Pakistan
Gwadar International Airport to become ‘operational’ on August 14
PM Shahbaz Sharif will inaugurate the new airport
Gwadar: New Gwadar International Airport to become operational from August 14.
According to sources in Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the new Gwadar Airport will be made operational on August 14, for which all the arrangements have been made.
Sources informed that launching of the airport will be carried out by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
According to the CAA sources the cost of New Gwadar International Airport is Rs54.98 billion.
The new Gwadar Airport is located 26 km north-east of the existing Gwadar airport and 3,000 acres of land was given for it by the government of Pakistan. Like the new Islamabad Airport, Gwadar Airport is the second greenfield airport of Pakistan.
The airport will be capable of handling a combination of ATR 72, Airbus, (A-300), Boeing (B-737), and Boeing (B-747) for domestic as well international routes.