Dera Ghazi Khan Airport Guide

Dera Ghazi Khan Airport serves Dera Ghazi Khan, a city in the southwest of Punjab province, Pakistan. It carries the ICAO code OPDG and sits at an elevation of 148 metres, about 15 kilometres from the city centre. The Pakistan Airports Authority runs it as a public domestic airport.

The airport has a single asphalt runway, 18L/36R, which is 1,990 metres long. Traffic is light. The airport recorded 12,059 passengers in the 2016-17 financial year, a fall of 14.2 percent on the year before. Airlines have found scheduled services here hard to sustain commercially, and the Civil Aviation Authority told a 2024 public hearing that no airline was operating to the airport.

The Pakistan Airports Authority has announced a runway upgrade, with completion expected by December 2026. The work widens the runway to 45 metres and extends it so that larger aircraft can land, and the authority expects it to open new routes and raise flight frequency. The authority has also stated that Dera Ghazi Khan Airport stays open for operations while route allocation depends on airline assessments of commercial viability. Travellers should confirm with an airline before planning a trip, since scheduled service can start and stop.