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Probably one of the few images I liked of this airport... stunning
 
New metro project likely to be completed by April end

Islamabad - Construction work on 25.6-kilometre Peshawar More to New Islamabad Airport Metro Bus Service is likely to be completed by end of April .

National Highway Authority (NHA) spokesman Kashif Zaman said that all bridges of Package-I and IV had been completed while over 80 per cent of the bridges of Package-II and III had also been completed . He said that all underpasses of the project had been completed except those in the Package-III while overall, he said, 92 per cent of the underpasses had been completed . He said that all the culverts of the projects had been completed . He said that over 80 per cent progress had been achieved on civil works of the first three packages while 94 per cent progress has been achieved on the last package.

The project has been divided into fo4ur packages including Package-I from Peshawar More to NUST, Package-II from NUST to GT Road, Package-III from G T Road to Motorway Interchange and Package-IV from Motorway Interchange to the New Islamabad Airport.
 
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waqas03
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So i installed the NIIA scenry in flight simulator and to a good suprise, it was very similar to the original, e.g

1. Terminal was very similar,just the glass color of cladding had a different shade.
2 The terrain matches the lcoation, specially the mountains just near the airport
3. The terminals cargo building was also in the simulation

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when will this bloody thing open??

As far is building is concern, yes it's completed and no one ever denied.
Airport road is not completed till now that's incompetency of NHA plus some other issues.
Second thing is airport operations, till now even Civil Aviation has no idea how to run the operations.
They tried to follow international practice of outsourcing but failed, my guess the issue is cost here because outsourcing is always costly.
 
All the need to do is hire a management expert with proven track in the aviation industry for fixed period of say 5 years. Such expert will most likely be from the West or Chinese/Far Eastern. This person would already have record of a running a major airport in the developed world. Salary of say $500,000 pa. would elecit the right talent. Let him hire another 4 senior managers say at $250,000 pa. This would make for a strong management team of 5 costing $1.5 million a year.

Let them have total freedom to set up the airport operations team. Hiring staff and all other required policies let them handle it for 5 years with a annual performance review. In 5 years the airport would roaring success. Have a clause that the management team cultivates local talent which takes over the running of airport when the 5 year term expires.

Total cost of this $1.5 million times 5 is $7.5 million. Considering this is nearly a billion dollar project this cost is pennies. However this will never happen. The government will do everything to stuff the airport with their own favourites. Even the damned cleaners are going to get jobs on sifarish. And know the what the result will be.

On a positive note this is still good news. There is nothing worse intro to Pakistan then landing at Chaklala. Even African countries have better airports. I will be visting Pakistan late autumn with some foreign friends and hope this thing is open then.
 
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Airblue flight kitchen almost ready..may be they will be first to start flights.

Attock fuels petrol station on site opening in few days.

New CAA HQ completed.
 
This doesn't look like will be completed anytime soon.
 

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