PK747 Lahore to Medina Delayed for several hours

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PK747 Lahore to Medina Delayed for several hours

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PK747 LHE-MED delayed for a longgg time. Schedule flight was at 6:00 PM but till 1:00 AM, flight not operated.

Any idea for details of issue?
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The airline announced flight's cancellation at 12:00 AM, according to City42 News channel.

Upset passengers protesting at Lahore Airport. Passengers complaining that the airline is not giving proper explanation for flight delay/cancellation.

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Re: PK747 Lahore to Medina Delayed for several hours

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Heard on one of the news channels that the aircraft arrived from Jeddah with a cracked wind screen. The sensationalised news suggested that the Captain for the flight to Medina was pressurised to operate the flight with the cracked wind screen but he refused.
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Ohh my GOD, this is very dangerous.

Now when will flight operate?

Are they fixing up issue in Lahore?

It was supposed to be AP-BGL to operate this flight? Can anyone tell that which aircraft will now operate at 12 PM noon now?

Heard about complaint of non working of AC while on ground by passengers. My parents are also coming in same flight to Medina.

PIA didn't give any meals to passengers who were disembarked after boarding. Flight was already delayed first from 6 to 9 PM, then to 11:30 then boarding was done and passengers kept waiting for an hour and were informed to disembark and said we are fixing some issue with AC as all passengers were complaining of severe heat and congestion. After some time, they informed flight is cancelled.

I am now thinking as if I have made a mistake to opt for national carrier. :(

May be now I will never opt for PIA not for any travelling. Worst ever experience...
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Abb Takk news channel also reported that flight is delayed due to cracked windshield of the aircraft and engineering personnel/aircraft inspectors have declared the aircraft not airworthy to perform flight. The channel also showed footage of exchange of arguments between PK-747 passengers and PIA staff at Lahore Airport.

Maybe the aircraft is PIA Boeing 777-240ER registration AP-BGL that landed at Lahore Airport at 9:48 PM on January 5 as flight PK-7212 from Jeddah and since then it has not returned to the skies.

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

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Last discussion sith my parents and they told me that they are now boarding in plane. Staff at counter told that this plane just came from karachi, may be PK-304, performed by AP-BGK.

Now same aircraft will come as PK-747.

Very tiring for passengers, it was due to fly on Thursday, 6 PM. But now will be flying on Friday, around 6 - 6:15 PM.
Am thinking about Passengers who are not from Lahore. Must be extremely tiring and unbearable. Passengers from Lahore went home last night and rest accommodated in Hotels. But still not a pleasant experience.
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Re: PK747 Lahore to Medina Delayed for several hours

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PIA Boeing 777-240ER registration AP-BGK departed from Lahore at 6:28 PM as flight PK-747 to Medina with a delay of more than twenty-four hours.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/pk747

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Thanks for sharing abbas bhai.

My father told that in this plane, AC appeared to be working on ground...

In AP-BGL, it was not working and everyone was crying.
May be AP-BGK is in better shape though appears to be same series and same time of delivery plus minus
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Re: PK747 Lahore to Medina Delayed for several hours

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Thanks to you Rizwan for keeping us updated about PK-747.

Maybe PIA Lahore to Karachi flights PK-303 & PK-305 now delayed due to unavailability of AP-BGK (performing PK-747) & AP-BGL (grounded)?

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/pk303
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/pk305

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Grounded PIA Boeing 777-240ER registration AP-BGL seen at Lahore Airport on January 6. Also seen is PIA Premier Airbus A330-343 registration 4R-ALN that had landed at the airport at 6:34 AM as flight PK-758 from London-Heathrow.

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According to City42 News channel, due to unavailability of aircraft PIA has cancelled Lahore to Karachi flight PK-305 that was scheduled to depart from Lahore at 6:00 PM.

More than three hundred passengers of cancelled PK-305 will be accommodated on other PIA flights to Karachi from Lahore.

Seems PIA Boeing 777-240ER registration AP-BGK was going to perform flight PK-305 but as alternate aircraft had to perform Lahore to Medina flight PK-747 after grounding of her sister ship AP-BGL due to cracked windshield reported by news sources.

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

Maybe PIA Lahore to Karachi flight PK-303 also cancelled due to grounding of AP-BGL? PK-303 was scheduled to depart from Lahore at 11:00 AM and it seems AP-BGL was going to perform this flight today.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/pk303

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Re: PK747 Lahore to Medina Delayed for several hours

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Absolute shambles. I am sure PIA does not have wind screens in stock, otherwise the aircraft could have been back in service in 4 to 6 hours.
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Re: PK747 Lahore to Medina Delayed for several hours

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The wind screen cracking issue seems to be pretty common in aviation industry. Go to avherald and you will find similar thing hapening to airliners around the world at average every 2-3 months. Is thermal shock the reason behind this ?
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Re: PK747 Lahore to Medina Delayed for several hours

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Airliners do experience cracked windshields around the world.

The main issue is how airlines around the world handle such situations without causing too much inconvenience to passengers or disturbance in flights schedule.

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Re: PK747 Lahore to Medina Delayed for several hours

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Cancellation and delays in 777 flights were being originated from unavailability of AP-BGY coz of its wings issue in Toronto and at same time, AP-BGL wind screen crack.

AP-BGL bot yet back in service, however AP-BGY has come back to duty