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PIA Flight with two passengers, PM Nawaz Sharif takes notice

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As per news report; a PIA flight from Jeddah landed at Karachi with only two passengers aboard. PM Nawaz Sharif taken notice and ordered an investigation against airline officials.

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Other news reports claim it was flight PK-7313 but which aircraft performed that flight on Sunday (February 22)?

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/02 ... assengers/
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/2 ... passengers

Two hundred seater aircraft probably means it was an Airbus A310-300?

Flightradar24 not giving any information about PK-7313.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/pk7313

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Seems it was flight PK-7322 from Jeddah to Karachi performed by PIA Airbus A310-324ET registration AP-BGO.

PK-7322 landed at Karachi Airport at 8:01 AM on February 22.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/pk7322/

Earlier, AP-BGO had performed flight PK-7312 from Karachi to Jeddah. PK-7312 departed from Karachi at 9:52 PM on February 21.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/pk7312/

News reports claim flight PK-7312 carried seventy passengers.

According to recent reports, PIA Airbus A310-300 aircraft are configured to carry a total of 207 passenger in two class layout i.e. 12 passengers in Business Class and 195 passengers in Economy Class.

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According to local newspaper report, the A310 as special Umrah flight PK-7312 from Karachi to Jeddah carried 122 passengers.

There was delay in issuance of permission by Saudi authorities in allowing the aircraft to carry Umrah passengers on its return flight from Jeddah to Karachi.

The delay in permission would have disturbed schedule of other flights to be operated by this aircraft. So it returned to Karachi without passengers.

Probably originally it was going to perform special Umrah flight PK-7313 from Jeddah to Karachi but returned to Karachi as ferry flight PK-7322 from Jeddah?

But why the flight was operated without having Saudi permission before aircraft's departure from Karachi?

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