PIA to Dry Lease Narrow-body and Turboprop Aircraft

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Re: PIA to Dry Lease Narrow-body and Turboprop Aircraft

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Umar Farooq wrote:BTW, please note that only two of PIA ATR 42s operational now, out of six.
All the rest four are at Karachi for checks or not flying due to shortage of parts ?
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All the rest four are at Karachi for checks or not flying due to shortage of parts ?
Down for scheduled/unscheduled maintenance. AP-BHM and AP-BHN were seen out of engines, rest two maybe due to spares availability.
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Another piece of interesting information found on PCAA website;

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Source: Pakistan Aviation Information

Most probably,

3 x PIA ATR-72
3 x PIA Airbus 320s
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Whatever spare parts needs to be fixed should be replaced asap for those 42's so that the 72's can make it possible to double up the frequency of the short haul flights already flown.
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I'm guessing they've grounded BHI and BHH to bring back BHM and BHN online.
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aviator773 wrote:I'm guessing they've grounded BHI and BHH to bring back BHM and BHN online.
Engine swaps?
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Possibly. They do this for the 310's, e.g recently how they did to bring back BEU by grounding BEG.
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I know right they used to do it with the 737's all the time but why do they want to ground to BHH and BHI to bring back back BHM and BHN
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Sorry to say but, conditions are devastating, not only for PIA existing fleet but for newly inducted A320s and ATR 72s.
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Umar Farooq wrote:Sorry to say but, conditions are devastating, not only for PIA existing fleet but for newly inducted A320s and ATR 72s.
How is that so?
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Airbus A320-214 construction number 2719 under Czech registration OK-LEE performed test flight OK-9400 from & to Prague on April 28.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/ok-lee

Airbus A320-214 construction number 2758 under Czech registration OK-LEF performed test flight OK-9402 from & to Prague on April 28.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/ok-lef

'OK' is IATA code for Czech Airlines.

Probably test/acceptance flights for the two A320s before delivery to PIA.

Both aircraft were accepted by PIA bid evaluation report.

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Delivery flight of Airbus A320-214 construction number 2758 ex-OK-LEF as AP-BLV to PIA from Prague to Karachi expected today.

Probably registration AP-BLU reserved for A320 registration OK-LEE?

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AP-BLU and AP-BLV both were expected to land at karachi tonight.
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PIA ATR 72-500, construction number 994, registration AP-BKY delivery flight today.

Delivery flight route probably:

Toulouse-Francazal Airport, France --> Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, France --> Esenboga International Airport, Ankara, Turkey --> Jinnah International Air Port (JIAP) - Karachi, Pakistan.

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Position of A320's? Anyone?