one region-wide operation — confirms draft. One caveat found: since Sept 2025 the narrow aircraft-guarding/watch function (飞机监护、飞机守护) has been outsourced for a one-year term to a third-party contractor, Yunnan Weitong Security Service Co. (云南卫通保安服务有限公司); core ground-handling/agency business otherwise remains in-house.
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Aircraft fuel
Available
China National Aviation Fuel (CNAF) – Yunnan Oil Co., Ltd. (中国航油集团云南石油有限公司)
Corrected company name/entity from draft: the mainland operating unit is China National Aviation Fuel (CNAF) Group's wholly-owned Yunnan subsidiary, legal name 中国航油集团云南石油有限公司 (est. 8 Sept 1993, HQ Kunming; formerly 云南民航油料经营开发公司 / 云南陆地石油有限公司) — draft's label 'China Aviation Oil – Yunnan Branch' risks conflation with the separately listed Singapore trading entity 'China Aviation Oil (Singapore)', a different company. Per the subsidiary's own corporate profile it supplies/into-plane fuels 110 domestic and foreign airlines across 15 civil transport airports and 3 forest-patrol general-aviation airfields in Yunnan (corrected from draft's unsourced '120+ carriers / 5 GA fields'); Lijiang is one of the 15 civil airports. A dedicated 'Lijiang Airport fuelling project' (丽江机场供油工程/机场油库工程) was separately tendered and built as supporting fuel-depot infrastructure at LJG (chinabidding.com and docin.com bid/EIA notices) — exact into-plane operating-unit name and current local depot status not separately; treat as documented at group/branch level with LJG-specific infrastructure evidence.
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De-icing
Not listed
Part-145 line maintenance
Unconfirmed
Yunnan Airport Aircraft Maintenance Service Co., Ltd. (云南空港飞机维修服务有限公司)
Corrections to draft: the actual registered entity is 云南空港飞机维修服务有限公司 — a separately-incorporated wholly-owned subsidiary of Yunnan Airport Group (not a '分公司'/branch of it), founded 9 June 2003 (not 2012) and consolidated into its present single-company form in July 2023. It is one of Yunnan's CAAC Part-145 maintenance organisations, per its own Baidu Baike entry and Sohu reporting (Apr 2025), covering line maintenance (pre-flight/turnaround/post-flight), marshalling/towing, GPU/ACU ground power and air-con, de/anti-icing and AOG support for roughly 70 airlines across 19 airports province-wide (corrected from draft's '15 airports'). Lijiang is not individually named by these sources, so presence at LJG specifically is inferred rather than directly confirmed — downgraded to unconfirmed on that basis, though it is highly likely given LJG is one of Yunnan's largest trunk/international airports within the same parent group. The draft's specific citation of a 'CAAC Southwest Regional Administration 2025 airworthiness work conference' naming maintenance-unit attendees for the Lijiang jurisdiction could not be independently verified and has been dropped.
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Part-145 base maintenance
Not listed
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
On request
Universal Aviation (China) – Lijiang (ZPLJ) FBO Desk
Universal Aviation's ZPLJ page lists 'Catering Arrangements' as a featured on-request service with an 'Order Now' link under a stated preferred-partner catering programme; not a flight-kitchen physically on-field. The specific partner name (Air Culinaire Worldwide, per draft) is Universal's standard preferred caterer at many of its China FBO locations but was not independently re-confirmed as ZPLJ-specific on — treat as plausible, not freshly reverified.
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Aircraft cleaning
Not listed
Ground support equipment
Not listed
Cargo handling
Available
Yunnan Airport Logistics Co., Ltd. (云南空港物流股份有限公司)
Controlled subsidiary of Yunnan Airport Group; its own Baidu Baike entry explicitly names it as providing cargo/mail apron support, baggage handling and cargo-terminal operations for domestic and foreign carriers at both Kunming Changshui and Lijiang Sanyi International Airport, with associated warehousing and freight-agency business — confirms draft. Strengthens the evidence: company registry (qcc.com) shows a dedicated Lijiang Branch, 云南空港物流股份有限公司丽江分公司, registered 30 Jan 2008, giving LJG-specific corporate presence rather than only a group-level claim.
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Aviation security
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Yunnan Airport Group – Lijiang Regional Airport Management Branch (云南机场集团有限责任公司丽江区域机场管理分公司)
Correction to draft: the airport branch does run its own on-site Security Screening Station (安检站) — e.g. reported handling 2026 Spring Festival travel-rush passenger/baggage screening under the byline '丽江区域机场管理分公司安检站'. But the draft's claim that a 'Public Security Sub-bureau (公安分局)' is one of the airport OPERATOR's own seven internal departments is not supported: passenger/airport policing at LJG is provided by a separately-administered government law-enforcement body, the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department's Civil Aviation Airport Police Bureau, Lijiang Sub-bureau (云南省公安厅民用机场公安局丽江分局 / 机场派出所), not an internal unit of the airport company. Category kept as security (screening genuinely occurs, run in-house by the airport branch) but the 'in-house police / seven departments' framing has been dropped as unconfirmed and likely incorrect.
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Passenger & crew transport
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Lijiang Civil Aviation Blue Sky Tourism Bus Service Co., Ltd. (丽江民航蓝天旅游汽车服务有限责任公司)
Corrected legal name from draft's '...服务中心' (Service Center): the registered entity (est. 28 Apr 1999, per qcc.com/aiqicha company registry) is '...服务有限责任公司' (Co., Ltd.). Operates the official airport shuttle bus between Lijiang city (Blue Sky Hotel/蓝天宾馆 ticket office, near Xianggelila Avenue) and Lijiang Sanyi International Airport; city-to-airport departures every 30 minutes, airport-to-city departures timed to flight arrivals. Uniform fare CNY 20/person (cash/WeChat/Alipay accepted; children under 1.2m free, 1.2-1.5m half price) — confirmed via a Sina News summer-2026 Lijiang transport guide and city8.com's route page. Corrected from draft: the Blue Sky Hotel terminus is reported roughly 2.5 km from the Old Town Big Water Wheel landmark, not ~1 km. · 06:00-22:00 city-to-airport (sources give the operating window as 06:00-22:00 or a 06:20 first departure; treat as approximate); rolling per flight arrival airport-to-city
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Flight support
Available
Universal Aviation (China) – Lijiang (ZPLJ) FBO Desk
Confirmed via Universal Aviation's own dedicated ZPLJ location page (universalaviation.aero/locations/china/lijiang-zplj): business-aviation FBO/trip-support desk covering Lijiang Sanyi via local ground-supervisory agents; featured services include permit coordination, ground transportation and third-party arrangement sourcing, with the page stating close, long-standing relations with Lijiang Sanyi International Airport management and local authorities for parking/permits. On-site contact confirmed: Ricky Fang, Assistant General Manager, direct ••• — matches draft exactly. Main support line ••• also confirmed on the same page.
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Hotel & travel
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