Korla Airport – KRL
Korla Airport is a public-use airport found in the city of Korla, China, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. This serves as the main entryway via air to Korla, the second-biggest city in the region of Xinjiang and the home of the fragrant pears. The airfield is assigned the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) airport code of ZWKL and International Air Transport Association (IATA) location identifier of KRL.
Best Time to Visit
KRL-Korla Airport stands at an elevation of over 900 meters above the mean sea level and features a single runway with a length of 2,780 meters. The airport accommodated a total of 1,743,761 passengers and more than 7,600 cargo. This amounted to almost 18,000 aircraft movements that year. Nine airlines currently serveKorla Airport and connect the city to different city destinations within China. If you’re coming into the country via Korla Airport, you should check out the various sites and landmarks of the city of Korla before heading off to the other parts of the region.
What to Do & Area Attractions
Currently, Korla Airport does not have any available airport hotels yet. But there are plenty of hotel choices available to the north of Korla Airport, some of which are The Garden Hotel Korla, the nearby The Puju, and the Loulan Hotel. These hotels are a little over half an hour's drive from the airfield. While all of them feature an in-house restaurant and a 24-house front desk service, only The Garden Hotel Korla and Loulan Hotel are equipped with massage services and a sauna.
