Airport · Pakistan

How much did New Islamabad International Airport cost to build?

The New Islamabad International Airport (Benazir Bhutto International Airport) is Pakistan's first greenfield airport, a Y-shaped facility 20 km from central Islamabad with a 180,000 m2 modular terminal designed for nine million passengers a year in its first phase and about 25 million after expansions, begun in April 2007 and inaugurated by the prime minister on 1 May 2018 after years of delay. Dawn reported on 2 May 2018 that it was built at a cost of Rs105 billion, against an estimated investment of USD 400 million (PKR 37 billion) given by Airport Technology, so the USD 3.91 billion of the earlier snapshot, taken from a list of transport megaprojects, is unsupported.

Reported project cost

PKR 105 billion

Approximately $861.9 million

Cost basis: 2018

Front view of the Islamabad International Airport by Ahabbscience Studio.
Ahabbscience Studio Pak (Ahabbscience StudioCC BY-SA 4.0

Cost evidence

Basis of the published figure

Reported project cost2018
airport-technology.com

Project metrics

Key dimensions

Floor areaAirport Technology
180,000 m²
Annual passengersDawn
9,000,000 passengers/year

Project record

Timeline

  1. 2007

    Construction started

    Airport Technology
  2. 1 May 2018

    Opened or launched

    Dawn

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