Lahore Airport Runways, Taxiways and Apron Maintenance Work

[Abbas Ali]

Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) tender notice in today's (January 22) newspaper for replacement of pavement quality concrete (PQC) slabs of main runway 36R/18L near taxiway T at Allama Iqbal International Air Port (AIIAP) - Lahore.



Abbas

[Pakistan-1]

How do these slabs look like and what is their use ?

[Abbas Ali]

Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) tender notice in today's (January 23) newspaper for remarking/repainting of main runway, taxiways and apron at Allama Iqbal International Air Port (AIIAP) - Lahore.



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[Abbas Ali]

Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) tender notice in today's (January 24) newspaper for remarking/repainting of main runway, taxiways and apron at Allama Iqbal International Air Port (AIIAP) - Lahore. Improvement of pavements of runways (old & new), taxiway and apron to meet requisite of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards. Surface sealing of remaining portion of main runway at AIIAP - Lahore.

The two runways of Lahore Airport are:

Runway 36R/18L (main/primary and new runway).
Runway 36L/18R (secondary and old runway).



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[Abbas Ali]

According to City42 news channel:

Lahore Airport main runway 18L/36R is closed for repairs.







The airport's secondary runway 18R/36L will be available for flight operations.

Abbas

[AbdulAziz]

So what abt wide body aircraft operation ?? PIA, SV, EK , QR what they will do?
What about new lights installed are they remove them again ?

[Omairi7]

Only Runway 36L can be used for Landings and Takeoffs but with restrictions. For example Lhe-YYZ flight cannot takeoff on 2.9km runway. It requires minimum 3000 meter runway. Flights to UAE, Saudia, Or Europe can be managed.
I am still wondering about my tomorrow's flight by Emirates 623 due to fly at 3:30am. No updates from airline, agent or email so far regarding chanding in schedule or cancellation.

[Abbas Ali]

Airlines received advance notice from Pakistan CAA about main runway maintenance/repair work, according to City42 news channel.

Abbas

[Omairi7]

Thanks for the information Abbas Bhai.
Is there any website from where we can find any sort of info regarding changing in operational hrs (if any) for Lahore airport.

[Abbas Ali]

According to a news channel, main runway repair work will be completed by May 4.

Abbas

[Abdulrafeysiddiqui]

Can A330 take off from secondary runway for Saudi Arabia? I'll be flying to Jeddah on 19th March with Airblue

[Abbas Ali]

A news channel quoted an unnamed official saying that jumbo flights (probably he meant to say fully loaded Boeing 747?) will not be possible during closure of main runway. The official added that currently none of the airlines is operating jumbo for passengers flights at Lahore Airport.

I guess it means airlines will be able to use wide-body aircraft like Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 aircraft on secondary runway of the airport.

What about new lights installed are they remove them again ?

I don't think this repair work is going to disturb or damage ILS CAT-IIIB lighting system recently installed for Runway 36R.

Abbas

[aviator773]

A news channel quoted an unnamed official saying that jumbo flights (probably he meant to say fully loaded Boeing 747?) will not be possible during closure of main runway. The official added that currently none of the airlines is operating jumbo for passengers flights at Lahore Airport.

I guess it means airlines will be able to use wide-body aircraft like Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 aircraft on secondary runway of the airport.

What about new lights installed are they remove them again ?

I don't think this repair work is going to disturb or damage ILS CAT-IIIB lighting system recently installed for Runway 36R.

Abbas

All aircrafts till Boeing 777 are landing and taking off from 36L irrespective of the load on a particular flight. Before the closure of 36R some work has also been done on 36L to make it suitable for bigger aircrafts like 777 so yeah 36L is good to go for all aircrats except for boeung 747 obviously.

[AbdulAziz]

Approach and tower saying "ILS approach rwy 36 L " ?? r they shifted the instrument of ILS to 36L ?? can anyone confirm

[Abbas Ali]

^ Interesting! Could it be old ILS CAT-II removed from Runway 36R and installed on Runway 36L?

Abbas