RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will inaugurate Islamabad’s new airport on the first day of next month, but the facility will become operational on May 3, according to official sources.

They said that Mr Abbasi would inaugurate the airport on the morning of May 1, but flight operations would begin on May 3.

On the day of the inauguration only one Pakistan International Airlines flight would operate, said the sources.

They said that on May 3 all flight operations would be shifted to the new airport and the Benazir Bhutto International Airport would would be closed for airline operations.

Published in Dawn, April 26th, 2018

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