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Tibet Airlines was approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China in March 2010 and was established at Lhasa on 17 June 2010. It originally ordered three Airbus A319 airliners, receiving its first aircraft on 2 July 2011.
The airline commenced its inaugural route from Lhasa Gonggar Airport to Ngari Gunsa Airport on 26 July 2011 and began flights to Beijing and Shanghai later that year. The airline also announced plans to start direct flights to Europe by 2016. In February 2011, The Times of India reported that the airline was interested in starting operations in India and other countries in South and Southeast Asia.
The first international flight of Tibet Airlines was launched on 1 July 2016, connecting Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport and Samui Airport in Thailand. In September 2016, the airline confirmed that they had received permission to launch service to the Black Sea resort of Sochi from Sanya via Chengdu, starting in 2017.
On 8 January 2019, Finnish airport operator Finavia announced that Tibet Airlines will open a new route between Jinan, Shandong Province and Helsinki, Finland in April 2019. The route is to be operated twice weekly with Airbus A330 equipment.
On 16 February 2026, Tibet Airlines rebranded to Xizang Airlines.
From Wikipedia’s article on Xizang Airlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3