GIL

Gilgit Airport

ICAO OPGT35.9188°N 74.3336°E1,462 m / 4,796 ftMedium airport
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Gilgit Airport (IATA: GIL, ICAO: OPGT) is a medium airport in Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,646 m (5,400 ft). It is operated by Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
07/25072° / 252°
LENGTH1,646 m5,400 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
09/27090° / 270°
LENGTH300 m983 ftWIDTH15 m49 ftSURFACEConcrete

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
100 km200 km300 km50 mi100 mi150 mi200 miISB · Islamabad International Airport · 297 km / 185 miISBGIL

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GIL. From the Wikipedia article “Gilgit Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

1 airline · destinations from GIL
Passenger1
PKPakistan International Airlines1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from GIL. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway1,646 m5,400 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,613of 29,858 · #1,292 Asia · #51 PKElevation1,462 m4,796 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#2,315of 43,403 · #290 Asia · #10 PKRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=715of 29,978 · =31 Asia · =1 PK
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels
RDORDO292.300
TWRTWR119.100