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hope they get more passengers and more revenue and keep operating.

not many airlines serving Pakistani airports these days so whatever foreign carriers are taking risk, i hope they earn good revenue and continue the operations. Not much direct flight options to Sri Lanka from Pak anyway, so its good at least some airline is trying.
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In recent days, that Boeing 747-281F (SCD) registration 4L-MRK of The Cargo Airlines performed Iraqi Airways flight IA-9001 from Lahore to Arbil/Erbil (Iraq) with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) relief goods.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ia9001/

The aircraft arrives in Lahore from Kabul as flight IA-9002. Probably from Arbil/Erbil it flies to Kabul.

Following photo shows it at Erbil International Airport on December 4.

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The airline is gaining passenger load. Today on Mihin 186 LHE-CMB operated by A320 the load was 129 ( 123 Passengers )
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Mihin Lanka A319

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Mihin Lanka operating their newly added A319 to Lahore. Does any body have the picture of MJ A319 ?
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From June 18, 2015, Mihin Lanka is going to increase flights between Colombo and Lahore from thrice-a-week to five times a week!

Info Source: http://airlineroute.net/2015/04/10/mj-jun15/

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Mihin Lanka streamer displayed by a travel agency in Lahore photographed today.

Eleven destinations promoted are:

Colombo
Sharjah
Bahrain
Seychelles
Jakarta
Dhaka
Madurai
Gaya
Varanasi
Kolkata
Medan

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Presently Mihin Lanka is operating thrice-a-week flights between Colombo and Lahore with Airbus A320 family aircraft.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/mj185/

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Mihin Lanka is now operating four flights a week between Colombo and Lahore every Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday with Airbus A319.

Source: mihinlanka.com

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(Left to Right) Thai Airways Boeing 777-2D7 registration HS-TJF pushed back to perform flight TG-346 to Bangkok, Mihin Lanka Airbus A319-132 registration 4R-MRF being prepared to perform flight MJ-186 to Colombo and PIA Boeing 777-2Q8ER registration AP-BMH arrival as flight PK-248 from Dammam photographed by Haider Ali at Allama Iqbal International Air Port (AIIAP) - Lahore on July 4, 2016.

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Re: Mihin Lanka to fly Lahore

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Is PIA have plans to launch Lahore-Colombo , Karachi-Colombo route?
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Re: Mihin Lanka to fly Lahore

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Mihin lanka to discontinue Lahore route from 20-Sep-2016. any reason why?
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Re: Mihin Lanka to fly Lahore

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Low demand?
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Sri Lanka’s budget airline, Mihin Lanka will wind up its operations this year.The airline will be absorbed to the national carrier SriLankan, Public Enterprises Development Minister Kabir Hashim said. Mihin Lanka’s destination network includes Dhaka in Bangladesh, Jakarta and Medan in Indonesia as well as Madurai, Kolkata, Gaya and Varanasi in India.

The airline also flies to Sharjah and Bahrain in the Middle East, as well as Lahore in Pakistan and the Seychelles. The airline also launched daily flights to Jakarta from yesterday.He said that the airlines’ aircraft will be taken over re-branded as SriLankan.

“Mihin Lanka has some important routes like to Jakarta and Bangladesh and we want to retain them.We will ask SriLankan Airlines to service these routes after the merger.” Hashim said that since this is a merger the existing staff will not be affected and their ‘jobs’ will be secure.

He said the rationale behind merging with Sri Lankan was to cut costs.He also said that that during the previous regime the airline business was not taken seriously and ‘snap’ decisions like creating Mihin Lanka was taken creating a heavy final burden to the country.

http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=2016/07/22/business/88251

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I personally do not believe that mihin lanka was underperforming, otherwise they would have serviced lahore for two years. I think that it is up to sri lankan to consider lahore after winding up. But it is said to see losing lahore an another airline.
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Doubt it has anything to do with merger otherwise Sri Lankan would have maintained the route had it been doing well.