Chitral Airport guide

Chitral Airport (ICAO OPCH) is a small domestic airport in Lower Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the far north of Pakistan. It sits about 3.7 km north of the town at an elevation of 1,500 metres, in a mountain valley near the Hindu Kush.

The airport has a single bitumen runway, designated 02/20, that is 1,768 metres long. It is owned by the Government of Pakistan's Aviation Division and run by the Pakistan Airports Authority. Pakistan International Airlines is the only scheduled operator, flying to Islamabad.

Traffic is very low. In 2023-24 the airport recorded 376 passengers and 18 aircraft movements, a fall of 42 percent in passenger numbers on the year before. Scheduled flights stopped for about three years, and PIA announced in March 2025 that it would resume the Islamabad service from 5 April, initially once a week. Mountain weather often disrupts flights, so road transport remains the main way into the valley.