PIA Boeing 777 With Chipping Off Paint

[Abbas Ali]

PIA Boeing 777-200ER registration AP-BMG photographed on February 23, 2020.


AP-BMG 777-200 PIA LHR SPECIAL LIVERY by Ian Fox, on Flickr

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[Abbas Ali]

PIA Boeing 777-200ER registration AP-BGL photographed at Milan Malpensa Airport, Italy, on February 18, 2020.

AP-BGL | PIA Pakistan International Airlines | Boeing B777-240(ER) | CN 33777 | Built 2004 | MXP/LIMC 18/02/2020 by Mick Planespotter, on Flickr

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[Abbas Ali]

PIA Boeing 777-200ER (aircraft registration AP-BMG) landing at London Heathrow Airport on March 8, 2020, as flight PK785 from Islamabad.

AP-BMG - Boeing 777-2Q8(ER) - LHR by Seán Noel O'Connell, on Flickr

Sistership AP-BGJ halso as begun loosing chunks of paint on fuselage and below vertical stabilizer where old green and yellow stripes have begun appearing.

https://flic.kr/p/2iyogT3

AP-BGZ also facing same problem with the paint.

https://flic.kr/p/2iCEFTt

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[Amaad Lone]

Its humiliating and embarrassing to watch PIA planes with such poor quality paint job.

I have never seen any major airline planes in such poor condition.

I had never seen PIA planes in such condition ever before.

Shame shame shame.

[Abbas Ali]

AP-BGZ photographed on March 8.

https://flic.kr/p/2iD4S9S

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[Jamshed]

Results of third class painting job.

[Abbas Ali]

PIA Boeing 777-200ER (aircraft registration AP-BMH) photographed landing in Copenhagen as flight PK771 from Lahore on March 21, 2020.

IAP-BMH PIA B777, CPH 2020 MG_2170 by Per Voetmann, on Flickr

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[KSKJADOON]

The suspension of flights is an excellent opportunity to repaint these aircrafts. And if possible to replace the seat cloths and carpets.

[Abdulrafeysiddiqui]

Its better PIA does not re-paint airplanes as it will be money loss again. Aircraft will be painted in the same open/uncontrolled environment as before and the result will be same as of now.

[Abbas Ali]

PIA Boeing 777-200LR registration AP-BGZ in Chengdu on April 9, 2020.



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[daniyal 07]

Notice the chipping of paint on top of the fuselage, this is a disgrace for not only the airline but the country and shows substandard practices are being adopted by the airline for maintenance of aircraft.

[murtaza12]

Aside from looking terrible, aren't there negative effects of chipping paint as well?

Risk of corrosion or rust on the fuselage?

[Adnan Anwar]

All 777 probably need D and were probably about to be sent for D check but Corona hit. JUst my thought.

Chipping of Paint is not maintenance issue, see countless larger airlines with paint chipping off sometimes but doesn't mean maintenance neglect.

[Amaad Lone]

So four 777-200ERs with paint job problem. AP-BGL AP-BMG AP-BMH AP-BGZ.

BGK just came out and repainted so lets see how long that lasts.

Just saw the BHX video that showed the plane landing in Oslo and that aircraft seems fine, wonder when it got painted??

I think PIA must have bought some kind of inferior paint while these four were due for a paint job and hence the chipping off the paint.

Now they have floated a tender to get paint from companies approved by Airbus and Boeing.

Having lost 12 billion in 45 days I wonder what exactly can PIA do to survive as the covid 19 is not going anywhere and seems like normal traveling will not re-start before September 2020.

[Faisal777]

AP-BMH:

Islamabad 7 April:


Birmingham 8 April: