Paro International Airport

Paro Airport

སྤ་རོ་གནམ་ཐང༌།
Paro Airport; སྤ་རོ་གནམ་ཐང༌།
	IATA: PBH; ICAO: VQPR;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Department of Civil Aviation of Bhutan
Serves	Thimphu and Paro
Location	Paro, Paro District, Bhutan
Hub for	Bhutan Airlines; Drukair;
Elevation AMSL	2,235 m / 7,332 ft
Coordinates	27°24′32″N 089°25′14″E / 27.40889°N 89.42056°E
Website	paroairport.com
Map
	PBH Location within Bhutan
Runways

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Paro International Airport (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་གནམ་ཐང༌།, romanized: paro gnam thang) (IATA: PBH, ICAO: VQPR) is the sole international airport of the four airports in Bhutan. It is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi; 3.2 nmi) from Paro in a deep valley on the bank of the river Paro Chhu. With surrounding peaks as high as 5,500 metres (18,000 ft), it is considered one of the world's most challenging airports,^[2] and only a very small number of pilots are certified to land at the airport.^{[citation needed]}

Flights to and from Paro are allowed under visual meteorological conditions only and are restricted to daylight hours from sunrise to sunset.^[3]^[4] Paro airport was the only airport in Bhutan until 2011.^[5] The airport is accessible by road, 6 km (3.7 mi; 3.2 nmi) from Paro city, and 54 km (34 mi; 29 nmi) from Thimphu by Paro-Thimphu road.

^ ^a ^b "About Us". Paro Airport. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
^ Cruz, Magaly; Wilson, James; Nelson, Buzz (July 2003). "737-700 Technical Demonstration Flights in Bhutan" (PDF). Aero Magazine (3): 1, 2. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
^ "Paro Bhutan". Air Transport Intelligence. Reed Business Information. 2011. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
^ Lee, Natalie Joy (2 August 2019). "7 Facts You Never Knew About Flying Into Bhutan". Druk Asia. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
^ "History". Archived from the original on 23 November 2016.

[paro-1] "About Us". Paro Airport. Retrieved 3 January 2022.

[boeing-2] Cruz, Magaly; Wilson, James; Nelson, Buzz (July 2003). "737-700 Technical Demonstration Flights in Bhutan" (PDF). Aero Magazine (3): 1, 2. Retrieved 12 February 2011.

[3] "Paro Bhutan". Air Transport Intelligence. Reed Business Information. 2011. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2011.

[4] Lee, Natalie Joy (2 August 2019). "7 Facts You Never Knew About Flying Into Bhutan". Druk Asia. Retrieved 3 January 2022.

[5] "History". Archived from the original on 23 November 2016.

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