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The timetables of very small airlines, such as Scenic Airways, consisted of one sheet of paper, with their hub's flight time information on the front, and the return times on the back. In recent years, most airlines have stopped production of printed timetables, in order to cut costs and reduce the delay between a change of schedule and a new ...
This was followed up with the airport commencing full commercial flight operations on 3 May 2018 and thus replacing the old airport. On 8 July 2018, the first Airbus A380 landed in Islamabad, arriving as one-off Emirates flight EK-2524 from Dubai International Airport. This was the first time an Airbus A380 flight landed in Pakistan. [17] [18]
AirSial (Urdu: ایئر سیال) is a Pakistani private airline based in Sialkot, inaugurated on 9 December 2020. [1] Air Sial had its first domestic flight on December 25, 2020, and started flying internationally, with King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah as its first destination, on 29 March 2023.
On October 8, 2023, an Airbus A330-200 (registered AP-BNE), flying from Islamabad (Pakistan) to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) with more than 309 Umrah pilgrims on board, was en-route about 280 NM north of Karachi (Pakistan) when the crew initiated an emergency descent due to the loss of cabin pressure. The aircraft diverted to Karachi for a safe ...
[19] [48] During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the PIA operated a series of chartered flights to and from Australia, South Africa, South Korea, UK and the Middle East among others to transport stranded citizens. [49] [50] [51] On 30 June 2020, the European Air Safety Agency banned PIA from operating in Europe for six months. [52]
Airblue Limited (stylized as airblue) is a private Pakistani airline with its head office on the ground floor of the Islamabad Stock Exchange (ISE) Towers in Islamabad, Pakistan. [1] Airblue operates scheduled domestic and international flights, the latter to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. As of February 2024, the airline serves ...