Manchester: Pakistan International Airlines

[Scottie Dog]

Courtesy of Airlineroute dated Wednesday 14th October:

Pakistan International intends to extend leased A330 Manchester service to NW20
Posted 14 October 2020 09:30

Pakistan International Airlines has extended schedule listing for Islamabad – Manchester route, on board leased Airbus A330-300 aircraft. Schedule listing shows the leased aircraft to continue operate this route during winter season, on/after 25OCT20. Reservation for the moment is not available.

The airline plans to operate this route once weekly in November, two weekly from 15DEC20. Operational day varies during winter season, therefore following schedule covers the week of 14DEC20. Additional changes remain likely in the next few days.

PK9701 ISB1245 – 1610MAN 333 3
PK9701 ISB1545 – 1900MAN 333 6

PK9702 MAN1900 – 0745+1ISB 333 2
PK9702 MAN2100 – 0950+1ISB 333 6

 

[Scottie Dog]

Courtesy of Airlineroute

Pakistan International Airlines in last week’s schedule update filed planned European operation with leased Airbus A330-300 aircraft from HiFly, effective from 25OCT20. Planned operation between 25OCT20 and 31DEC20, as of 16OCT20 as follows.

Islamabad – London Heathrow A330-300 operates every 2 weeks
Islamabad – Manchester A330-300 operates 1 weekly
Islamabad – Paris CDG A330-300 operates every 2 weeks

 

[CM.]

Pakistan international airlines are looking to do 2 flights to Lahore over the next couple of weeks.
1x flight on the 23rd June using presumably a Euro Atlantic aircraft.
1x flight on 7th July using a Hi Fly A339.

SPD travels Twitter.

 

[Scottie Dog]

PIA/Jordan Aviation will return to Manchester on 20th Sept.

Operating initially 3 weekly on Tue/Thu/Sat as PK9701/9702.

Schedules beyond Sept for UK ops haven’t been finalised as still show actual PIA operating from Oct, which seems unlikely.

SPD travels
@SPD_travels twitter

 

[Scottie Dog]

From SeanM on twitter

Pakistan International Airlines is looking to resume flights to 🇬🇧Manchester in February 2025, followed by London, then other UK cities

They are aiming for 19x weekly flights to Europe for Summer 2025

 

[gulftraveller]

The Historyofpia forum is reporting that the airline will discontinue CDG-LHE in mid September to free up an aircraft for MAN-ISB. It does suggest that the issue of short term aircraft availability is worse than assumed. Where this leaves LHR, BCN and MXP in their plans, who knows.

 

[Matt995]

Current PIA fleet status:

Boeing 777-200ER

Active:

AP-BGK
AP-BHX
AP-BMH

In-active:

AP-BGJ
AP-BGL
AP-BMG


Boeing 777-200LR

Active:

AP-BGY

In-active:

AP-BGZ


Boeing 777-300ER

Active:

AP-BHV

In-Active:

AP-BHW
AP-BID
AP-BMS

 

[Scottie Dog]

From Ringway Reports:

 

[Jerry]

NEW ROUTE

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) - Islamabad to Manchester. Flights start 25 October 2025

PK701 ISB 1220-1600 MAN (Tue & Sat)

PK702 MAN 1800-0645+1 ISB (Tue)
PK702 MAN 1800-0650+1 ISB (Sat)

Flights on sale. Slightly different timings for inaugural flight

https://twitter.com/x/status/1974362244340428945

 

[BlueManc]

PK701 in the air. AP-BGK eta MAN 1642.

Is this first PK flight in UK airspace since the ban (30/6/20)?

My kettle just died. I bought it in July 2020. Cue the X-Files music.

 

[gulftraveller]

HistoryofPIA is reporting third weekly ISB-MAN from 11/12 on a Thursday. I am surprised as AP-BHX remains out of service and AP-BMH never operates European sectors. The same thread reports 100% load factors t/f MAN. We will have to await Scottiedog’s next update or CAA figures to see whether that is true.

 

[Scottie Dog]

HistoryofPIA is reporting third weekly ISB-MAN from 11/12 on a Thursday. I am surprised as AP-BHX remains out of service and AP-BMH never operates European sectors. The same thread reports 100% load factors t/f MAN. We will have to await Scottiedog’s next update or CAA figures to see whether that is true.

Don't forget that the CAA figures for October won't be out until December!!

 

[LS@MAN]

HistoryofPIA is reporting third weekly ISB-MAN from 11/12 on a Thursday. I am surprised as AP-BHX remains out of service and AP-BMH never operates European sectors. The same thread reports 100% load factors t/f MAN. We will have to await Scottiedog’s next update or CAA figures to see whether that is true.

Same is being reported on X from SPD Travels who is a very reliable source.