74M to JFK - Question?

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74M to JFK - Question?

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Does PIA still operate 74M Combis to JFK? :?
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Post by turbulence »

They only operate 743 to jfk,no 74m and no 777,74m is only reserved for lhr flights.
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According to the PIA website PK 721 ISL-MAN-JFK is operated by 74M.

Another question is since PIA is operating PAK-IAH(Houston) only once a week. Does the crew slip in Houston for the whole week??????
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Another question is since PIA is operating PAK-IAH(Houston) only once a week. Does the crew slip in Houston for the whole week??????
They must! Since they do that here in Chicago as well.
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Gee!!! Thats some outstation allowance the crew is making$$$.
Must be a waiting list to get for those flights.
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yes its extremely ineffecient. Just dont understand the 1 flight a week concept, how is it economicaly viable.
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What they can do is to extend the route :
eg. KHI - ISB- ORD or LHE-KHI- IAH or KHI - JFK - ORD
there can be any number of possibilites and PIA can still maintain 2 a week flight schedule to both Houston and Chicago.
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If there is only 1 flight a week for Houstan then what about the aircraft? Does it stay whole of the week there?
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74M's fly to Newyork JFK on Weds only i see them every wed and 743's on sat and 777's on Friday and sunday only
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If there is only 1 flight a week for Houstan then what about the aircraft? Does it stay whole of the week there?
The flight back to MAN and onwards to Pakistan is same day both from ORD and IAH
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Thanks for the help. I am going this december to PK for a wedding on the way there we got the 777, busniess, and on the way back 74M, business, how is the 74M's business class any good?
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PakN'US wrote:The flight back to MAN and onwards to Pakistan is same day both from ORD and IAH
Then why do the crew stay there for whole of the week? They should get back home the same or the second day ??? Confused :?
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Falcon598 wrote:Thanks for the help. I am going this december to PK for a wedding on the way there we got the 777, busniess, and on the way back 74M, business, how is the 74M's business class any good?
yeah the business class is pretty ok on the 74M if you get AP-BAT. BAT has personal TVs in every seat, if they come out. My ptv was jammed and would not come out. AP-BAK does not have ptvs, maybe they have installed them now in that plane, as when i travelled on it in feb there was nothing. I have to say that the business class seats on the 74Ms are very big, but they do not recline 180 degrees.
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Is AP-BAT the aircraft the 74M they usually use on the JFK-MAN-ISB route?