Chitral
Chitral Airport is a small domestic airport situated 2 NM north of the city centre of Chitral, in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. In March 2025, Pakistan International Airlines, the national flag carrier, stated that it would resume, after a gap of about three years, flights between Chitral and Islamabad from April 5 initially once a week.Photo: Alhabib7, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Airfield
- Description: airport in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Chitral Airfield”, “Chitral Airport”, “CJL”, and “OPCH”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chitral.
Chitral
Photo: Muhammad Zubair Zaibi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chitral is a town situated on the Chitral River in the northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It serves as the capital of the Lower Chitral District, and was previously the capital of Chitral District, and before that, the capital of Chitral state, which was dissolved and made an administrative unit of West Pakistan between 1969 and 1972.
Chitral
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Western Panjabi—“Chitral” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “吉德拉尔机场”
- Chinese: “吉德拉爾機場”
- Chinese: “奇特拉尔机场”
- Chinese: “奇特拉爾”
- Chinese: “奇特拉爾機場”
- Chinese: “契特拉机场”
- Chinese: “契特拉機場”
- French: “aéroport de Chitral”
- French: “Aéroport de Chitral”
- French: “CJL”
- German: “Flughafen Chitral”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Chitral”
- Indonesian: “CJL”
- Indonesian: “OPCH”
- Italian: “aeroporto di Chitral”
- Japanese: “チトラル”
- Japanese: “チトラル空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Chitral”
- Persian: “فرودگاه چیترال”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Czitral”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Chitral”
- Russian: “Читрал”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Читрал”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи читрол”
- Urdu: “چترال ہوائی اڈا”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay Chitral”
- Western Panjabi: “چترال ایئر پورٹ”
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