BEIJING, Feb. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Special round-trip tickets for Air China's flights between Lhasa, capital of Tibet, and other cities will be available during the annual Spring Festival traffic rush.

    The Lhasa Office of Air China will sell round-trip tickets with a 50 percent discount, namely, 1,500 yuan, for flights between Lhasa and Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, from February 14 to 19, excluding tax.

File photo shows an aircraft landing on the Gongkhar Airport in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.  (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    It will offer tickets for flights between Lhasa and Chongqing Municipality with a 40 percent discount, namely, 1,900 yuan, till February 20.

    Meanwhile, the single tickets for flights from Lhasa to Chengdu and Chongqing will be offered a 20 percent and 35 percent discount respectively.

    Passengers are advised to book the tickets one week in advance and to check in at the airport two hours before departure.

    To ensure the traffic safety, passengers have to go through two safety inspections in Lhasa's Gonggar Airport. Besides, they are forbidden to carry inflammable and explosive dangerous goods on board.

Building of Lhasa-Gonggar Airport highway to finish in 2011

    BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Construction of the highway linking Lhasa with the Gonggar Airport in Shannan Prefecture, southeastern Tibet, is expected to be completed by August, 2011.

    The project started in 2009 and has made an investment of 72.82 million yuan (10.67 million U.S. dollars) since, according to a meeting on Tibet's traffic and transportation services held on Monday. Full story

Airbus A-330 to debut in Tibet's Lhasa in March

    BEIJING, Feb. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- The Sichuan Airlines is expected to introduce Airbus A-330 to the Lhasa Airport, according to the Lhasa Office of the company.

    In 2010, the Sichuan Airlines will increase flights in the Lhasa Airport to cope with Tibet's booming tourism market. Full story