Hassaan13
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- Jan 10, 2011
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PIA first visited Birmingham with a 747 on September 3, 1999 to celebrate BHX's 60th anniversary (I think). They started flights in April 2000 with a twice-weekly service to Pakistan via Copenhagen with B747's (due to runway limitations at BHX). A third daily service was added in December 2000. In June 2001, Airbus A310's began to be used making the flight direct, and a new LHE-BHX-YYZ and KHE-ISB-BHX-YYZ was added. Around that time 747's were occasionally used. This made 6 weekly flights into BHX. In May 2003, a new route KHE-ISB-BHX-ORD was launched, along with the existing YYZ route. Both routes were axed in March 2004 and moved to Manchester, and BHX was left with a couple of weekly flights from Islamabad with Airbus A310's. In July 2007, after A310's were banned from the EU, 777 began operating into BHX as that was the only aircraft allowed from PIA in the EU. The service went to three weekly, and a fourth weekly flight was added in 2009. Occasionally, the fourth weekly flight has been stopped and resumed for a while in the winter times.
What future expansion could we be getting from PIA?
What future expansion could we be getting from PIA?