Does PIA have intention of getting 100 seater aircraft?

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uzairali
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Does PIA have intention of getting 100 seater aircraft?

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Does anyone from inside PIA know about procuring 100 seater aircraft for places like northern areas or LHE to KHI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_CSeries

This aircraft is selling for half price, $35 million, as its struggling to attract enough sales. List price starts at $75 million for 108-133 seater.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_E-Jet_E2_family

List price starts $46.8 for 80-88 seats. Next one is $53.6m with 106 seats and range for 5200km, so it can serve Delhi as well daily.


I hope someone recommend PIA to place order for some jets, like 5? PIA has 2-3 years before paying full price as there are a lot of orders. Or PIA can negotiate with leasing company to order for them and then dry lease on 10 year term.


Excellent aircraft for travel between PEW/ISB to LHE, LHE/ISB to skardu/Gilgit and KHI-LHE, Faisalabad etc. a320 is big aircraft for one hour long flights. Even rich countries use embraer or jet engine aircraft to connect 1 hour far cities


This way PIA has:

ATR 50-70 seats
Mini jet for 100-130 seats
a320 160-180 seats
a321 190-220 seats
b788 250-280 seats
b772 310-330 seats
b773 400 seats


Right now PIA is:

50-70 seats
158 seats
300 seats
330 seats
400 seats


So it is using 300 seater plane on 200 seats. 158 seater plane on 70 seats etc.
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Re: Does PIA have intention of getting 100 seater aircraft?

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They have always had a gap, atleast with AR72 thats been reduced somewhat.

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uzairali
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Re: Does PIA have intention of getting 100 seater aircraft?

Post by uzairali »

CoyBoy wrote:They have always had a gap, atleast with AR72 thats been reduced somewhat.

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Yes

Shaheen has b734 and now they're introducing a319 (albiet 150 seaters, they are designed for 120 seats). So hopefully PIA also introduces a318/a319 like aircraft. But a318 is very unpopular so it's better to get embraer/bombadier jets for 1 hour flights.