{"id":52530,"date":"2019-06-04T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=52530"},"modified":"2019-06-03T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T11:23:03","slug":"first-british-airways-flight-lands-isl-after-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/first-british-airways-flight-lands-isl-after-a-decade.html","title":{"rendered":"First British Airways flight lands in Isl after a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The first British Airways flight landed at Islamabad airport after the airline had stopped operations for over a decade, a news source reported. Flying in from Heathrow International Airport, London, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner carried 249 passengers. It later departed for Heathrow again.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/british-airways-to-resume-services-starting-june-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Airways to resume services starting June 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As British Airways resumes its operations, flights will fly thrice a week between Heathrow and Islamabad during the ongoing summer season.<\/p>\n<p>After making a successful landing, the passengers of the first flight were welcomed by Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Advisor to PM on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood, and Special Assistant to PM on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfiqar Hussain Bukhari. Senior officials of the Aviation Division and the British High Commission were also present at the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/promotion-of-tourism-govt-seeks-help-from-british-airways.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Promotion of tourism &#8211; govt seeks help from British Airways<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sarwar, Dawood, along with Special Assistant to PM on Information &amp; Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan, held a press conference with British High Commissioner Thomas Drew, Chief Commercial Officer British Airways Andrew Brem and the Aviation Secretary later in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The first British Airways flight landed at Islamabad airport after the airline had stopped operations for over a decade, a news source reported. Flying in from Heathrow International Airport, London, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner carried 249 passengers. It later departed for Heathrow again. Read:\u00a0British Airways to resume services starting June 2 As British Airways resumes its operations, flights will fly thrice a week between Heathrow and Islamabad during the ongoing summer season. After making a successful landing, the passengers of the first flight were welcomed by Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Advisor to PM on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood, and Special Assistant to PM on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfiqar Hussain Bukhari. Senior officials of the Aviation Division and the British High Commission were also present at the occasion. Read:\u00a0Promotion of tourism &#8211; govt seeks help from British Airways Sarwar, Dawood, along with Special Assistant to PM on Information &amp; Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan, held a press conference with British High Commissioner Thomas Drew, Chief Commercial Officer British Airways Andrew Brem and the Aviation Secretary later in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":12807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11821],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-first-british-airways-flight-lands-in-isl-after-a-decade"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>First British Airways flight lands in Isl after a decade - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The first British Airways flight landed at Islamabad airport after the airline had stopped operations for over a decade, a news source\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/first-british-airways-flight-lands-isl-after-a-decade.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First British Airways flight lands in Isl after a decade - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The first British Airways flight landed at Islamabad airport after the airline had stopped operations for over a decade, a news source\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/first-british-airways-flight-lands-isl-after-a-decade.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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