SQNo1 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2004, 681 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (6 years 2 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 1859 times:
PIA have had to siginificantly reduce their schedule for flights to the European Union because of the ban that exists on all of their aircraft, with the notable exception being their Boeing 777-200ER, Boeing 777-200LR and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Their flights that used to operate Pakistan-MAN-JFK are currently operating through IST for example.
VV701 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 6631 posts, RR: 17 Reply 2, posted (6 years 2 months 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 1753 times:
Two arrests were made airside of passengers scheduled to fly PIA from MAN today. These two men and one arrested in Leeds have been transported to Padding High Security Police Station in north west London for questioning in relation ot the 7/7 London suicide bombings. They are the first arrests made with respect to these events and the timing seems to be related by their planned departure to Pakistan. This may be related to the flight cancellation.
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11141 posts, RR: 63 Reply 3, posted (6 years 2 months 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 1710 times:
There's a new airline readying themselves to jump in and help themselves to some of PIA's previous market share. Flying with European 747-200's, but considering that EAL's last flyable 742 was supposed to be scrapped at Kemble shortly, I'm not sure where they are getting it from, perhaps a 'new' one from the desert? Only twice a week, but they have a massive 50kg baggage allowance in Eco... that's the most I have ever seen, hopefully they will get off the ground.
EZYAirbus From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2003, 2448 posts, RR: 53 Reply 5, posted (6 years 2 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 1503 times:
Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 3): There's a new airline readying themselves to jump in and help themselves to some of PIA's previous market share. Flying with European 747-200's, but considering that EAL's last flyable 742 was supposed to be scrapped at Kemble shortly, I'm not sure where they are getting it from, perhaps a 'new' one from the desert? Only twice a week, but they have a massive 50kg baggage allowance in Eco... that's the most I have ever seen, hopefully they will get off the ground.
Interesting Dan indeed, I checked out there website and came across this page http://gsairlines.com/about-us/about-us.htm it shows an image of the rear of a 747-200 , I read the reg as G-BDXG, so I typed this registration in http://www.airfleets.net I searched the reg and it came back as the aircraft being scrapped!
777way From Pakistan, joined Dec 2005, 5205 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (6 years 2 months 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1323 times:
PIA have dropped Stansted too and it wont be resumed, they have also for a single 744 on wet lease for three months or more depending on which airline they get it from.
Quoting SQNo1 (Reply 1): Their flights that used to operate Pakistan-MAN-JFK are currently operating through IST for example
No, only two JFK services were routed via Istanbul with 747's, after wchich they refused additional slots probably to please Europe, all US services are now again via MAN.
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