Im with Abbas, Multan is a fast expanding city it has a large export not just mangoes. There are a number of different other products produced in the city and surrounding neighbourhoods. The city is known for its cultural heritage sites. The Mausoleum of Sheikh Baha-ud-Din Zakariya, as well as the Mausoleum of Shah Rukn-e-Alam, the Mausoleum of Shams-ud-Din, the Nuagaza tombs, the mosques, gurdwaras etc Many people from South Punjab travel great distances to travel abroad. The new airport will reduce the no. of hours passengers have to travel and allow more links to be created with South Punjab.Abbas Ali wrote:Population wise Multan is a bigger city than Sialkot and airport of Sialkot is now served by PIA widebody aircraft like Airbus A310-300 and Boeing 747-300 plus cargo flights by international operators.newflyer wrote:They are spending hundreds of millions on this useless project.
In my opinion Multan Airport deserved this upgradation to allow widebody aircraft flights and I think this airport will see significant increase in international passenger and cargo traffic with widebody passenger and cargo aircraft operations in coming years.
There's also plan to establish cold cargo storage centre at Multan Airport for fruit/vegetable exporters from Multan and south Punjab.
Abbas
Cargo will expand as air trasport will become easier which hopefully will allow more cargo airlines to establish themselves in that region.
As for the design it does look quite outdated, still I guess anything is better than the one they have no. I hoped a glass and steel structure would have been more with today. Still the expansion is not too little nor too big I think four parking spaces will be plenty to handle the no. of passengers flights in and out of Multan.
