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This is a list of airports in Bhutan, sorted by location. Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia , located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by Tibet .
Paro International Airport (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་གནམ་ཐང༌།, romanized: paro gnam thang) (IATA: PBH, ICAO: VQPR) is the sole international airport of the four airports in Bhutan. It is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi; 3.2 nmi) from Paro in a deep valley on the bank of the river Paro Chhu .
The airline was due to begin flights on 20 April 2009 to Bagdogra Airport in India, but had to delay the inaugural flight due to the lack of immigration and customs facilities at the airport. [69] The inaugural flight to Bagdogra Airport left Paro Airport on 18 June 2009, making Drukair the first international airline to operate into the airport.
Aircraft have been operating in Bhutan since 1968. [4] It was not until 1983 that Bhutan's national airline, Druk Air, established a unit to look after civil aviation matters. [4] In order to comply with international requirements to have an independent aviation safety authority, the Department of Civil Aviation was established in January 1986.
The terms for the Kings of Bhutan Druk Gyalpo ("Dragon King"), and the Bhutanese endonym Drukpa, "Dragon people," are similarly derived. [27] Names similar to Bhutan—including Bohtan, Buhtan, Bottanthis, Bottan and Bottanter—began to appear in Europe around the 1580s. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier's 1676 Six Voyages is the first to record the ...
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Bathpalathang Airport (IATA: BUT, ICAO: VQBT) is a domestic Bhutanese airport in Jakar (Bjakar), Bumthang District. [1] One of only four airports in the country, it opened on 17 December 2011 with flights to Paro. [2] The airport suspended operations in July 2012 due to runway damage, [3] but it has since reopened to limited service. [4]
The Druk Gyalpo (King of Bhutan) is the head of state and the symbol of unity of the kingdom and of the people of Bhutan. The Constitution establishes the " Chhoe-sid-nyi " (dual system of religion and politics) of Bhutan as unified in the person of the king, who, as a Buddhist , is the upholder of the Chhoe-sid (religion and politics; temporal ...