Karachi Included in Virgin Altantic Plans to Introduce New Flights from Expanded London Heathrow Airport

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Karachi Included in Virgin Altantic Plans to Introduce New Flights from Expanded London Heathrow Airport

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Karachi is included in Virgin Atlantic plans to increase flights from London Heathrow when the airport expands.

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Further information here: https://www.virgin.com/news/virgin-atla ... n-heathrow

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Re: Karachi Included in Virgin Altantic Plans to Introduce New Flights from Expanded London Heathrow Airport

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Abbas Ali wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:50 pm Karachi is included in Virgin Atlantic plans to increase flights from London Heathrow when the airport expands.

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Further information here: https://www.virgin.com/news/virgin-atla ... n-heathrow

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Runway extension is not until 2026 - so this is some years away. Perhaps Virgin may consider sooner, to compete with BA :-k
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Karachi appearing on Virgin Atlantic's Website as a possible future destination!

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Hi all,
Thought I would share the following link from Virgin Atlantic's website & their wish list of future destinations.
Interesting to note Karachi appears on the list.
Of course this may never happen or may take a while but interesting to see European carriers now taking an interest in Pakistan.
Thanks.
Jay

https://www.virgin.com/news/virgin-atla ... n-heathrow
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Re: Karachi appearing on Virgin Atlantic's Website as a possible future destination!

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JayeHussain wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:33 pm Hi all,
Thought I would share the following link from Virgin Atlantic's website & their wish list of future destinations.
Interesting to note Karachi appears on the list.
Of course this may never happen or may take a while but interesting to see European carriers now taking an interest in Pakistan.
Thanks.
Jay

https://www.virgin.com/news/virgin-atla ... n-heathrow
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Re: Karachi Included in Virgin Altantic Plans to Introduce New Flights from Expanded London Heathrow Airport

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I think that Delta Air Lines sees Karachi more of a money maker than Virgin, as there is a lot of traffic between the USA and Karachi that is tapped in by the middle east carriers. Even though VS and DL are in a Joint Venture, and essentially one owning the other, I would be surprised if they do decide to serve Karachi.
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Re: Karachi Included in Virgin Altantic Plans to Introduce New Flights from Expanded London Heathrow Airport

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VS = Virgin Atlantic Airways relationship with PIA because they agreement staff ticket ZED "LOW FARE" = 95% off of fare good luck for VS staff and PIA PK staff.
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Re: Karachi Included in Virgin Altantic Plans to Introduce New Flights from Expanded London Heathrow Airport

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In 2008 Virgin Atlantic A-340 diverted to KHI after an emergency. Its was parked at the one of the gates. Bright red tail was visible and Abbas might have the photo.
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Re: Karachi Included in Virgin Altantic Plans to Introduce New Flights from Expanded London Heathrow Airport

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^ Yes, that photo of Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340 in Karachi was posted in topic on following link:

https://historyofpia.com/forums/viewtop ... 095#p70078

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