OPPS
Peshawar International Airport
VFR
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Name
Peshawar International Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
OPPS / PEW / OPPS
- Type
- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
9:21 am (PKT)
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Municipality
Peshawar
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Coordinates
33° 59′ 38″ N 71° 30′ 52″ E
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Elevation
1’211 ft (369 m MSL)
About Peshawar International Airport
Bacha Khan International Airport (IATA: PEW, ICAO: OPPS), formerly known as Peshawar International Airport, is an international airport located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Located in the southwestern end of the city of Peshawar, it is the fourth-busiest airport in Pakistan.
One of the main runways of the airport is crossed by a railway line known as the Khyber train safari, which runs to the town of Landi Kotal in the Khyber Pass for the express purpose of tourism. The airport was renamed on 27 January 2012 after Abdul Ghaffar Khan (nicknamed Bacha Khan), leader of the Khudai Khidmatgar and a prominent Pashtun Nationalist figure. The airport was extensively reconstructed from 2016 to 2018.