ISB
Islamabad International Airport
Islamabad International Airport (IATA: ISB, ICAO: OPIS) is a large airport in Attock, Punjab, Pakistan. It opened on 3 May 2018. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,658 m (12,001 ft). It is operated by Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority.
Timeline
1 event · 2018–201803 MAY 2018
OpenedIslamabad International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap10L/28R101° / 281° · LIT
LENGTH3,658 m12,001 ftWIDTH45 m147 ftSURFACEAsphalt
10R/28L100° / 280° · LIT
LENGTH3,658 m12,001 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Routes
31 destinations · 18 countriesYear-round31
LHEAllama Iqbal International AirportPakistan · Fly Jinnah270 km168 miKBLKabul International AirportAfghanistan · Kam Air, Ariana Afghan Airlines352 km219 miMUXMultan International AirportPakistan · South Air395 km245 miBHVBahawalpur AirportPakistan · South Air479 km298 miDYUDushanbe International AirportTajikistan · Somon Air662 km411 miUETQuetta International AirportPakistan · Fly Jinnah666 km414 miKHGKashgar Laining International AirportChina · China Southern Airlines725 km450 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · Uzbekistan Airways912 km567 miBSZManas International AirportKyrgyzstan · Aero Nomad Airlines1,067 km663 miKHIJinnah International AirportPakistan · Fly Jinnah, South Air, airblue +11,107 km688 miURCÜrümqi Tianshan International AirportChina · China Southern Airlines1,711 km1,063 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · SalamAir, AirSial1,797 km1,117 miRKTRas Al Khaimah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia1,853 km1,151 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Fly Jinnah, airblue1,905 km1,184 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Emirates, airblue +11,922 km1,194 miIKAImam Khomeini International AirportIran · Mahan Air, Iran Airtour1,993 km1,238 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways, airblue, AirSial2,033 km1,263 miGYDHeydar Aliyev International AirportAzerbaijan · Azerbaijan Airlines2,156 km1,340 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways2,246 km1,396 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Fly Jinnah, Gulf Air2,281 km1,417 miDMMKing Fahd International AirportSaudi Arabia · Fly Jinnah, airblue, AirSial2,347 km1,458 miKWIKuwait International AirportKuwait · Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways2,402 km1,493 miBGWBaghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air BaseIraq · Iraqi Airways2,646 km1,644 miNJFAl Najaf International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways2,655 km1,650 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Fly Jinnah, Riyadh Air, Flynas +42,699 km1,677 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Fly Jinnah, airblue, AirSial +13,550 km2,206 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · Thai Airways3,580 km2,225 miPEKBeijing Capital International AirportChina · Air China3,923 km2,438 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines3,944 km2,451 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · China Southern Airlines4,086 km2,539 miLGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · British Airways6,041 km3,754 miMost destinationsFly Jinnah 8airblue 7AirSial 7South Air 3China Southern Airlines 3Iraqi Airways 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ISB. From the Wikipedia article “Islamabad International Airport” (revision of 19 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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
10 channelsTowerIslamabad Tower122.150
TowerIslamabad Tower123.255
GroundIslamabad ZGround130.600
GroundIslamabad Ground122.950
DEPIslamabad Departure118.550
DEPIslamabad Departure119.650
GMC123.050
GMC125.150
APPIslamabad Approach124.650
APPIslamabad Approach121.650