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New Islamabad International Airport or Gandhara International Airport is an under construction international airport in Attock District, it is located 20 km from the center of Islamabad and 23 km from Rawalpindi, it will serve both the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. It is being built to replace the existing Benazir Bhutto International Airport due to the ever growing number of passengers. It is expected to be complete and operational by December 2016. The airport project was conceived in 1984 for which the acquisition of land started near Fateh Jang the same year. Once completed it will be the first Greenfield airport in Pakistan, it will consist of 90 check-in counters and a parking facility for 2,000 vehicles will cater to ten million people every year in its first phase. Moreover, a covered plaza area for 200 cars, a control tower, maintenance hangar, a 15-gate terminal with ten remote gates, a four star hotel, convention centre, duty-free shops, food court and 42 immigration counters. == History == The plan to construct a new airport for Islamabad was conceived in the late 1980s to deal with the problem of increased passenger load at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport. The current annual turnover of passengers at the current airport is about 3.5 million. It was estimated that the number of passengers at the airport is growing by 14 per cent annually compared to national air passenger growth rate of less than four per cent, making it the third busiest airport in the country. Therefore, a site in Attock district was selected as the site for the construction of a new airport just a few kilometers from the Islamabad interchange on M1/M2 motorways. However the project couldn't be started and was repeatedly postponed till 2005. The plan to construct a new airport was announced on 7 January 2005 by Civil Aviation Authority. The foundation stone of the project was laid by former President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on 7 April 2007. In 2011 Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani announced that a new airport will be constructed in the territory of Islamabad naming it the International Rawal Airport. The design for that airport was ready and the initial construction was started but however was stopped due to the suspension of the designated Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. After taking seat Nawaz Sharif has announced that the work on Rawal Airport will be started again in 2016 and will be fully functional till the end of his 5-year government. The CAA asked a team of British architects to design the new airport. The airport is the first-ever green-field airport in Pakistan and would be built at a cost of $300 million. CAA signed an agreement with Louis Berger Group of USA in association with Pakistani consulting firm GT AASR, to undertake project management services. It is anticipated that the new facility will become operational by December 2016.〔http://tribune.com.pk/story/57036/islamabad-airport-to-be-complete-by-2013-shuja/〕 This airport will be the largest and most modern in Pakistan upon completion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Islamabad International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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