{"id":55202,"date":"2019-09-14T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=55202"},"modified":"2019-09-13T16:57:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T11:57:31","slug":"pia-formally-begins-sialkot-london-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-formally-begins-sialkot-london-flights.html","title":{"rendered":"PIA formally begins Sialkot-London flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sialkot: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has officially begun direct international passenger flight operations from the Sialkot International Airport Limited (SIAL) to London, a news source reported. The aviators and ground staff presented a water cannon salute to the PIA aircraft that landed in SIAL from London on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/japanese-airline-interested-starting-flights-islamabad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Japanese airline interested in starting flights to Islamabad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PIA and SIAL held a joint launching ceremony that was attended by the Special Assistant to Prime Minister (PM) on Youth Affairs Usman Dar, and several others officials concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, PIA had launched international passenger flight operations between Barcelona and Sialkot, and Paris and Sialkot, both from SIAL.<\/p>\n<p>Senior PIA officials revealed that initially, PIA will only operate the London-Sialkot flights once a week. Later, the national airline would increase flights to other European countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/direct-flights-from-sialkot-airport-to-europe-begin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Direct flights from Sialkot Airport to Europe begin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Addressing the ceremony, Dar lauded the Sialkot exporters for developing SIAL and launching their own private airlines AirSial on a self-help basis. He added that the government was making sincere efforts for providing international-standard and advanced aviation facilities to passengers in all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cm-orders-completion-saidu-sharif-airport-other-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">airports across the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sialkot: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has officially begun direct international passenger flight operations from the Sialkot International Airport Limited (SIAL) to London, a news source reported. The aviators and ground staff presented a water cannon salute to the PIA aircraft that landed in SIAL from London on Thursday. Read:\u00a0Japanese airline interested in starting flights to Islamabad PIA and SIAL held a joint launching ceremony that was attended by the Special Assistant to Prime Minister (PM) on Youth Affairs Usman Dar, and several others officials concerned. Earlier this year, PIA had launched international passenger flight operations between Barcelona and Sialkot, and Paris and Sialkot, both from SIAL. Senior PIA officials revealed that initially, PIA will only operate the London-Sialkot flights once a week. Later, the national airline would increase flights to other European countries. Read:\u00a0Direct flights from Sialkot Airport to Europe begin Addressing the ceremony, Dar lauded the Sialkot exporters for developing SIAL and launching their own private airlines AirSial on a self-help basis. He added that the government was making sincere efforts for providing international-standard and advanced aviation facilities to passengers in all the airports across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":39906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12978],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-pia-formally-begins-sialkot-london-flights"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PIA formally begins Sialkot-London flights - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sialkot: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has officially begun direct international passenger flight operations from the Sialkot International\" \/>\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\/pia-formally-begins-sialkot-london-flights.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PIA formally begins Sialkot-London flights - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sialkot: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has officially begun direct international passenger flight operations from the Sialkot International\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-formally-begins-sialkot-london-flights.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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