{"id":74995,"date":"2021-03-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=74995"},"modified":"2021-03-19T18:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:29:39","slug":"pia-to-resume-domestic-flights-to-saidu-sharif-after-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-to-resume-domestic-flights-to-saidu-sharif-after-17-years.html","title":{"rendered":"PIA to resume domestic flights to Saidu Sharif after 17 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) was recently informed by the Pakistan International Airways (PIA) that flight operations from Lahore and Islamabad to Saidu Sharif (Swat) will resume from March 26, a news source reported on March 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/three-new-domestic-airlines-on-the-cards-caa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Three new domestic airlines on the cards: CAA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, PIA will operate two flights per week and the first is scheduled to depart from Islamabad on March 26. The PIA management had requested the CAA for the necessary arrangements for resumption of flights and upon receiving the written letter from PIA, the CAA finalized the requested arrangements at Saidu Sharif airport which had been nonoperational since 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-plans-to-start-international-flights-to-gwadar-increase-domestic-flights-count.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PIA plans to start international flights to Gwadar, increase domestic flights\u2019 count<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The infrastructure to handle domestic travel has been in place since September 2019 and the CAA has invested huge sums of money for the smoother operations, including runaway and better car parking. Air Traffic Control (ATC) and Airports Security Force (ASF) were also notified to facilitate the biweekly flights and the essential personal will be deployed at the airport before March 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) was recently informed by the Pakistan International Airways (PIA) that flight operations from Lahore and Islamabad to Saidu Sharif (Swat) will resume from March 26, a news source reported on March 19. Read: Three new domestic airlines on the cards: CAA Initially, PIA will operate two flights per week and the first is scheduled to depart from Islamabad on March 26. The PIA management had requested the CAA for the necessary arrangements for resumption of flights and upon receiving the written letter from PIA, the CAA finalized the requested arrangements at Saidu Sharif airport which had been nonoperational since 2004. Read: PIA plans to start international flights to Gwadar, increase domestic flights\u2019 count The infrastructure to handle domestic travel has been in place since September 2019 and the CAA has invested huge sums of money for the smoother operations, including runaway and better car parking. Air Traffic Control (ATC) and Airports Security Force (ASF) were also notified to facilitate the biweekly flights and the essential personal will be deployed at the airport before March 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":63678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[22074,24718],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-civil-aviation-authority-caa","9":"tag-pakistan-international-airlines-pia","10":"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 to resume domestic flights to Saidu Sharif after 17 years - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Civil Aviation Authority was recently informed by the Pakistan International Airways that flight operations from Lahore and Islamabad to Saidu Sharif (Swat) will resume from March 26.\" \/>\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-to-resume-domestic-flights-to-saidu-sharif-after-17-years.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PIA to resume domestic flights to Saidu Sharif after 17 years - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Civil Aviation Authority was recently informed by the Pakistan International Airways that flight operations from Lahore and Islamabad to Saidu Sharif (Swat) will resume from March 26.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-to-resume-domestic-flights-to-saidu-sharif-after-17-years.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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