{"id":71910,"date":"2020-11-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=71910"},"modified":"2020-11-06T18:28:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T13:28:34","slug":"pia-plans-to-start-international-flights-to-gwadar-increase-domestic-flights-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-plans-to-start-international-flights-to-gwadar-increase-domestic-flights-count.html","title":{"rendered":"PIA plans to start international flights to Gwadar, increase domestic flights&#8217; count"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced its intention to start international flights and additional domestic flights to and from Gwadar on the completion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cdwp-approves-gwadar-international-airport-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Gwadar Airport<\/a>, according to a news source published on November 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/funds-approved-for-meeting-financial-operational-requirements-of-pias-roosevelt-hotel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Funds approved for meeting financial operational requirements of PIA\u2019s Roosevelt Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The said announcement was made by PIA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Air Marshal Arshad Malik during his visit to the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) on Wednesday. During the said visit, the RCCI members requested the CEO to initiate direct flights from Islamabad to Gwadar, the United States and Europe. Air Marshal Malik assured the business community that the flight operations would be adjusted in order to meet the needs of the people and the commercial validity of the flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/bsm-gets-approval-for-gwadar-golf-city-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BSM gets approval for Gwadar Golf City project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He went to reveal that at present, the flights to Gwadar were being operated via Karachi owing to the shorter runway and substandard refuelling set-up in the port city. He added that flights to Europe and the United States would be resumed once the pending approvals had been cleared and all flight restrictions had been lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced its intention to start international flights and additional domestic flights to and from Gwadar on the completion of the New Gwadar Airport, according to a news source published on November 5. Read: Funds approved for meeting financial operational requirements of PIA\u2019s Roosevelt Hotel The said announcement was made by PIA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Air Marshal Arshad Malik during his visit to the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) on Wednesday. During the said visit, the RCCI members requested the CEO to initiate direct flights from Islamabad to Gwadar, the United States and Europe. Air Marshal Malik assured the business community that the flight operations would be adjusted in order to meet the needs of the people and the commercial validity of the flights. Read: BSM gets approval for Gwadar Golf City project He went to reveal that at present, the flights to Gwadar were being operated via Karachi owing to the shorter runway and substandard refuelling set-up in the port city. He added that flights to Europe and the United States would be resumed once the pending approvals had been cleared and all flight restrictions had been lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":63678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[42553],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-pia-plans-to-start-international-flights-to-gwadar","9":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PIA plans to start international flights to Gwadar - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"During the said visit, the RCCI members requested the CEO to initiate direct flights from Islamabad to Gwadar, the United States and Europe.\" \/>\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-plans-to-start-international-flights-to-gwadar-increase-domestic-flights-count.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PIA plans to start international flights to Gwadar - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"During the said visit, the RCCI members requested the CEO to initiate direct flights from Islamabad to Gwadar, the United States and Europe.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-plans-to-start-international-flights-to-gwadar-increase-domestic-flights-count.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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