Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport

ICAO VGHS23.8433°N 90.3978°E9 m / 30 ftLarge airport

Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (IATA: DAC, ICAO: VGHS) is a large airport in Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. It opened in 1980. It has one runway, 3,200 m (10,499 ft) long, paved. It is operated by Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh. In 2018 it handled 8.9 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1980–1984

1980

OpenedHazrat Shahjalal International Airport opens.

05 AUG 1984

Disaster1984 Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 crash.49 killed

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

14/32144° / 324° · LIT

LENGTH3,200 m10,499 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEPaved

Passengers per year

2007–2018

3.1M

4.2M

4.1M

4.7M

4.8M

5.6M

5.7M

5.6M

6.3M

6.5M

7.6M

8.9M

070809101112131415161718

Routes

17 destinations · 9 countries

Year-round12

Seasonal1

AUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways3,618 km2,248 mi

Cargo5

CCUNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose International AirportIndia · Easy Fly Express239 km149 mi DELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Easy Fly Express1,426 km886 mi CANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Easy Fly Express2,331 km1,448 mi HKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Easy Fly Express2,409 km1,497 mi CGOZhengzhou Xinzheng International AirportChina · Easy Fly Express2,559 km1,590 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from DAC. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport” (revision of 14 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

13 airlines · destinations from DAC

Hub airlines7

BSUS-Bangla Airlines5 2AAir Astra3 5ZBismillah Airlines —Fly Dhaka Airlines VQNovoAir RXRegent Airways 4HUnited Airways

Passenger5

MSEgyptAir1 EYEtihad Airwaysseasonal · 1 FZflydubai1 J9Jazeera Airways1 WYOman Air1

Cargo1

8EEasy Fly Express5

Former hub of GMG Airlines and Royal Bengal Airline.

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers8.9M (2018)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#240of 3,974 · #78 Asia · #1 BD Longest runway3,200 m10,499 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=818of 29,858 · =245 Asia · #1 BD Elevation9 m30 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,463of 43,403 · =2,780 Asia · #9 BD AgeOpened 19802026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=8,063of 15,079 · =396 Asia · #3 BD Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =185 Asia · =1 BD

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

5 channels

APPDHAKA APP121.300

ATISDHAKA ATIS127.400

GNDDHAKA GND121.800

RDODHAKA RDO294.700

TWRDHAKA TWR118.300