PIA ATR Technical Faults Discussed at Supreme Appellate Court Gilgit-Baltistan

[Abbas Ali]

Supreme Appellate Court Gilgit-Baltistan has directed Pakistan Civil Aviation Auth­o­rity (CAA) and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to submit a report on the operational life of PIA ATR aircraft deployed by the airline on flights between Islamabad and Gilgit and reasons behind technical faults in these flights.

In September Chief Justice of Gilgit-Baltistan Justice Sardar Muhammad Shamim Khan took suo moto notice on PIA ATR flights operated on Gilgit-Islamabad route.

PIA's chief technical officer informed the court that ATR planes are supposed to complete 70 thousand flight cycles of which only half have been completed. Chief Justice Shamim Khan asked: "Then why are technical faults emerging in ATR flights?"

https://www.dawn.com/news/1791694/pia-c ... ional-life

[Abbas Ali]

PIA ATR 42-500 (aircraft registration AP-BHI) at Gilgit Airport.

Presently, AP-BHI is the only operational ATR aircraft in PIA fleet.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhi

Sister ship AP-BHH is apparently inactive these days:

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhh

Abbas

[inducedrag]

Let other private operators also operate these so called loss making routes once PIA is sold new owners will close all these routes and discounts to the privileged class

[Abbas Ali]

On December 15, PIA ATR 42-500 aircraft registration AP-BHH returned to service when it left Islamabad as flight PK631 to Sukkur.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhh

Abbas

[contrails]

Let other private operators also operate these so called loss making routes once PIA is sold new owners will close all these routes and discounts to the privileged class

Other private operators do not want to bear the losses incurred by operating these routes. I guess paying the fines of not operating them is far more economical.

[Abbas Ali]

https://urdu.samaa.tv/208739714

PIA Gilgit flights suspended till February 8 due to technical problem experienced by one of two active ATR 42-500 aircraft in airline's fleet.

Recently two active PIA ATR 42-500 aircraft registrations:

AP-BHH
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhh

AP-BHI
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhi

Abbas

[faisal-777]

Let other private operators also operate these so called loss making routes once PIA is sold new owners will close all these routes and discounts to the privileged class

Other private operators do not want to bear the losses incurred by operating these routes. I guess paying the fines of not operating them is far more economical.

and for that they need turboprop aircraft, why would they acquire them just to operate this one route where weather causes frequent issues.

[Abbas Ali]

Apparently PIA ATR 42-500 aircraft registration AP-BHI is grounded.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhi

PIA ATR 42-500 aircraft registration AP-BHH is active and performed flights between Karachi and Sukkur on February 5.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhh

Abbas

[Karachi Aviator]

Apparently PIA ATR 42-500 aircraft registration AP-BHI is grounded.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhi

PIA ATR 42-500 aircraft registration AP-BHH is active and performed flights between Karachi and Sukkur on February 5.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhh

Abbas

Does anyone know what happened to AP-BHN?? seems like a mystery aircraft, it didn't crash neither any ground accident

[raihans]

Apparently PIA ATR 42-500 aircraft registration AP-BHI is grounded.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhi

PIA ATR 42-500 aircraft registration AP-BHH is active and performed flights between Karachi and Sukkur on February 5.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhh

Abbas

Does anyone know what happened to AP-BHN?? seems like a mystery aircraft, it didn't crash neither any ground accident

AP-BHN retired in 2015, most probably cannibalized to keep other airframes active/air worthy
https://aparm.net/ap-baa_ap-bzz/ap-bha_ ... ap-bhn.htm

[Abbas Ali]

On February 8, PIA ATR 42-500 aircraft registration AP-BHH resumed performing flights between Islamabad and Gilgit.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhh.

Flights operated on February 8 include:

Islamabad to Gilgit PK601
Islamabad to Gilgit PK605

Gilgit to Islamabad PK602
Gilgit to Islamabad PK606


Source: islamabadairport.com.pk


Source: islamabadairport.com.pk

Sister ship AP-BHI apparently remains on the ground.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhi

Abbas

[contrails]

Let other private operators also operate these so called loss making routes once PIA is sold new owners will close all these routes and discounts to the privileged class

Other private operators do not want to bear the losses incurred by operating these routes. I guess paying the fines of not operating them is far more economical.

and for that they need turboprop aircraft, why would they acquire them just to operate this one route where weather causes frequent issues.

True. This has always been an issue in PIA, who was forced to serve these socioeconomic routes.

[Amaad Lone]

I always wondered why PIA could not use the leased ATR72s for routes to Gilgit, Chitral and Skardu, rather then putting them in storage.

[Abbas Ali]

Apparently, PIA ATR 42-500 aircraft registration AP-BHI returned to duty on February 16.

The aircraft performed flights on sectors including:

Karachi-Gwadar
Karachi-Sukkur

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhi

Abbas