As of July 2015, no scheduled passenger flights serve the airport, but civil air operations are allowed with prior approval.

[8] Material stockpiled by the US at Shamshernager (but never used) included chemical weapons, specifically 18 rail wagon loads of 1,000-pound bombs filled with cyanogen chloride.

[9] The U.S. 61st Air Service Group was based at Shamshernagar in the final months of World War II.

[10] On 31 December 1970, a Fokker F-27 Friendship 200 of Pakistan International Airlines on approach to Shamshernagar crash-landed short of the runway, turned over to the right, and burned.

The Independent reported a senior CAAB official as saying, "If the airlines are not interested in using our airports, we can't force them to."