Lukla, NP 🇳🇵 Small Airport Scheduled Service
VNLK
LUA
9380 ft
NP-P1
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Loading...GPS Code: VNLK
Local Code: Not available
Location: 27.686768° N, 86.729479° E
Continent: AS
Type: Small Airport
Keywords: Mount Everest Tenzing Norgay Sir Edmund Hillary
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| Designation | Length | Width | Surface | Status |
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1616 ft | 98 ft | asphalt | Active |
| Type | Description | Frequency |
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| APP | - | 122.3 MHz |
| TWR | - | 122.5 MHz |
There are no roads leading to Lukla, and therefore no taxi services are available. The village of Lukla is small and entirely walkable. For transporting heavy luggage and trekking gear, travelers hire local porters or use pack animals like yaks or dzopkyos.
Car rental services are non-existent in Lukla. The airport and the surrounding Everest region are not connected to any road network, making vehicular travel impossible.
There is no public ground transportation such as buses or trains at Lukla Airport. The primary mode of transport to and from the region is by small aircraft, with flights connecting to Kathmandu and Ramechhap (weather permitting). The only other way to leave the area is by multi-day trekking.
While trying to fix VNLK runway location, I noticed that lat/lon coordinates were rounded to 4 decimals which, at the equator, gives a precision of about 11meters. I would think that an extra digit or two would not hurt in terms of DB size and would greatly enhance runway localization.
Those pilots must've gigantic balls to Land in here. The village is really beautiful.
Alex have right Lukla is one of the most dangerous and extreme airport in the world.
Planning to trek to Everest Base Camp maybe in 2017 (need some training before....). Heard and read a lot about Lukla Airport ! Looking forward to spend some adrenaline by landing and taking off the most dangerous airport in the world ! Alex
So both STOL, then.
Reply to @david: This is not correct. I am a frequent flyer to Lukla and Twin Otter and Dornier fly to Lukla. In fact more Dornier then Twin Otter
The runway is short (1,500 ft) at high elevation (over 9,000 ft), so the airport is accessible only to helicopters and to STOL aircraft like Twin Otters.
The Nepal government plans to rename the airport in honour of Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary, the first people to climb Mt. Everest (the airport serves Everest).