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PIA Planning to Launch Air Safari to the Karakorams from New Islamabad International Airport

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PIA is planning to launch Air Safari to the Karakorams from New Islamabad International Airport expected to become operational in the month of April this year.

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PIA Air Safari promotion on airline's official website. The Air Safari window seat return fare is PKR 25,000 (including taxes). During stopover at Skardu Airport local delicacies will be served to passengers. Passengers will also get special gifts on return flight to Islamabad from Skardu.

BTW, The aircraft type should have mentioned as Airbus A320 instead of 'A-320 Jet Airbus' and Skardu Airport should have been mentioned instead of airport code 'KDU'.

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Seems PIA is to going launch Air Safari soon.



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As per PIA’s official social media accounts, the safari flights will get kicked off from July 16th 2018.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/33958 ... once-again

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PIA Air Safari was launched today.

https://twitter.com/Official_PIA

Probably PIA's regular Airbus A320 Islamabad to Skardu flight PK-451 and Skardu to Islamabad flight PK-452 were operated as Air Safari today?

Today, PIA Airbus A320 registration AP-BLT performed flights PK-451 & PK-452.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-blt

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Cockpit crew of PIA Airbus A320 registration AP-BLT that performed air safari over beautiful mountains in northern Pakistan today.



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Please view this video and like and share with as many people as possible.

After a lovely 6 day trip to the Gilgit/Baltistan area, our return flight’s unexplained delay clouded the whole trip.

We waited several hours with no explanation other than the flight has not left Islamabad.

We were in a hot waiting lounge, with no access to clean drinking water and no ladies restroom. It was reserved for the incoming guests and some ladies were actually told they could go use the men’s restroom.

So we ultimately found out that our flight PK 452 was coming in as a First Safari Flight, after circling the area, giving its VIP guests a birds eye view tour of the area, they were to come in and enjoy a sumptuous lunch at the VIP lounge and when they were ready to leave we would head back with them.

If that was the plan, why were we called in for a 12:30pm flight????

Sad, very sad. Here we are trying to educate our children on equality, care, kindness & justice. The disparity in our system really makes me sad.


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According to PIA spokesperson, the flight PK-451 to Skardu had departed from Islamabad with a delay of two hours due to weather. The airline had informed authorities at Skardu Airport about the delay but somehow this information was not forwarded to passengers of Skardu to Islamabad flight PK-452 who staged protest at Skardu Airport. The aircraft after arriving in Skardu as PK-451 from Islamabad was scheduled to depart from Skardu as flight PK-452 to Islamabad. The airline apologizes to passengers of PK-452 for not informing about the delay.

DG CAA Hassan Baig was also passenger of Air Safari flight and listened to complaints by PK-452 passengers at Skardu Airport. One of the passengers said that due to delayed PK-452 she missed her connecting flight from Islamabad.

According to information on following link, on July 16, PIA Airbus A320 (AP-BLT) as flight PK-451 to Skardu departed from Islamabad with a delay of two hours & twenty-three minutes. The flight departed from Islamabad at 12:53 PM and its scheduled departure time was 10:30 AM. The flight landed at Skardu at 1:36 PM with a delay of two hours & six minutes. The flight's scheduled arrival time at Skardu was 11:30 AM.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/pk451

By the way, PK-451 is a regular flight operated with Airbus A320 on Islamabad-Skardu route. According to news sources, window seats were allocated to air safari passengers. Does it mean window seat passengers pay different fare on such flight and does it fly on a different route/altitude as air safari?

The flight PK-451 from Islamabad to Skardu on July 16 was completed in forty-four minutes which is normal time taken by this flight. It means the flight as air safari did not take extra time for its completion.

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The PIA spokesperson also stated that Islamabad to Skardu flight as air safari did not take extra time in the air.

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PIA air safari flight will be operated ever Saturday and Sunday.



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inducedrag wrote: Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:51 am Please view this video and like and share with as many people as possible.

After a lovely 6 day trip to the Gilgit/Baltistan area, our return flight’s unexplained delay clouded the whole trip.

We waited several hours with no explanation other than the flight has not left Islamabad.

We were in a hot waiting lounge, with no access to clean drinking water and no ladies restroom. It was reserved for the incoming guests and some ladies were actually told they could go use the men’s restroom.

So we ultimately found out that our flight PK 452 was coming in as a First Safari Flight, after circling the area, giving its VIP guests a birds eye view tour of the area, they were to come in and enjoy a sumptuous lunch at the VIP lounge and when they were ready to leave we would head back with them.

If that was the plan, why were we called in for a 12:30pm flight????

Sad, very sad. Here we are trying to educate our children on equality, care, kindness & justice. The disparity in our system really makes me sad.


As a nation we are happy to degrade others, we are happy to blame others, our nation has learned only one thing,blame others, never change your self, change is only for others, any how the official guy has temperament and complains are also right but the gesture is not well.
Flights in northern areas are subjected to weather, tourists and passengers know that and what some one can do when weather is bad and his or her connecting flight miss due to weather, I am sure that she will crying with nature.
And this happens only in Pakistan,I am sure that this lady could not able to do that out side Pakistan.
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The route for PIA air safari flight between Islamabad and Skradu has been changed for about fifteen to twenty minutes during which the aircraft flies over Karakoram mountain range with live in-flight commentary for passengers. The air safari flight is one of regular flights operated by the airline between Islamabad and Skardu.



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The Supreme Court of Pakistan has taken notice of first flight of PIA's new Air Safari operated on July 16 and controversy generated by it i.e. complaints against free riders/guests aboard aircraft and its delayed arrival in Skardu that upset fare-paying passengers waiting for the aircraft at Skardu Airport for travel to Islamabad. One of the passengers was complaining about inadequate washroom facilities at Skardu Airport which apparently is the responsibility of Pakistan CAA.

Secretary Aviation and CEO PIA have been asked to appear before the court.

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PIA accused of impromptu air safari

https://www.dawn.com/news/1420785/pia-a ... air-safari

GILGIT/RAWALPINDI: Tourists and passengers protested at Skardu airport against a four-hour delay of a PIA Skardu-Islamabad flight on Tuesday, alleging that the airline management had sacrificed customers’ rights to favour Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) officials with an ‘air safari’.

Accusing PIA of having delayed the flight to take VIP passengers from Islamabad on an air safari comprising the K2, Nanga Parbat and other mountain peaks, the passengers complained that they were not even allowed to use the washrooms in the PIA waiting room in Skardu.
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