PIA Invites Bids for In-flight Catering Service at Airports of London, Manchester and Birmingham

[Abbas Ali]

PIA Boeing 777s at London Heathrow Airport

PIA invites tenders from in-flight catering service providers having considerable experience in airline catering.

Weekly PIA meal requirement:

London

Station: London (LHR)
Number of Meals Per Week: 7,500 (+/- 15%)
Last Date of Tender Submission: March 11, 2025

Manchester

Station: Manchester (MAN)
Number of Meals Per Week: 6,500 (+/- 15%)
Last Date of Tender Submission: March 13, 2025

Birmingham

Station: Birmingham (BHX)
Number of Meals Per Week: 2,200 (+/- 15%)
Last Date of Tender Submission: March 12, 2025

Tender notice in January 30 newspaper:



Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

PIA planning to operate 22 weekly Boeing 777 flights from UK to Pakistan.

London

10 x weekly Boeing 777

Manchester

9 x weekly Boeing 777

Birmingham

3 x weekly Boeing 777

Abbas

[Amaad Lone]

They will need 3 to 4 777s for this operation. All ten 777s should be in service for UK, Europe and Saudi routes.

I am guessing all but the two grounded AP-BHW and BGL will be back in service.

[Karachi Aviator]

PIA should manage the flights in such a manner that each 777 can fly back to Pakistan the same day (or in within 24 hours). If the ground time is managed well, each 777 should be able to do 14 flights a week between Pakistan and the UK (7 each way). Karachi-London flights can be used for rotations as the aircrafts will need to return back to base once in a while rather than operating a domestic flight or a saudi flight. With hajj operations nearing and UK being restored (hopefully) as well, PIA will most probably resume London later on and start with Manchester and Birmingham first if the 777 fleet isn't restored.

[Abbas Ali]

Efforts are also underway to activate PIA slots at London Heathrow Airport with plan to resume flight operations from airport's Terminal 4.

PIA taking steps to start flights to London and Manchester by mid-March.

https://arynews.tv/pakistan-begins-prep ... k-flights/

[planefan2003]

Efforts are also underway to activate PIA slots at London Heathrow Airport with plan to resume flight operations from airport's Terminal 4.

PIA taking steps to start flights to London and Manchester by mid-March.

https://arynews.tv/pakistan-begins-prep ... k-flights/

Interesting that they will now operate out of T4, why can’t they just return to T3?

[AviationLover2020]

Efforts are also underway to activate PIA slots at London Heathrow Airport with plan to resume flight operations from airport's Terminal 4.

PIA taking steps to start flights to London and Manchester by mid-March.

https://arynews.tv/pakistan-begins-prep ... k-flights/

If PIA does switch terminals, this would be a historic change, right? Hasn’t PIA always flown from Terminal 3? It certainly has as far as I can remember…

[Badar42]

PIA planning to operate 22 weekly Boeing 777 flights from UK to Pakistan.

London

10 x weekly Boeing 777

Manchester

9 x weekly Boeing 777

Birmingham

3 x weekly Boeing 777

Abbas

PIA operated this frequency before the ban when they had most 777s operational for UK and EU routes. It'll get difficult to achieve this if reports of only three 777s currently allowed to operate in EU,but fingers crossed.As matter of fact there is enough demand to fly twice daily man-isb and daily bhx- isb