Multan airport expansion work to start shortly

Multan: Work on the expansion of Multan airport will begin in the first week of July with an estimated cost of Rs 4.5 billion. The project will be completed in two phases within 30 months. All the Boeing and Haj flights would be diverted to Bahawalpur and a bus would shift passengers to Multan.

Civil Aviation authorities said that Rs 1.80 billion would be spent in first phase and the remaining amount would be spent on second phase. CAA authorities said that four flights could be landed simultaneously at Multan airport after completion of the project. A 1000-metre to 150-metre wide runway would be constructed and it would handle more than one million passengers besides handling the exports of vegetables, fruits and textile goods worth billions of rupees.