Hyderabad Airport حيدرآباد ھوائي اڏو حیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Operator | Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority | ||||||||||
Serves | Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan | ||||||||||
Closed | 2013 | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 135 ft / 41 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 25°19′06″N 068°22′00″E / 25.31833°N 68.36667°E | ||||||||||
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The Hyderabad Airport ( IATA: HDD, ICAO: OPKD) is a domestic airport in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. It is very close to the Pakistan Army's Sindh Regimental Centre and the HDA Kohsar Housing Society. The airport has been closed to commercial traffic as of 2013. [1]
Hyderabad Airport was closed to commercial traffic in 1998. [1] It reopened on 19 August 2008 with Pakistan International Airlines announcing flights twice weekly to Islamabad and Lahore via Nawabshah. [2]
However, the airport was closed again to commercial traffic in 2013 due to financial losses and other reasons [1] [3]
On 25 May 1998, PIA Flight 544 was a flight that was hijacked in Turbat. The final stand off between the hijackers and armed forces took place at Hyderabad Airport, [4] resulting in the eventual capture of two of the three hijackers. [5] The third was killed.
Hyderabad Airport حيدرآباد ھوائي اڏو حیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Operator | Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority | ||||||||||
Serves | Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan | ||||||||||
Closed | 2013 | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 135 ft / 41 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 25°19′06″N 068°22′00″E / 25.31833°N 68.36667°E | ||||||||||
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The Hyderabad Airport ( IATA: HDD, ICAO: OPKD) is a domestic airport in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. It is very close to the Pakistan Army's Sindh Regimental Centre and the HDA Kohsar Housing Society. The airport has been closed to commercial traffic as of 2013. [1]
Hyderabad Airport was closed to commercial traffic in 1998. [1] It reopened on 19 August 2008 with Pakistan International Airlines announcing flights twice weekly to Islamabad and Lahore via Nawabshah. [2]
However, the airport was closed again to commercial traffic in 2013 due to financial losses and other reasons [1] [3]
On 25 May 1998, PIA Flight 544 was a flight that was hijacked in Turbat. The final stand off between the hijackers and armed forces took place at Hyderabad Airport, [4] resulting in the eventual capture of two of the three hijackers. [5] The third was killed.