Bhairahawa Airport is a domestic airport serving the Lumbini Zone in Nepal. Bhairahawa Airport will be upgraded to a Regional International Airport by 2018 with an upgraded runway of 3,000 m. The airport will have the capacity of serving 760,000 passengers annually after the completion of the first phase. This will include the construction of a new runway, exit and parallel taxiways with flexible pavements, new international aircraft parking apron with rigid pavements, together with the rehabilitation of the existing runway for conversion into parallel taxiway, drainage system parallel to the runway, taxiway and diversion of the Ghaghara Khola and airport boundary.