On August 20, Air Sial began operating flights between Jeddah and Multan. The airline will operate five weekly flights between Multan and Jeddah with Airbus A320.
Air Sial Airbus A320 aircraft registration AP-BOA departed from Jeddah at 6:54 AM as inaugural flight PF723 to Multan where it arrived at 1:15 PM. Flight completed in 4 hours & 21 minutes
On August 20, Air Sial Airbus A320 aircraft registration AP-BOA departed from Multan at 3:22 PM as inaugural flight PF722 to Jeddah where it arrived at 5:36 PM. Flight completed in 4 hours & 14 minutes
Its got a much larger passenger load than any base in Pakistan. Add more flights and they will just keep filling up.
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Multan have definitely outgrown Sialkot , Faisalabad & Quetta in terms of passenger load. It's slightly behind peshawar to grab the coveted title of 4th busiest airport in Pakistan after obvious big 3
I am traveling to/from MUX for quite sometime now with SV. Arriving from EU, MUX connection time is poor so i find flights being cheaper than big 3 airports for Saudia -SV and MUX being hometown and the fact I have SAUDI visa- this all fits well for me. I have to say SV flights are always full and travel in/out of MUX is very chaotic due to illiterates and first time (mostly) Umrah and labor travel from across the south region so despite me being SkyTeam elite plus member, there is no concept of Priority Check in or boarding and as soon as the boarding is announced, a flood of people runs to gate and chokes it (well its same in rest of the country as well). last December When I asked for priority rights, I with my family was upgraded to business class at check in which was totally empty.
Latest I arrived MUX on 3rd AUG and the flight was completely empty. probably 20% load or less. Reason being last Hajj flight to MUX was on 2nd AUG so HUJJ is over and Umrah is yet to begin and meanwhile MUX has no one to travel to/from. This also signifies the fact that MUX is very busy but only due to HAJJ/UMRAH passengers otherwise there isn't really a demand for holidays and hardly any for VRF.
I am arriving MUX again on 4 SEP and departing again on 5 SEP and due to the fact that Umrah has picked up, I am expecting huge crowds both inside and outside the airport.
Ahad khan wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2023 7:14 am
Its got a much larger passenger load than any base in Pakistan. Add more flights and they will just keep filling up.
MUX is the single major airport in south punjab. The siraiki diaspora in ME is of large number. The passengers from SKT and LYP can easily use LHE.