PIA to Start Non-stop Flights Between Karachi and Skardu

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PIA to Start Non-stop Flights Between Karachi and Skardu

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From May 16, PIA is starting twice-a-week non-stop flights between Karachi and Skardu with Airbus A320 aircraft.

Route: Karachi to Skardu
Flight Number: PK455
Day of Operation: Friday, Sunday
Aircraft Type: Airbus A320
Flight Duration: Two hours and fifteen minutes

Route: Skardu to Karachi
Flight Number: PK456
Day of Operation: Friday, Sunday
Aircraft Type: Airbus A320
Flight Duration: Two hours and fifteen minutes

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Flights will boost tourism in Gilgit-Baltistan and also provide convenient air travel facility to residents of Gilgit-Baltistan working in Karachi and adjacent cities.

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Finally! I have been wondering for years if it will ever happen. It seems like aimed at a weekend tourists. IS a covid-PCR test mandatory for GB?

Although I wonder how frequently, due to weather conditions, the flight will end up in Islamabad?
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A PIA spokesperson confirmed that in the case of bad weather in Skardu in the flight from Karachi will be diverted to Islamabad instead of returning to Karachi.

Weather conditions change suddenly in Skardu.

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PIA promoting airline's non-stop flights between Skardu and Karachi staring from May 16.

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This is probably the longest domestic flight operated by PIA

Obviously not counting Lahore-Dacca and Karachi-Dacca before 1971.
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^ Interesting fact.

PIA Karachi-Skardu service - The first non-stop flight to link Pakistan's mountainous north with country's Arabian Sea coast.

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PIA operated non-stop flight from Karachi to Skardu for the first time today.

Today, PIA Airbus A320 registration AP-BLY departed from Karachi at 8:14 AM as flight PK6455 to Skardu. The flight carried 178 passengers and 8 crew members

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Source: flightradar24.com

Earlier flights were cancelled due to bad weather.

On May 21, more than 100 passengers at Karachi Airport kept waiting for departure of flight to Skardu before it was cancelled due to bad weather.

https://arynews.tv/en/pia-skardu-flight ... t-weather/

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From Skardu PIA Airbus A320 registration AP-BLY arrived in Islamabad at 12:38 PM as flight PK6452.

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From Skardu PIA Airbus A320 registration AP-BLU arrived in Karachi at 12:40 PM as flight PK6456. The flight carried 68 passengers.

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Earlier today, AP-BLU had arrived in Skardu as flight PK451 from Islamabad.

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PIA Airbus A320 registration AP-BLU departing from Skardu as flight PK6456 to Karachi. The parked PIA Airbus A320 is registration AP-BLY that had arrived in Skardu as flight PK6455 from Karachi.

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