{"id":363767,"date":"2026-02-07T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/worlds-highest-altitude-airports-still-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:00:16","slug":"the-worlds-highest-altitude-airports-still-in-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=363767","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Highest Altitude Airports Still In Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vast majority of major airports are at or somewhere near sea level. Whenever possible, airports are typically built beside mountain ranges and not in them, but this isn&#8217;t possible in some places, as with the regional capital of Tibet and the national capital of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"753071\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Bolivia<\/span><\/span>. Only a very small percentage of the world&#8217;s airports are above 6,500 feet (2,000 meters), with the very highest being over 14,400 feet (4,400 meters).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China and Bolivia claim the world&#8217;s highest commercial airports with others found in neighboring regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,9876],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-bhutan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363768,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363767\/revisions\/363768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}