PIA issues revised flight schedule for Europe & USA

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:18 am

In today's (March 6, 2007) newspaper:

On the Net: PIA

hasan saleem · Post by **hasan saleem** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:32 am

We see Istanbul- New York, as anticipated

Equipment used on this route would be ?

sadiqhassan · Post by **sadiqhassan** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:42 am

they did not imply that Toronto is part of the USA

kamalla · Post by **kamalla** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:40 am

sadiqhassan wrote:they did not imply that Toronto is part of the USA

no kidding!

I also don't see the Sunday KHI-YYZ flight on the updated schedule.

SalamPaks · Post by **SalamPaks** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:59 pm

kamalla wrote:
sadiqhassan wrote:they did not imply that Toronto is part of the USA
no kidding!

I also don't see the Sunday KHI-YYZ flight on the updated schedule.

That's why it's an updated scedule

Actually, it's not a bad schedule under the circumstances (i.e., only 777's available, massive mismanagement, etc)

Amaad Lone · Post by **Amaad Lone** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:37 pm

Looks like flights to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Rome, Milan and Athens have been cancelled.

Any idea if this schedule is going to be amended soon???

Twice a week Lahore-Frankfurt-Amsterdam-Lahore flight should have been retained.

Twice a week Lahore-Rome-Milan-Lahore flight would be good, serving both the Italian cities with one flight.

Toronto should have been switched over to the twice a week 747s via Istanbul, allowing PIA to operate the four extra european flights from the 777 fleet.

Another option being, PIA can use its wet-leased A321s to operate the following flights.

Islamabad-Athens-Rome-Athens-Islamabad
Lahore-Athens-Rome-Athens-Lahore

Islamabad-Athens-Milan-Athens-Islamabad
Lahore-Athens-Milan-Athens-Lahore

While the 777 can go to Frankfurt and Amsterdam

cheetah · Post by **cheetah** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:16 pm

Combi's are back in New York

smarties · Post by **smarties** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:55 pm

How long will it be before the 747's are also banned from the US?

behramjee · Post by **behramjee** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:31 am

Though this may not be totally true but what the hell...

Amaad,

It seems that PIA followed your JFK via IST suggestion...v sensible indeed

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PIA has 5th freedom rights on IST-JFK-IST and for the 4 weeks that theyre flying the route, they should introduce attractive fares valid for a 2 week period for a round trip journey between IST-JFK-IST to get as high a load as possible.

And it seems that they followed my suggestion by suspending flights to all EU destinations that saw light loads and were unprofitable

EU cities suspended are FCO-AMS-FRA-ATH-MXP and BHX has been reduced from 5 weekly to 3 weekly A 310 service from ISB.

hasan saleem · Post by **hasan saleem** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:48 am

Does the restriction apply to moscow also ?

I think they dont, Russia isnt a member of EU.

so they prob will keep flying 310 on the karachi-dubai-moscow route

sadiqhassan · Post by **sadiqhassan** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:45 pm

behramjee wrote:
PIA has 5th freedom rights on IST-JFK-IST and for the 4 weeks that theyre flying the route, they should introduce attractive fares valid for a 2 week period for a round trip journey between IST-JFK-IST to get as high a load as possible.

I was hoping they would do that, but KHI-IST and IST-USA aren't showing up on schedules (for me at least.)

AP-BGL · Post by **AP-BGL** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:58 pm

hasan saleem wrote:Does the restriction apply to moscow also ?

I think they dont, Russia isnt a member of EU.

so they prob will keep flying 310 on the karachi-dubai-moscow route

Karachi-Dubai-Moscow is done by 777, correct me if I am wrong.

FKhan722 · Post by **FKhan722** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:09 am

smarties wrote:How long will it be before the 747's are also banned from the US?

About 45 minutes after the first one lands

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:31 pm

PIA revised flight schedule (Effective March 6-14, 2007) now also available on PIA website at following link.

Link: http://www.piac.com.pk/Schedule/pia-Schedule.asp