Tonight's Lahore-Glasgow Service is cancelled

GLA777 · Post by **GLA777** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:30 pm

Tonights PIA flight from Lahore to Glasgow is cancelled. Does anyone know why? Is it to do with the ban?

CombiFan · Post by **CombiFan** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:35 pm

Yes, only Brimingham and Glasgow, in UK, have been effected by the ban, however BHX will face no inturruption of schedule as it will be served with 777. GLA psgrs will be interlined thru MAN, BHX and LHR.

GLA777 · Post by **GLA777** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:40 pm

CombiFan wrote:Yes, only Brimingham and Glasgow, in UK, have been effected by the ban, however BHX will face no inturruption of schedule as it will be served with 777. GLA psgrs will be interlined thru MAN, BHX and LHR.

So will PIA aircraft continue to fly to Glasgow or will it now be a connecton to Glasgow with some domestic service in the UK?

CombiFan · Post by **CombiFan** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:00 pm

This just in: Glasgow to be combined with Frankfurt. B777 Fri and Mon.

smarties · Post by **smarties** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:35 pm

All PIA flights to and from the UK will most likely be routed via Europe.

They should route the LHR-KHI (PK788) services via FRA (LHR-FRA-KHI)on WED and SUN, and suspend the FRI service for the moment.

pkjet · Post by **pkjet** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:33 pm

I mean the combis ok, but A310s ???? So many airlines the world over operate the 310 on both passenger and cargo services.

How in God's name are PIA's A310s a risk ???

m2hassan · Post by **m2hassan** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:20 pm

reading off airliners.net forums .. I was wondering if only one 777: BGL , is going to be enough to mantain the 3 times weekly service to Frankfurt?... its been mentioned above tht Glasgow will be re-routed through Frankfurt twice weekly.. where else are they gonna merge flights ? Paris .. Amersterdam ? i know 777 operates these 2 destination during the summer so what is it all year round now ? what abt Milan , Rome and Athens ? They cant possibly send the 777 to these places and then fly them onwards to Britain!.. its like throwing away ur market share to Emirates , Qatar and Etihad.

Jacobin777 · Post by **Jacobin777** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:41 pm

PK's inept management should be thrown behind bars for gross mismanagement and the massive amount of embarrassment caused to our once great national flag carrier..

...the age of the plane has nothing to do with being banned, a brand new B777 or A330 can be banned also if maitenance is not kept up to a minimum set of standards....

that being said.. does anyone know how will this situation affect flights to the USofA..particularily ORD?

zerbaer · Post by **zerbaer** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:36 pm

PK's inept management should be thrown behind bars for gross mismanagement and the massive amount of embarrassment caused to our once great national flag carrier..

...the age of the plane has nothing to do with being banned, a brand new B777 or A330 can be banned also if maitenance is not kept up to a minimum set of standards....

that being said.. does anyone know how will this situation affect flights to the USofA..particularily ORD?

Criminals belong behind bars. Forget the embarrassments, they are too many, generated for the nation who also somehow end up with the odious liabilities.

It is heartening that the age, type & model are recognized as not the cause.

Should Pakistan's (CAA) category be down graded to 2 as a consequence of CAA failure to oversee the compliance of regs, imagine what that will do.

FAA may not be far behind EU.

FAA International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA)
The FAAÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s IASA program focuses on a country's ability, not the individual air carrier, to adhere to international standards and recommended practices for aircraft operations and maintenance established by the United Nation's technical agency for aviation, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). These audits are limited to civil aviation authorities of countries with existing air carrier service to the U.S., or authorities of foreign air carriers wanting to start services to the U.S.

smarties · Post by **smarties** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:53 pm

PK773/774 was also cancelled to London STN today. Tommororw (sun) PK787 to LHR is delayed by 5 hours as well.

GLAGAZ · Post by **GLAGAZ** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:04 am

So can anyone confirm that a 777 will be in Glasgow on Monday and Friday? If so, what times?

Gaz

CoyBoy · Post by **CoyBoy** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:13 am

A friend of mine travelled by PIA to Chicago two days back her flight was to leave at 6.30 am but got delayed till 12.40pm, was it due to all this.

GLA777 · Post by **GLA777** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:27 pm

Tonights flight came in as normal but with a 777

Looks like the spotters were out in fource, seen loads of pics already.

scot 777 · Post by **scot 777** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:15 am

Missed that one! Can anybody confirm that Glasgow will be Wed & Fri?

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:50 am

scot 777 wrote:Missed that one! Can anybody confirm that Glasgow will be Wed & Fri?

Yes, it's flight number PK-777/778 on Wednesday & Friday non-stop to Glasgow from Lahore with Boeing 777.

It can be found in PIA's revised flight schedule posted in following topic:

Topic: PIA issues revised flight schedule for Europe & USA