Now Fly Non-Stop - PIA ad

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:17 am

PIA ad in todayÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s (March 3, 2006) newspaper:

Waqar747 · Post by **Waqar747** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:36 am

You'd think they'd at least make that effort of posting a real 772LR photo in the ad, instead of this 772ER

Oh well, the ad looks nice otherwise.

flyingsystem · Post by **flyingsystem** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:41 am

Nobody will see the difference!!!!

smarties · Post by **smarties** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:11 pm

flyingsystem wrote:Nobody will see the difference!!!!

We see the difference! They need a better marketing team.

CoyBoy · Post by **CoyBoy** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:24 pm

Yes thats a pathetic excuse, if another airline had been the first operator of this aircraft brining in a new era into aviation and creating history, they would have doen amazing stuff to promote it.

kamalla · Post by **kamalla** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:05 pm

The add mentions "Tuesday, Friday and Sunday" as days of ops. for this flight. Have they changed the Thursday fequency of KHI-YYZ to Sunday?
Since as long as I can remember the flights hae been (KHI-LHE-MAN-YYZ) on Tuesdays, (KHI-ISB-MAN-YYZ) on Fridays and recently they started (KHI-MAN-YYZ) on Thursdays.

If so, thats great! I was really hoping for a weekend flight so I can got spotting once in a while!!

kamalla · Post by **kamalla** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:09 pm

Well, I just checked PIA's schedule on their website and it does specify the KHI-YYZ flight for this Sunday, Mar. 5th.
I guess they have changed the flight to Sundays.
I will definitely try to go and catch the LR this Sunday and get some pics (I assume that it will be operated?). Hopefully the weather will co-operate and it won't be (-20 C)!!!

AP-BGL · Post by **AP-BGL** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:35 pm

CoyBoy wrote:if another airline had been the first operator of this aircraft brining in a new era into aviation and creating history, they would have doen amazing stuff to promote it

Totally agreed with you on this, PIA surely lacks behind in Marketing dept. Take an example of Singapore Airlines, they wrote something very attractive on their new A380 which surely attracts customers, "First to Fly A380", I dont know what happened to PIA they should have given some unique words/design to a/c so the whole world might know that WE ARE ALSO THE FIRST ONE TO FLY B777LR.

PK777 · Post by **PK777** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:02 pm

CoyBoy wrote:Yes thats a pathetic excuse, if another airline had been the first operator of this aircraft brining in a new era into aviation and creating history, they would have doen amazing stuff to promote it.

True, when it comes to advertising GLOBALLY, even on their website it is well below standards..if EK got this aircraft we would have seen many details and information about it (just take a look at the A345 section they have you will see).

Apparently, when PK started serving Houston the marketing was so crap that even today some people still dont even know PIA has started serving Houston

smarties · Post by **smarties** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:39 pm

Yeah absolutely. When i was in Karachi, i knew alot of people who are going to YYZ this summer and they were booked to go on EY. I told them about the new non-stop services and about 6 of them changed their flights to PIA, i was actually marketing for PIA! Hahaha!

I mean in KHI Emirates is being advertised on billboards, and i could not see PIA being advertised anywhere. This was their golden chance to promote the airline on a global level with the induction of the new 777LR. They did not even market it in their own country, and many people did even know that the airline had ordered this airliner. They should have plastered nonstopservices and this new aircraft all over Pakistan!

ord · Post by **ord** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:52 pm

smarties wrote: I mean in KHI Emirates is being advertised on billboards, and i could not see PIA being advertised anywhere. This was their golden chance to promote the airline on a global level with the induction of the new 777LR. They did not even market it in their own country, and many people did even know that the airline had ordered this airliner. They should have plastered nonstopservices and this new aircraft all over Pakistan!

I suspect that most of the YYZ traffic originates in Canada and travels to PAK and vice-versa. Therefore, they are probably heavily marketing the new service in NA ethnic publications such as Pakistan Link.

flyingsystem · Post by **flyingsystem** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:27 pm

PK777 wrote:
CoyBoy wrote:Yes thats a pathetic excuse, if another airline had been the first operator of this aircraft brining in a new era into aviation and creating history, they would have doen amazing stuff to promote it.
True, when it comes to advertising GLOBALLY, even on their website it is well below standards..if EK got this aircraft we would have seen many details and information about it (just take a look at the A345 section they have you will see).

Apparently, when PK started serving Houston the marketing was so crap that even today some people still dont even know PIA has started serving Houston

Look simply at this: Singapore created a special website for the A380

!
http://www.a380.singaporeair.com/home.html

sadiqhassan · Post by **sadiqhassan** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:11 pm

do you mind me asking which newspaper this is from? I think the add looks quite nice. Shame that people in Karachi (and here in Toronto) seem to have no idea about these new services

Cheers

smarties · Post by **smarties** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:54 pm

sadiqhassan wrote:do you mind me asking which newspaper this is from?

Cheers

I think it is from the DAWN newspaper.

sadiqhassan · Post by **sadiqhassan** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:45 pm

smarties wrote:
sadiqhassan wrote:do you mind me asking which newspaper this is from?

Cheers
I think it is from the DAWN newspaper.

Thanks. I'll try and contact Karachi to get myself a copy

Cheers