The New Islamabad International Airport, in Fateh Jang Tehsil of Attock District some 30 km southwest of the city, is expected to be completed and operational by 2014. According to official sources in the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), a Chinese company and the Frontier Works Organization (WFO) are working round the clock to complete construction of passenger terminals buildings before the deadline. Talking to APP, an official said the new airport will replace the existing one, Benazir Bhutto International Airport located at Chaklala.
At present, the Benazir Bhutto International Airport is handling 18 airlines. However, most of the international commercial flights are operated during the morning, causing delays. According to the source, the new airport spread over 3,600-acre would not only serve the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi but also the adjoining provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Estimated to cost about $400 million, the new airport facility, which is the first green-field airport in Pakistan, would comprise a contemporary state-of-the-art passenger terminal building, control tower, runway with a provision of a secondary runway, taxiways, apron, cargo complex, and hangar together with all the necessary infrastructure and ancillary facilities. The new airport would cater to the requirements of modern passenger aircrafts. He said the new airport will have a modular design to handle 6.5 million passengers and 80,000 metric tonnes of cargo annually.
A significant portion of the land has been earmarked for commercial purposes such as duty-free shops, hotel and convention centre, air malls, business centre, food courts, leisure and recreational facilities.
The new airport is envisaged to be a modern landmark structure to represent a twenty-first century Pakistan, as it will be the diplomatic and business gateway to Pakistan through Islamabad.
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Lets hope that it completes in time as none of a project in Pakistan is completed in time.
hope it get pass the red tape bureaucracy in 2014 not in 2024
brother alot of project have been complete with in time ,,itnaa b naa umeed na banoo , kbe ache news b perh lya karo pak k
You can have a fancy airport, but if the custom officials continue to smoke under the no smoking sigh and the immigration officer harras passegners, thats not going to look very nice.
to whom you are saying ???
Its too far away from Islamabad.
I wonder who will come visiting Pakistan given that it's heading to be a rogue state. I think building a new airfield with a tatched roof arrival and departure lounge and a duty free that sells only copies of Quran to fit all budgets will be quite sufficient.
Neibours have rights over one another .it is better to point out good things about one another rather than bad.
Do you have anything better in your life except to criticize Pakistan, You hate monger Indians.
Aarvey Go back to nasty India and drown yourself in Dirty full of piss mummy Ganga
new airport??? wat are we going to do with that when our airlines are not working???
LOL
Atleast they are building one, don't be nagging NAG.
hope that they will complete it timely and also a it will connected by Train and private passenger busses to nearest station . also the Immigartion pplz and the customs pplz will be Trained well that how to managed and behave the pplz.
after all INDUS AIR has to operate….
They dont have the money to purchase new aeroplanes,and they r building this new airport.They need to buy the aeroplanes first,considering the high number of PIA planes have been grounded.
Its not the matter of purchasing new planes, our govt. is willingly destroying P.I.A so that the personal air service of a special family would be able to replace P.I.A as Indus Air Ways.
Wr from these passengers n air lines r going to come????
Inshallah we r hope in 2012 or maximum 2013 new airport will be functional. and inshallah one day all departments people in new islamabad airport will be serve u friendly.
I have seen at peshawar airport that immigration officials throwing naswar and water under there working table … this will also happen in islamabad…
most of the custom officials are from Punjab (i have asked them) that work at Peshawar airport and have learned the local language but still behave in the Punjab ways unfortunately.
plz finsh work soon on islambad airport and start on new mirpur international airport hub for airlines like far east
plz plz build airport in mirpur azad kashmir its on pakistan side its not on indian side do not leve on paper work pakistan and azad kashmir zinda bad
The new airport will be operational soon, there were unavoidable circumstance due whic the work had hampered in the past. They are work 24/7 to complete it. Present Governemt ZindaBaad.
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