Hyderabad Airport حيدرآباد ھوائي اڏو حیدرآباد ہوائی اڈا
IATA: HDD ICAO: OPKD
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority
Serves	Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
Closed	2013
Elevation AMSL	135 ft / 41 m
Coordinates	25°19′06″N 068°22′00″E / 25.31833°N 68.36667°E / 25.31833; 68.36667
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 02/20 2,132 6,997 Paved

The Hyderabad Airport (IATA: HDD, ICAO: OPKD) is a domestic airport in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. It is very close to the Pakistan Army's Sindh Regimental Centre and the HDA Kohsar Housing Society. The airport has been closed to commercial traffic as of 2013.^[1]

History

Hyderabad Airport was closed to commercial traffic in 1998.^[1] It reopened on 19 August 2008 with Pakistan International Airlines announcing flights twice weekly to Islamabad and Lahore via Nawabshah.^[2]

However, the airport was closed again to commercial traffic in 2013 due to financial losses and other reasons^[1][3]

Events

On 25 May 1998, PIA Flight 544 was a flight that was hijacked in Turbat. The final stand off between the hijackers and armed forces took place at Hyderabad Airport,^[4] resulting in the eventual capture of two of the three hijackers.^[5] The third was killed.