GILOPGT

Gilgit Airport

Gilgit, Pakistan · Asia

Asia Asia/Karachi

1direct destinations

1airlines

2runways

1,646 mLongest runway

Gilgit Airport (IATA: GIL, ICAO: OPGT) is a small domestic airport situated 1.25 nm (2.3 km) east of Gilgit, a city in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan. The city of Gilgit is one of the two major hubs for mountaineering expeditions in the northern areas of Pakistan.

Location

35.919°N, 74.334°E · 1.462 m s. n. m. (4.796 ft)

General data

CountryPakistan

CityGilgit

IATA codeGIL

ICAO codeOPGT

Coordinates35.919°N, 74.334°E

Elevation1.462 m s. n. m. (4.796 ft)

Time zoneAsia/Karachi

Runways2

Longest runway1,646 m

OperatorAutoridad de aviación civil de Pakistán

Direct destinations1

Runways · 2

07/25

Length1,646 m5,400 ft

Width30 m98 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

09/27

Length300 m984 ft

Width15 m49 ft

SurfaceConcrete

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 1

Tower

119.100

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

Airlines operating here · 1

Other airlines with direct routes

Pakistan International Airlines

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Akbar Khan Niazi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Gilgit Airport (GIL). Retrieved October 25, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GIL

MLA

“Gilgit Airport (GIL).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GIL. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_gil,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Gilgit Airport (GIL)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GIL},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GIL}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-25},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-25}
}

Wikipedia

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