Tag: Routes

A day after the nuisance created by the workers of a banned outfit, the supporters of Mumtaz Qadri on Friday made it almost impossible...

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates has announced it would commence services to Chengdu and Shanghai, both subject to government...

KARACHI - Private airlines are violating one of the mandatory conditions to their licenses, namely Regular Passenger Traffic (RPT) by flying more international operations than less profitable but necessary national flights.
It has been learnt that Shaheen Air and Air Blue have been violating this basic rule for quite some time by flying more international operations than flying routes on that include destinations like Gwadar, Turbat and Sukkur.
If these airlines fail to

LAHORE - European countries are being used as hot destinations by al Qaeda to route money to India, Indian newspaper The Hindustan Times quoted a report by Peruvian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) - disclosed by WikiLeaks - as stating. The report stated that the FIU had found at least one such suspicious transaction by al Qaeda every month and shared them with investigators from the United States.
"The FIU also reports tracking cases similar to that of an OFAC-designated (US

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan International Airline (PIA) has not signed any agreement with Turkish Airlines to sell any of its profitable air routes, Defence Secretary Lt Gen (r) Syed Athar Ali told the NA Standing Committee on Defence on Wednesday.
"PIA is not authorised to sign agreement with any country and the matter of selling routes only appeared in talks as record of discussion between the PIA and Turkish Airlines officials," Ali told the committee that met with Dr Azra Fazal

ISLAMABAD - Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar has declared to the National Assembly that there is no plan to sell off PIA's profitable routes to other country or airlines. Responding to a point of order raised by PML-N lawmaker Hanif Abbasi, he said no direct flights and profitable routes would be sold out to any other country and added that direct flights would continue for London and US.
"We intend to extend more facilities to the passengers and conduct further efforts to make the

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Defense on Wednesday told the Standing Committee of the Senate on Defense and Defense Productions that prior to permission of operating internationally, three years of domestic operation will be compulsory for private airlines.
"The three years domestic operation is an evaluative period as it will help the ministry to ascertain that a airline seeking permission of international operation is able to ensure the safety of the passengers, technical

ISLAMABAD - National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence Wednesday directed the Ministry of Defence to bar the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) from selling any profitable routes to other airlines, calling it detrimental to the business of the national airlines.
The committee chairperson, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, chaired the meeting. Taking notice of a news report that PIA had agreed to sell to Turkish Air Lines all the existing routes to Europe and America except London,

STAFF REPORT - The PIA would provide daily link to over 100 international destinations from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad under a joint venture commercial arrangement with Turkish Airlines, the PIA spokesman said on Thursday. Pakistani passengers have been demanding that the PIA should provide daily flights to all operational international destinations and also link other major cities of the world with Pakistan.
This is not possible because of the limitations of fleet and