PIA Istanbul Flights Suspended

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PIA Istanbul Flights Suspended

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According to news report on following link, PIA flights to Istanbul are suspended due to payments issue. Flights to remain suspended till October 13.

https://arynews.tv/pia-suspends-flight- ... nt-issues/

On November 15, 2022, PIA started six weekly flights to Istanbul from Pakistan (4 weekly from Islamabad and 2 weekly from Lahore)

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From Istanbul, connecting flights to Europe and USA were offered to PIA passengers under a partnership between the two airlines.

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Re: PIA Istanbul Flights Suspended

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According to a PIA spokesperson, the decision was taken due to a lack of travelers for onward journeys from Turkiye. "We have not been receiving inventory from Turkiye; therefore, the flights were stopped until October 13."

https://www.dawn.com/news/1862750
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Re: PIA Istanbul Flights Suspended

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Abbas Ali wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2024 10:19 am According to a PIA spokesperson, the decision was taken due to a lack of travelers for onward journeys from Turkiye.
Of course, why would someone choose PIA when they already have an option to choose TK. PIA should switch from IST to SAW and codeshare with Pegasus which doesn't fly to LHE and ISB.
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Re: PIA Istanbul Flights Suspended

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Turkish is flying 2x four days a week from ISB and LHE. Perhaps, PIA has rented her IST flight rights to Turkish as well because PK is code sharing on all 11 Turkish flights both from LHE and ISB. For KHI, it remains 1x daily.
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Re: PIA Istanbul Flights Suspended

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Seems karachi slots have all been sold out to Qatar, Etihad, Emirates