{"id":77730,"date":"2021-07-11T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=77730"},"modified":"2021-07-09T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T04:13:16","slug":"skardu-international-airport-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/skardu-international-airport-tourism.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Skardu to have a new international airport to promote tourism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Skardu: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday announced that the government has decided to establish a new international standard airport in Skardu to boost tourism, according to media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachi-skardu-flights-launched-in-gb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Direct Karachi-Skardu flights launched to promote tourism in GB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the federal minister, existing airports in Gilgit and Skardu are being renovated to international standards. He further stated that Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed that all airports be linked to tourism and that airports be operational all year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilgit and Skardu are major tourism hubs in Gilgit-Baltistan, and having an all-weather international airport is critical to boost tourism especially international tourists. Skardu&#8217;s domestic airport now has two asphalt runways, one 8,740 ft long and the other 11,944 ft long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/caa-to-improve-skardu-airport-to-handle-international-flights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CAA to improve Skardu Airport to handle international flights<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To encourage tourism in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has just begun flying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-skardu-faisalabad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">national flights<\/a> to Skardu from cities such as Faisalabad, Karachi, Islamabad, and Lahore. To encourage tourism, PIA relaunched its Safari Air flights last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skardu: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday announced that the government has decided to establish a new international standard airport in Skardu to boost tourism, according to media reports. Read: Direct Karachi-Skardu flights launched to promote tourism in GB According to the federal minister, existing airports in Gilgit and Skardu are being renovated to international standards. He further stated that Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed that all airports be linked to tourism and that airports be operational all year. Gilgit and Skardu are major tourism hubs in Gilgit-Baltistan, and having an all-weather international airport is critical to boost tourism especially international tourists. Skardu&#8217;s domestic airport now has two asphalt runways, one 8,740 ft long and the other 11,944 ft long. Read: CAA to improve Skardu Airport to handle international flights To encourage tourism in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has just begun flying national flights to Skardu from cities such as Faisalabad, Karachi, Islamabad, and Lahore. To encourage tourism, PIA relaunched its Safari Air flights last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":64102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15167],"tags":[46730,25375,46749,46750,46053,1700,46389],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-tourism","9":"tag-skardu-to-have-a-new-international-airport-to-promote-tourism","10":"tag-gilgit-baltistan-gb","11":"tag-international-airport-in-skardu","12":"tag-national-flights-to-skardu","13":"tag-skardu","14":"tag-tourism-in-pakistan","15":"tag-tourism-sector","16":"cat-15016-id","17":"cat-15167-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Skardu to have an international airport to promote tourism&#039;- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday announced that the government has decided to establish international...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/skardu-international-airport-tourism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Skardu to have an international airport to promote tourism&#039;- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday announced that the government has decided to establish international...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/skardu-international-airport-tourism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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