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Kashgar Airport

Kashgar, CN

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Kashgar Laining International Airport

Kashgar, China · Asia-Pacific

Kashgar's T2-plus-rebuilt-T1 4E field is an easy 8–10 km hop with a ¥2 bus and a real sofa CIP — the tradeoff is snack-only lounges, a thin international bank, joint-use weather, and a 240-hour TWOV stamp that Xinjiang does not issue.

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7.3/ 10

Solid

Ease of use7.6
Comfort & amenities7.2
Food & retail6.8
Ground access8.6
Reliability6.6
Lounges6.6

How the score works

An editorial 0–10 score. The overall is exactly the weighted sum of six traveler categories — not a Google rating and not a poll.

25%Ease of use — Wayfinding, security wait, and layout.
20%Comfort & amenities — Seating, Wi-Fi, cleanliness, and quiet.
15%Food & retail — Food and retail quality and variety.
15%Ground access — Transit, taxi, and parking to the city.
15%Reliability — Delays, cancellations, and weather resilience.
10%Lounges — Worth-it density and access quality.

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Kashgar Laining International Airport

Kashgar, China · Asia-Pacific

Kashgar's T2-plus-rebuilt-T1 4E field is an easy 8–10 km hop with a ¥2 bus and a real sofa CIP — the tradeoff is snack-only lounges, a thin international bank, joint-use weather, and a 240-hour TWOV stamp that Xinjiang does not issue.

Airportist Score

7.3/ 10

Solid

Ease of use7.6
Comfort & amenities7.2
Food & retail6.8
Ground access8.6
Reliability6.6
Lounges6.6

How the score works

An editorial 0–10 score. The overall is exactly the weighted sum of six traveler categories — not a Google rating and not a poll.

25%Ease of use — Wayfinding, security wait, and layout.
20%Comfort & amenities — Seating, Wi-Fi, cleanliness, and quiet.
15%Food & retail — Food and retail quality and variety.
15%Ground access — Transit, taxi, and parking to the city.
15%Reliability — Delays, cancellations, and weather resilience.
10%Lounges — Worth-it density and access quality.

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Arrive
30 min
before domestic flights
Typical security
12 min
editorial average, not live
Fastest to city
~15–20 min to central Kashgar / 古城, traffic depending (~8–10 km)
Official taxi curb (T2 1F doors 2–3)
Cheapest to city
公交2路 / 机场快线 (T2 arrivals door 3)
official leftover ¥2 city bus; 机场快线 leftover ¥15 · ~25–50 min to 人民广场 / old-city adjacent, traffic depending
Lounges
2
Terminals
T2 main domestic + T1 rebuilt domestic hold (one 4E runway; T3 not live; no metro)

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Editorial profile notes — not a live alert feed. Live operations are on Overview and in the panel below.

Published alerts

Typical operations snapshot — editorial, not live news. File dated Sep 20, 2026.

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CAAC leftover 2025 放行 is unpublished for this field. Profile stores 0.T3 leftover is not live. T1 leftover is a rebuilt domestic hold from 1 Jul 2025, not paused-forever. One 3,200 × 45 m 4E strip is the passenger campus. Joint-use leftover is an overlay, not a second passenger terminal.240-hour TWOV does not enter at KHG. Stay leftover is not Xinjiang. Skip-immigration does not. 24-hour sterile TWOV does.Do not merge leftover T3-as-live, leftover T1-paused-forever, leftover ZWSH as a public slug, leftover ksairport.net, leftover metro-as-open, leftover 240-hour TWOV, leftover skip-immigration, leftover DAFIF 41 m, leftover English Wikipedia 23,800 m² as the whole campus, leftover 15 km, leftover Hong Kong CZ8107 as a September bank, leftover 日均40架次 as the same number as 日均20班, or leftover 塔什库尔干 as this IATA.

Typical delay mix from the same editorial snapshot — not a live feed. Current operations are on Overview.

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Normal operations

No Flighty-reported operational issues for this airport.

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Status response Sep 21, 23:34 UTC · Confirm live conditions with official sources before travel.

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