PIA Boeing 777-240ER (AP-BHX) completes first test flight

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:10 am

PIA's brand new Boeing 777-240ER (c/n 35296, l/n 613 - registration AP-BHX), leased from ILFC, has completed first test on February 23, 2007 at Paine Field, Everett, Washington, USA. The aircraft took off with call sign ' BOEING 449' and was declared air worthy at 2157hours local time - Info Source: www.microvoltradio.com.

Here's photo link:

Link 1: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id ... 523&size=o

Related Topic: PIA to lease a brand new Boeing 777-200ER

samee380 · Post by **samee380** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:36 pm

some more photos at below links:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id ... 351&size=o

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id ... 353&size=o

in the below link is there some kind of bar at the end of the aircraft as the PAX windows are covered up at the end of the aircarft?

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id ... 355&size=o

i hope PIA can start to paint they other 777LR and -ER's in this livery absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!

PK777 · Post by **PK777** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:37 am

Wow! Looking really beautiful! That tail reallly suits the B777.

AP-BGJ · Post by **AP-BGJ** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:05 am

cool beautiful!!!! now only one 777-300 is left for PIA

SENIOR · Post by **SENIOR** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:58 pm

It looks like there's a delivery date set for AP-BHX on 09MAR07 from Seattle for MAN (1000/1300) then onto ISB and KHI as a revenue flight.

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:23 pm

Thank you SENIOR and hope to see some photos of the aircraft from Manchester

Amaad Lone · Post by **Amaad Lone** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:14 am

Just wondering how many captains and first officers are now on the 777 fleet with PIA???

Witha fleet of eight 777s, flying a busy schedule I would say atleast 12 pilots (six sets) per aircraft, or around 96 in total.

Also the 747 fleet of eight, any captains moved from the 747s to the 777s yet??

Can PIA sustain atleast six 747s after taking out the retired 747s pilots and the transfers to the 777s??

A captain on the A310 fleet said that the A310 cockpit crew is overworked with most averaging 75 hours per month.