Jinnah International Airport

Jinnah International Airport (previously Quaid-e-Azam International Airport) (IATA: KHI, ICAO: OPKC) is Pakistan's largest international and domestic airport. It is located in Karachi, in Sindh, and is also commonly known as the Jinnah Terminal.

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IATA: KHI – ICAO: OPKC
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner/Operator		Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority
Serves		Karachi, Sindh
Elevation AMSL		100 ft / 30 m
Coordinates		24°54′24″N, 067°09′39″E
Website		www.karachiairport.com.pk
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
07R/25L	3,400	11,155	Concrete
07L/25R	3,200	10,500	Concrete

Events

• On 7 April 1929, Karachi airport became the first airport in British India to be used for a commercial flight, when an aircraft landed with mail going to Bombay.
• On 19 August 1980, Saudia Flight 163 flew from Karachi to Riyadh for its first leg. When the aircraft started its second leg to Jeddah, a fire ignited. The plane landed and everyone died.
• A Pan Am Boeing 747 named the Clipper Empress of the Seas, called Pan Am Flight 73, was hijacked on 5 September 1986. Twenty people were killed when the airplane was hijacked on the ground in Karachi, Pakistan.
• 22 May 2020, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303

Jinnah International Airport Media

• Karachi Airport in 1943 during World War II.jpg

  Karachi Airport in 1943 showing the air terminal and some of the apron.

• Karachi Airport 1958.jpg

  A reconstruction of what Karachi airport looked like in 1958.

• A reconstruction of what Karachi International Airport looked like in 1992.

• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner PH-BKA (100 Years livery).jpg

  KLM were the first world airline to serve Karachi, in 1929.

• PK Karachi Airport asv2020-02.jpg

  Interior of the terminal of the Jinnah Int. Airport in Karachi, Pakistan

• Jinnah International Airport.jpg

  Aerial view of Jinnah International Airport, 2010

• PIA helicopter Dacca.jpg

  A Pakistan International Airlines helicopter parked in front of the Karachi airport terminal 1 building in the 1960s, this photo is mistakenly claimed to have been taken in Dacca International Airport

References

• Authorized Flight Permit Agent For Pakistan Overflight Permit
• Flight Dispatch Center
• OPIS ISB Islamabad Airport Data
• OPRN Rawalpindi Airport Data
• OPKC KHI Karachi Airport Data
• OPLA LHE Lahore Airport Data
• OPRK RYK Rahim Yar Khan Airport Data

Other websites

• Official Website of Jinnah International Airport
• Old Official Website
• Pakistani Aviation Archived 2021-07-31 at the Wayback Machine