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Lijiang Sanyi Airport

Lijiang, CN

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Lijiang Sanyi International Airport

Lijiang, China · Asia-Pacific

Yunnan's second international field is a plateau T1/T2 tourist airport with a ¥20 bus and snack-grade Priority Pass — the tradeoff is a 3,000 m 4D strip at 2,242.8 m, no metro, and a T3 / 4E overlay that is not flying.

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7.2/ 10

Solid

Ease of use7.4
Comfort & amenities7.2
Food & retail7.0
Ground access8.0
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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Lijiang Sanyi International Airport

Lijiang, China · Asia-Pacific

Yunnan's second international field is a plateau T1/T2 tourist airport with a ¥20 bus and snack-grade Priority Pass — the tradeoff is a 3,000 m 4D strip at 2,242.8 m, no metro, and a T3 / 4E overlay that is not flying.

Airportist Score

7.2/ 10

Solid

Ease of use7.4
Comfort & amenities7.2
Food & retail7.0
Ground access8.0
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
2 h
before departure
Typical security
12 min
editorial average, not live
Fastest to city
~30–50 min to the old-town gates, traffic depending (~22–30 km)
Official taxi curb (arrivals 2号门)
Cheapest to city
机场大巴 to 福慧路蓝天宾馆
leftover ¥20; city leftover 06:30–22:00 / 30 min; airport leftover last flight · ~40–60 min to 蓝天宾馆 / old-town edge, traffic depending
Lounges
4
Terminals
T1 domestic + T2 international / HMT (one 4D 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 / 3,500 m / 4E leftover are not live. One 3,000 m 02/20 4D strip is the passenger campus. North-apron 12 new stands leftover 2026 are not a second runway.

240-hour TWOV applies. Stay leftover is nine Yunnan cities, not Yunnan-wide. Skip-immigration does not. Yunnan leftover of that add-on is KMG from 5 Nov 2025.

Do not merge leftover T3-as-live, leftover dual-runway-as-live, leftover ZPLJ as a public slug, leftover English Wikipedia Opened 28 June 2012, leftover Seoul-as-a-September bank, leftover DragonPass T2国内 on Lounge 2, leftover skip-immigration, leftover metro-as-open, leftover lib/airports.json name dropping International, or leftover military as the public product.

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

Typical departure delays0 min · 0%

Typical arrival delays0 min · 0%

Typical cancellations0 min · 0%

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Normal operations

No Flighty-reported operational issues for this airport.

Source: Flighty Airports

Status response Sep 21, 23:35 UTC · Confirm live conditions with official sources before travel.

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