Dehong Mangshi International Airport Guide

Dehong Mangshi International Airport (ICAO: ZPMS) serves Mangshi, the seat of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in western Yunnan, close to the border with Myanmar. The site first opened in 1940 as a wartime airstrip with a 1,900 m runway and was abandoned after 1945. Civil flights began on 10 April 1990 with a Boeing 737-300 service to Kunming. The airport was renamed Dehong Mangshi Airport in 2003 and received its current name on 30 May 2023, after an upgrade to international status in 2016.

The single runway, 05/23, is 2,600 m long after an extension completed in 2018. A new terminal building opened on 6 May 2009. It has 13,000 m2 of floor area, with about 10,500 m2 for domestic departures and 2,500 m2 set aside for international traffic, and it has three boarding bridges. The airport has an instrument landing system, in service since 2000.

In 2025 the airport handled 3,075,024 passengers, 24,432 aircraft movements and 16,281 tonnes of cargo, according to Civil Aviation Administration of China figures. Ruili Airlines runs the widest network, and China Eastern, China Southern, Air China, Spring Airlines and Sichuan Airlines also fly here. The first international route, to Mandalay, started in 2019. Myanmar National Airlines now flies to Mandalay and Yangon.