A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight landed at the Gwadar International Airport, making it the first commercial aircraft to arrive at the new airport after its inauguration on Monday.

An official of the Pakistan Airport Authority (PAA) said in a statement that the first commercial flight, PK-503, had landed at the airport at 11:15am.

The statement read that the flight departed from Karachi at 9:50am and “touched down at the state-of-the-art Gwadar facility at 11:15 AM, carrying 46 passengers”.