Meeting in March in UK Expected to Allow Resumption of Pakistani Airlines Flights to/from UK

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Re: Meeting in March in UK Expected to Allow Resumption of Pakistani Airlines Flights to/from UK

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Abbas Ali wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:00 pm Image
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So far, UK has not officially informed Pakistan CAA about the decision on Pakistani airlines, according to DG Pakistan CAA.

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After EASA ban removal, PIA expecting good news from UK also, according to airline's spokesperson.

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What does this mean? They are not returning to uk
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Eyesonpia wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 6:09 pm
Abbas Ali wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:00 pm Image
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So far, UK has not officially informed Pakistan CAA about the decision on Pakistani airlines, according to DG Pakistan CAA.

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After EASA ban removal, PIA expecting good news from UK also, according to airline's spokesperson.

Abbas
What does this mean? They are not returning to uk
99% not returning to UK yet, don’t worry you should be happy atleast no one including you or your family is putting their life at risk
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ME3 lobby at its best.

In USA, recently there have been so many accidents and response from EU/UK has been "crickets". When PIA restarted Paris, there was a significant decrease in fares. If UK gets started, it will be a bog loss for ME3
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in my opinion the time has come for PIA to spread its wings in Europe, strangely they have not yet started routes such as Oslo, Milan, Barcelona, first of all restore these perhaps from the main stations of Pakistan Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi and then start Frankfurt and Amsterdam, in Africa instead they could start flights to Egypt which can also transport goods and Kenya, Australia could be another country to keep an eye on and finally expand into Indochina with Thailand, and start flights to Seoul and Tokyo, in my opinion this is advantageous for both passengers and the company to earn and bring back into the air the aircraft that have been grounded for years.
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Typical Pakistani mindset & attitude blaming own incompetence on others is your airline flawless?

Management's Incompetence mentioned below not caused by ME3:
2020 Crash (No check & balance before this on Pilots landing approach, no check on previous near misses)
No Flight approach monitoring system previously
Crew slipping out in Canada
Crew carrying iphones & other stuff illegally
Fleet mismanagement
Failing to procure parts
One one the worst maintained widebody fleet (EU flights only allowed on BGK due to this reason)
Recent incidents :
A320 landing on wrong runway
A320 MLG detached during takeoff
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Re: Meeting in March in UK Expected to Allow Resumption of Pakistani Airlines Flights to/from UK

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Usman123 wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:41 pm Typical Pakistani mindset & attitude blaming own incompetence on others is your airline flawless?

Management's Incompetence mentioned below not caused by ME3:
2020 Crash (No check & balance before this on Pilots landing approach, no check on previous near misses)
No Flight approach monitoring system previously
Crew slipping out in Canada
Crew carrying iphones & other stuff illegally
Fleet mismanagement
Failing to procure parts
One one the worst maintained widebody fleet (EU flights only allowed on BGK due to this reason)
Recent incidents :
A320 landing on wrong runway
A320 MLG detached during takeoff
Totally agree, as if everything was not enough today it seems that ap-blb has some problems since he is not flying and the flights assigned to him are being carried out with different planes, it is a disgrace to see that only half of the company's planes are already flying, and even those have something to tell us every week.
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Re: Meeting in March in UK Expected to Allow Resumption of Pakistani Airlines Flights to/from UK

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t-rehman wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:19 pm ME3 lobby at its best.

In USA, recently there have been so many accidents and response from EU/UK has been "crickets". When PIA restarted Paris, there was a significant decrease in fares. If UK gets started, it will be a bog loss for ME3
What bearing would the ME3 have on the UK DFT?
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t-rehman wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:19 pm ME3 lobby at its best.

In USA, recently there have been so many accidents and response from EU/UK has been "crickets". When PIA restarted Paris, there was a significant decrease in fares. If UK gets started, it will be a bog loss for ME3
Don't worry, at this time we should focus on PIA's 2nd privatization. The 3 companies that are participating in PIA's Privatization are already scaring the ME3 group.

PIA flying to Paris is enough for now, lets slowly get PIA to fly to Germany, Italy and Norway.
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PIA330 wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:23 pm
t-rehman wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:19 pm ME3 lobby at its best.

In USA, recently there have been so many accidents and response from EU/UK has been "crickets". When PIA restarted Paris, there was a significant decrease in fares. If UK gets started, it will be a bog loss for ME3
Don't worry, at this time we should focus on PIA's 2nd privatization. The 3 companies that are participating in PIA's Privatization are already scaring the ME3 group.

PIA flying to Paris is enough for now, lets slowly get PIA to fly to Germany, Italy and Norway.
That will take some time as only AP-BGK is allowed to operate EU routes.
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Re: Meeting in March in UK Expected to Allow Resumption of Pakistani Airlines Flights to/from UK

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planefan2003 wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:26 pm
PIA330 wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:23 pm
t-rehman wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:19 pm ME3 lobby at its best.

In USA, recently there have been so many accidents and response from EU/UK has been "crickets". When PIA restarted Paris, there was a significant decrease in fares. If UK gets started, it will be a bog loss for ME3
Don't worry, at this time we should focus on PIA's 2nd privatization. The 3 companies that are participating in PIA's Privatization are already scaring the ME3 group.

PIA flying to Paris is enough for now, lets slowly get PIA to fly to Germany, Italy and Norway.
That will take some time as only AP-BGK is allowed to operate EU routes.
At least the Paris flight is enough, and can help the privatisation process.
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Re: Meeting in March in UK Expected to Allow Resumption of Pakistani Airlines Flights to/from UK

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The decision definitely makes no sense, and smells of politics behind, probably by BA.
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faisal-777 wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 6:35 am The decision definitely makes no sense, and smells of politics behind, probably by BA.
It makes plenty of sense. They saw yet another outrageous incident (wheel fell off the plane) and they sent the delegation packing \:D/
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faisal-777 wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 6:35 am The decision definitely makes no sense, and smells of politics behind, probably by BA.
There literally is no decision as of now idk what this particular channel of this forum even on about.Where does the UK CAA has issued a formal notice to CAA or PIA or to the press where they mention the ban is gonna go on or not for all we know there hasn't been any result gone out regarding the ban's review of not only PIA all the mentioned Airlines of Pakistan.All we are doing is talking our media's WORD (we all know what good that is) over nothing because that's the only information we have and we can act on.
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Re: Meeting in March in UK Expected to Allow Resumption of Pakistani Airlines Flights to/from UK

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I don't understand the glee with which some people are welcoming this decision. I've been seeing A LOT of airlines having issues like this in the West, but they haven't had their permissions revoked. I do think that there's a strong lobby preventing PIA from returning to the UK. It just doesn't make any sense for it to be allowed into the EU and not the UK. Zilch!

I used to travel quite frequently with PIA from 2016-18 and the flight was always comfortable. The best part was that you'd get to London in the blink of an eye. And it was such a good feeling to see three PIA planes together at Heathrow. I really hope those times return. I think the airline deserves a chance.