Sialkot International Airport is situated 14 km (8.7 mi) west of Sialkot in the Sialkot District of Pakistan. It is the first and only privately owned airport in Pakistan. It was built by the business community of Sialkot. Before the completion of the new green field Islamabad International Airport, it also had the longest runway in Pakistan.
According to the Pakistan Civil aviation authority, the airport handled 939,899 passengers between July 2024 and June 2025.
History Sialkot international airport was inaugurated on november 30th, 2007 and is the first fully privately owned, public international airport in all of south asia.
A new international terminal was inaugurated in 2018.
In January 2019, the inaugural Pakistan International Airlines flight from Paris via Barcelona touched down in Sialkot, linking the city to Europe for the first time.
Structure
Sialkot is a major export hub of Pakistan. The airport is structurally capable of handling heavy wide-body aircraft, such as Boeing 747s or A340s. The airport authority is currently collaborating with a private company to develop the airport. Additionally, a new terminal is currently under construction to deal with an increase in passengers as well as cargo imports and exports.
The airport provides services of fuel farms, aircraft ground maintenance, catering and related services through concessions to private parties.
The runway is 3,600-metres long, and 45-metres wide with 7.5-metre wide shoulders on either side corresponding to International Civil Aviation Organisation Category 4E.
The link taxiway is 263 metres long and 23 metres wide with 10.5-metre shoulders.
It has aprons for passenger and cargo, 95,000-sq metre area. It is a combination of flexible and rigid pavements and also for nose-in parking for 7 wide bodied aircraft plus 4 ATR-42 aircraft at a time.
Two passenger boarding bridges have also become operational.
Airlines and destinations
See also List of airports in Pakistan Sialkot Cantonment Airport Sialkot International Airport Limited
References
External links
Official Website of Sialkot International Airport Limited Accident history for SKT at Aviation Safety Network