LHE
Allama Iqbal International Airport
Allama Iqbal International Airport (IATA: LHE, ICAO: OPLA) is a large airport in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It opened in 1962. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,360 m (11,024 ft). It is operated by Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority. In 2018 it handled 4.5 million passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1962–20121962
OpenedAllama Iqbal International Airport opens.
31 AUG 2012
DisasterPakistan International Airlines Flight 653.No deaths
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap18L/36R181° / 001° · LIT
LENGTH3,360 m11,024 ftWIDTH46 m151 ftSURFACEConcrete
18R/36L181° / 001° · LIT
LENGTH2,743 m9,000 ftWIDTH46 m151 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2010–20183.5M
4.5M
1018
Routes
24 destinations · 16 countriesYear-round22
ISBIslamabad International AirportPakistan · Fly Jinnah270 km168 miKDUSkardu International AirportPakistan · airblue437 km272 miUETQuetta International AirportPakistan · Fly Jinnah, airblue726 km451 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · Centrum Air, Uzbekistan Airways1,175 km730 miBSZManas International AirportKyrgyzstan · Aero Nomad Airlines1,283 km797 miMHDMashhad International AirportIran · Kish Air, Iran Airtour, Iran Air1,458 km906 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · Fly Jinnah, SalamAir1,814 km1,127 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Fly Jinnah, Emirates, AirSial1,985 km1,233 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways, AirSial2,089 km1,298 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways2,330 km1,448 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Fly Jinnah2,381 km1,479 miGYDHeydar Aliyev International AirportAzerbaijan · airblue, Azerbaijan Airlines2,396 km1,489 miDMMKing Fahd International AirportSaudi Arabia · Fly Jinnah, airblue2,452 km1,524 miCMBBandaranaike International Colombo AirportSri Lanka · FitsAir2,766 km1,719 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Fly Jinnah, Riyadh Air, flyadeal +12,802 km1,741 miNJFAl Najaf International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways2,828 km1,757 miBGWBaghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air BaseIraq · Fly Baghdad2,829 km1,758 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · Thai Airways3,337 km2,074 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · airblue3,653 km2,270 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · China Southern Airlines3,921 km2,436 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines4,178 km2,596 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Batik Air Malaysia4,291 km2,666 miStraight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LHE. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Allama Iqbal International Airport” (revision of 24 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Airlines
28 airlines · destinations from LHEPassenger23
9PFly Jinnah7PAairblue5PFAirSial3—Aero Nomad Airlines1J2Azerbaijan Airlines1ODBatik Air Malaysia1C6Centrum Air1CZChina Southern Airlines1EKEmirates1EYEtihad Airways18DFitsAir1IFFly Baghdad1F3flyadeal1IRIran Air1B9Iran Airtour1IAIraqi Airways1Y9Kish Air1QRQatar Airways1RXRiyadh Air1OVSalamAir1TGThai Airways1TKTurkish Airlines1HYUzbekistan Airways1Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from LHE. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,075 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
4 channelsAPPLAHORE APP121.300
ATISATIS126.300
GNDLAHORE GND118.400
TWRLAHORE TWR118.100