Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abbottabad Airport


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  03:36, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Abbottabad Airport

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WP:HOAX –  no such airfield, helipad or heliport named as "Abbottabad Airport" exists, nor existed before. Radioactive (talk) 02:23, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Aviation and Pakistan. Radioactive  (talk) 02:23, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment. I would expect a city the size of Abbottabad (population over 240,000) to have at least a private or military airfield even though it has no airport with commercial service. I see lots of online sources claiming that IATA has assigned the code AAW and ICAO has assigned the code OPAB to this airport. I can't prove that this airport exists, but a lot of websites claim it exists, such as Flightradar24, AirportGuide, Skyscanner, and FlightAware. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 23:00, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * @Metropolitan90 All these links are (I'll say) false positives, maybe got created in result of creation this Wikipedia page. There are a few helipads located in different parts of the city, like one in the Baloch Regiment HQ, one in the PMA, one in the ASPT etc. All these helipads are used occasionally, but most importantly none is called as/or can be classified as "Abbottabad Airport". Secondly there's no reliable link to verify existence of "Abbottabad Airport". Google search results for "Airport in Abbottabad", "Abbottabad Airport", "Military airport Abbottabad", "Army airport Abbottabad", "Private airport Abbottabad" and urdu translation of all these queries gave no useful and reliable result. Even AAW and Abbottabad searched on IATA official website, returned no result. Radioactive (talk) 10:34, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete – The fact that the IATA website itself has no knowledge of the supposed IATA code of this airport strongly suggests that the basic details of this alleged airport, and possibly the whole article, are made up. --Deeday-UK (talk) 11:26, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete agree with what Deeday-UK said. Craigwikiman (talk) 17:13, 25 May 2022 (UTC)


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