Skardu in 50 minutes. Not 18 hours.
10 packages · from PKR 145,000Direct flights, premium hotels and private transport. The trip is priced for your whole group; air tickets are per seat.
Choose your departure city to see the all-in price. Until then these are the land packages only — hotels, transport and guiding, without the air tickets.
What flying actually buys you
The Islamabad–Skardu sector takes about an hour. The same journey by road is two days each way, so a by-air package turns a seven or eight day trip into four or five — and those saved days go into the valleys rather than into the vehicle. On a clear morning the flight passes Nanga Parbat close enough to fill the window, which is not a small part of why people choose it.
It is also the reason most of our Skardu, Shigar and Khaplu trips are sold this way. If you would rather drive, the same valleys are on our Skardu packages page as by-road itineraries.
Why the airfare is quoted separately
Everything on the ground — the vehicle, the driver, the rooms — is priced for the group as a whole, because the vehicle is hired whole and does not cost more with a fifth person in it. Airlines sell seats. So the fare is the one line here that grows with the size of your party, and we keep it out of the group total rather than folding it in.
That also keeps a by-air trip honestly comparable with the same trip by road: the land price is the land price either way. The fare shown beside each package is an estimate — the office books the seats by hand and confirms the real figure when it does.
When the flight does not go
This sector is weather dependent and cancels at short notice, more often than the published schedule suggests. It is the single most common thing that changes a northern itinerary, and any operator who tells you otherwise has not run enough of them.
We plan for it rather than hope. If the flight cancels we rebook you on the next departure and talk to the hotel. Travelling down by road instead is possible and we will arrange it, but it is seventeen to twenty hours and is charged separately — it is not part of the package price. If you have an international connection out of Islamabad, tell us before booking and we will build a buffer night in — that one sentence has saved more trips than anything else on this page. Timings and routing may change according to the airline. If you are flying in from abroad for a family holiday, the same buffer thinking runs through our packages for overseas Pakistanis.