Top 10 foreign airlines operating in Pakistan

[Ahad khan]

Here is the list of top 10 foreign carriers in terms of passenger carriage in & out of Pakistan

1)-Emirates = 15 Lakh
2)-Qatar = 12 Lakh
3)-Saudi = 9 Lakh
4)-flydubai = 7 Lakh
5)-Air arabia = 6 Lakh
7)-Turkish = 5 Lakh
8 -Etihad = 4 Lakh
9)-Gulf air = 4 Lakh
10)-Oman = 2 Lakh

[yasir_nk]

Shame for PIA because of Emirates, Emirates airlines was established in 1985 by leasing 3 PIA's B 737-300, after 3 years Emirates returned all air crafts to PIA and now Emirates is one of the largest airlines of the world and PIA still same position as 1985.

[Amaad Lone]

Shame for PIA because of Emirates, Emirates airlines was established in 1985 by leasing 3 PIA's B 737-300, after 3 years Emirates returned all air crafts to PIA and now Emirates is one of the largest airlines of the world and PIA still same position as 1985.

First of all it was one A300 and one 737.

Second I think you should mean shame on the rulers of Pakistan that destroyed PIA.

Golden Handshake schemes
In 1988 Benazir rehiring thousands of PIA employees fired during Zia days and giving them back pay and then retirement benefits.
PIA Premier by Nawaz Sharif causing a loss of 15 million dollars.

Shame on the rulers who destroyed PIA for corruption and self motivated reasons.

[Imran Ayub]

Shame for PIA because of Emirates, Emirates airlines was established in 1985 by leasing 3 PIA's B 737-300, after 3 years Emirates returned all air crafts to PIA and now Emirates is one of the largest airlines of the world and PIA still same position as 1985.

I think PIA was in a better situation in 1985 compare to now. They were innovative and had a good reputation at that time.

[Ahad khan]

Definitely... actually PIA was competing head on with Gulf air (at that time Oman , UAE , Qatar & Bahrain had one airline viz , gulf).

Soo PIA launched emirates in retaliation to fail its rival

[Amaad Lone]

Soo PIA launched emirates in retaliation to fail its rival

PIA did not launch Emirates. It was launched by the Dubai government. Pakistanis need to get over this myth that PIA created Emirates.

Emirates leased two planes for 1 year from PIA and after that it got its own planes.

Also the vision of the Dubai Emir was to make Dubai a progressive city, in Pakistan our rulers are more worried about the new phases of DHA.

[Ahad khan]

Soo PIA launched emirates in retaliation to fail its rival

PIA did not launch Emirates. It was launched by the Dubai government. Pakistanis need to get over this myth that PIA created Emirates.

Emirates leased two planes for 1 year from PIA and after that it got its own planes.

Also the vision of the Dubai Emir was to make Dubai a progressive city, in Pakistan our rulers are more worried about the new phases of DHA.

Partially correct but if u study power politics & aviation dynamics of 1980'd in middle east & south asia region then you would understand the might of Gulf air and why PIA was hell bent to destroy its hegemony from gulf market !!

[ammad]

Here is the list of top 10 foreign carriers in terms of passenger carriage in & out of Pakistan

1)-Emirates = 15 Lakh
2)-Qatar = 12 Lakh
3)-Saudi = 9 Lakh
4)-flydubai = 7 Lakh
5)-Air arabia = 6 Lakh
7)-Turkish = 5 Lakh
8 -Etihad = 4 Lakh
9)-Gulf air = 4 Lakh
10)-Oman = 2 Lakh

Interesting Stats, do you know about PIA as well, what is the authenticity of these numbers, is this derive from Immigration data?

[Ahad khan]

Here is the list of top 10 foreign carriers in terms of passenger carriage in & out of Pakistan

1)-Emirates = 15 Lakh
2)-Qatar = 12 Lakh
3)-Saudi = 9 Lakh
4)-flydubai = 7 Lakh
5)-Air arabia = 6 Lakh
7)-Turkish = 5 Lakh
8 -Etihad = 4 Lakh
9)-Gulf air = 4 Lakh
10)-Oman = 2 Lakh

Interesting Stats, do you know about PIA as well, what is the authenticity of these numbers, is this derive from Immigration data?

Pakistani airlines stats on int'l sector

PIA = 23 Lakh
Air blue = 9.5 Lakh
Serene air = 3.5 Lakh
Air Sial = un-known

Source : CAA

[ammad]

So total international pax are:

6.4 Million Foreign carriers.
3.6 Million PK based carriers.

Total 10 million Pax travels internationally. Stats looks consistent.

Poor PIA is handling just 23% of Pakistani International PAX. What an absolute failure.

[bnm]

Every govt has its own share in the destruction of PIA and the last blow was in niazi govt to spread the fake license news world wide

[TheAnalyst]

Well, our government doesn't want progress, instead they used PIA as a money machine. I remember reading an interview in Aviation magazine with the CEO of PIA in 2016 who said that there was not even money to carry our repairs. I think such things say enough about the state of this airline. Other airlines have a better safety record and far better image.