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Pakistan International Airlines Information

Pakistan International Airlines History

Pakistan International Airlines Corporation, known as PIA, is a flag carrier airline of Pakistan. And it is 31st biggest airline in Asia. It operates planned services to 36 worldwide destinations and 23 domestic destinations in 25 countries across North America, Europe and Asia. And its focal bases are Islamabad/Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.

Secondary bases of the airlines include Multan, Faisalabad, Peshawar, Sialkot and Quetta, from which it attaches metropolitan cities with main bases, Far East and Middle East. Airline is owned through Govt of Pakistan (87%) and additional shareholders (13%). It utilized 18,043 people as of May 2008.

'Pakistan International Airlines' can draw its opening to days when Pakistan was not a self-sovereign state. And in the year of 1946 Muhammad Ali Jinnah realized necessitate for an airline network for form country and imploring facilitate of an entrepreneur Mirza Ahmad Ispahani to expand a flag carrier for the state. In the mean time, airline named 'Orient Airways' which was registered in Calcutta. It was created on 23rd October 1946. And in the month of February 1947, airline purchased 3 DC-3 airplanes from the corporation in Texas. After few month airline achieved the license to fly. And services were begun in June from Kolkata and Sittwe and Yangon. Orient Airways started respite flights to new state and, afterward, it stirred its operations to Karachi, at where it started its flights to Dhaka on 7th June, 1954. Additionally, the first 2 domestic routes in Pakistan were launched, from Karachi to Lahore to Peshawar, and from Karachi to Quetta to Lahore.

On 11th march 1955, Orient Airways combined with government's projected airline, becoming the 'Pakistan International Airlines Corporation'. For the period of same year airline released its worldwide service, from Karachi to London Heathrow Airport with Leonardo da Vinci Airport and Cairo International Airport in Fiumicino, Italy, applying Lockheed L-1049C Super Assemblage.  In May 1956, Pakistan International Airlines ordered 2 Super Lockheed Constellations and five Vickers Viscounts 815. In 1959, Malik Nur Khan was named as a Managing Director.

Pakistan International Airlines Destinations

Pakistan International Airlines provides 36 worldwide destinations and 23 domestic destinations in 25 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia as of September 2009 from its dwelling bases of Peshawar, Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore.

Pakistan International Airlines Incidents and Accidents

As it started services, 7 Pakistan International Airlines Flights have stopped. Pakistan International Airlines has own record of 5.00 losses per million flights

• On 18th of May 1959, Vickers Viscount AP-AJC was smashed beyond financial repair on landing at the Islamabad International Airport.

• On 14th of August 1959, Vickers Viscount AP-AJE stopped at the Karachi International Airport whilst attempting an overrun with 2 engines broken on training flight. And two of three people on board were killed.
•  PIA Flight 705 was Boeing 720 – 040 B that stopped while sliding to land on Runway 34 at the Cairo International Airport on 20th May 1965 resulting in 119 casualties.
• PIA Flight 740 was Boeing 707-340C that stopped after impersonation from Jeddah International Airport on 26th November 1979. Flight PK740 left Jeddah at 01:29 for a trip to Karachi.
• In March 1981 a PIA jet was seized to Kabul through Al-Zulfiqar.
• PIA Flight 268 was an Airbus A300B4-203, registration AP-BCP, which stopped on loom to Katmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport on 28th September 1992. 167 members were killed.

• PIA Flight 544 was a flight number of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Fokker F27 that was takeover on 25th May 1998. All travelers and team escaped uninjured during happening.

Pakistan International Airlines Destinations

Pakistan International Airlines Destinations in Asia

Pakistan International Airlines Destinations in East Asia

• China
  Beijing - Beijing Capital International Airport
  Hong Kong - Hong Kong International Airport
• Japan
  Tokyo - Narita International Airport

Pakistan International Airlines Destinations in South Asia

• Afghanistan
  Kabul - Kabul International Airport
• Bangladesh
  Dhaka - Zia International Airport
• India
  Delhi - Indira Gandhi International Airport
  Mumbai - Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
• Nepal
  Kathmandu - Tribhuvan International Airport

Pakistan International Airlines Destinations in Pakistan

• Balochistan
  Dalbandin - Dalbandin Airport
  Gwadar - Gwadar International Airport
  Panjgur - Panjgur Airport
  Quetta - Quetta International Airport
  Turbat - Turbat International Airport
• Gilgit-Baltistan
  Gilgit - Gilgit Airport
  Skardu - Skardu Airport
• Islamabad Capital Territory
  Islamabad/Rawalpindi - Benazir Bhutto International Airport Hub
• North West Frontier Province
  Chitral - Chitral Airport
  Dera Ismail Khan - Dera Ismail Khan Airport
  Peshawar - Peshawar International Airport Focus City
• Punjab
  Bahawalpur - Bahawalpur Airport
  Dera Ghazi Khan - Dera Ghazi Khan Airport
  Faisalabad - Faisalabad International Airport
  Lahore - Allama Iqbal International Airport Hub
  Multan - Multan International Airport
  Rahim Yar Khan - Shaikh Zayed International Airport
  Sialkot - Sialkot International Airport
• Sindh
  Hyderabad - Hyderabad Airport
  Karachi - Jinnah International Airport Hub
  Moenjodaro - Moenjodaro Airport
  Nawabshah - Nawabshah Airport
  Sukkur - Sukkur Airport

Pakistan International Airlines Destinations in Southeast Asia

• Malaysia
  Kuala Lumpur - Kuala Lumpur International Airport
• Thailand
  Bangkok - Suvarnabhumi Airport

Pakistan International Airlines Destinations in Southwest Asia

• Bahrain
  Bahrain International Airport
• Kuwait
  Kuwait International Airport
• Oman
  Muscat - Muscat International Airport
• Qatar
  Doha - Doha International Airport
• Saudi Arabia
  Dammam - King Fahd International Airport
  Jeddah - King Abdulaziz International Airport
  Riyadh - King Khalid International Airport
• United Arab Emirates
  Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi International Airport
  Al Ain - Al Ain International Airport
  Dubai - Dubai International Airport
  Sharjah - Sharjah International Airport

Pakistan International Airlines Destinations in Europe

• Denmark
  Copenhagen - Copenhagen Airport
• France
  Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport
• Germany
  Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport
• Italy
  Milan - Malpensa Airport
• Netherlands
  Amsterdam - Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
• Norway
  Oslo - Oslo Airport, Gardermoen
• Spain
  Barcelona - Barcelona Airport
• Turkey
  Istanbul - Atatürk International Airport
• United Kingdom
  Birmingham - Birmingham International Airport
  Bradford - Leeds Bradford International Airport
  Glasgow - Glasgow International Airport
  London - London Heathrow Airport
  Manchester - Manchester Airport

Pakistan International Airlines Destinations in North America

• Canada
  Toronto - Toronto Pearson International Airport
• United States
  New York City - John F. Kennedy International Airport

Pakistan International Airlines Terminated destinations

• Africa
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • Kenya - Nairobi
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • Nigeria - Kano, Lagos
  • Somalia - Mogadishu
  • Tanzania - Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro
• Asia
• Central Asia
  • Kazakhstan - Almaty
  • Turkmenistan - Ashgabat
  • Uzbekistan - Tashkent
• East Asia
  • China - Canton, Shanghai, Urumqi
• South Asia
  • Afghanistan - Kandahar
  • India - Calcutta
  • Maldives - Malé
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo
• Southeast Asia
  • Burma - Yangon
  • Indonesia - Jakarta
  • Philippines - Manila
  • Singapore
• Southwest Asia
  • Azerbaijan - Baku
  • Iran - Mashhad, Tehran, Zahedan
  • Iraq - Baghdad
  • Jordan - Amman
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • North Yemen - Sana'a
  • South Yemen - Aden
  • Syria - Damascus
  • United Arab Emirates - Fujairah, Ras al Khaimah
• Europe
  • Albania - Tirana
  • Austria - Vienna
  • Greece - Athens
  • Italy - Rome
  • Russia - Moscow
  • Switzerland - Geneva, Zurich
  • United Kingdom - London-Stansted
  • West Germany - Munich
• North America
  • United States - Chicago, Houston, Washington

Pakistan International Airlines Fleets

Pakistan International Airlines Codeshare Agreement

• Aerosvit Airlines
  Kiev, Dubai (VV)
  Karachi, Dubai (PK)
• China Southern Airlines
  Urumqi, Islamabad (CZ)
  Islamabad, Beijing (PK)
• Thai Airways International
  Bangkok, Islamabad / Karachi / Lahore (TG)
  Islamabad, Bangkok (PK)
• Turkish Airlines
  Istanbul, Karachi (TK)
  Islamabad, Istanbul (PK)

Pakistan International Airlines Baggage Allowance

Pakistan International Airlines Free Baggage Allowance

• Economy Class -  20 KGS ( Vice Versa basis )
• Economy plus Class -  25 KGS ( Vice Versa basis )
• Business Class - 30 KGS ( Vice Versa basis

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Pakistan International Airlines Free Baggage Allowance International

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