PIA Announces Extra Daily Flight on Karachi-Gwadar Route for Gwadar Expo 2018

[Abbas Ali]

Karachi, January 24, 2018: PIA has announced special extra daily flight from Karachi to Gwadar for one week starting from 26th January in addition to its daily flights to Gwadar. The decision was taken by President & CEO PIA Musharraf Rasool Cyan in order to help promote Gwadar Expo 2018 due to be held on 29-30 January 2018.

Source: PIA Press Release

[Abbas Ali]

Information about Gwadar Expo 2018 on following link:

http://gwadar-expo.com/

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

The extra PIA Karachi to Gwadar flight operated today was PK-8505 that departed from Karachi at 10:12 AM. The flight's scheduled departure time was 10:00 AM.


Source: karachiairport.com.pk

The regular Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-503 is scheduled to depart from Karachi at 2:00 PM today.


Source: karachiairport.com.pk

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

Apparently, today PIA operated following three special flights from Karachi to Gwadar to transport delegates/visitors attending Gwadar Expo 2018 January 29-30.

Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-8503 departed from Karachi at 7:34 AM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 7:30 AM.
Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-8507 departed from Karachi at 8:12 AM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 8:00 AM.
Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-8509 departed from Karachi at 1:02 PM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 12:20 PM.

The airline's regular Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-503 was cancelled at 5:00 PM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 2:00 PM.

Info Source: http://karachiairport.com.pk/Schedule.a ... =Departure

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

Seems operations of narrow-body jet aircraft still not possible at Gwadar Airport. Otherwise, PIA could have operated special flight with Airbus A320 instead of multiple special flights with ATR turboprop aircraft.

Abbas

[Pakistan-1]

Seems operations of narrow-body jet aircraft still not possible at Gwadar Airport. Otherwise, PIA could have operated special flight with Airbus A320 instead of multiple special flights with ATR turboprop aircraft.

Abbas

Could be because of the Lack of Equipment at the airport.

[Abbas Ali]

^ Yes, maybe unavailability of ground handling equipment like mobile stairs, baggage/cargo loading/unloading machines etc. because the airport is not served by jet flights of any airline.

Maybe PIA has plan to operate flights between Gwadar and Islamabad with Airbus A320 in the future and then will place equipment to handle A320 flights at Gwadar Airport.

BTW, today PIA operated following two special flights from Karachi to Gwadar to transport delegates/visitors attending Gwadar Expo 2018 January 29-30.

Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-8507 departed from Karachi at 7:49 AM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 7:30 AM.
Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-8505 departed from Karachi at 3:44 PM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 1:00 PM.

The airline's regular Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-503 departed from Karachi at 12:59 PM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 12:30 PM.

Info Source: http://karachiairport.com.pk/Schedule.a ... =Departure

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

Today, PIA operated two special flights from Karachi to Gwadar to transport delegates/visitors attending Gwadar Expo 2018 January 29-30.

Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-8503 departed from Karachi at 8:06 AM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 8:00 AM.
Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-8505 departed from Karachi at 12:42 PM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 12:30 PM.

The airline's regular Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-503 departed from Karachi at 2:09 PM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 2:00 PM.

Info Source: http://karachiairport.com.pk/Schedule.a ... =Departure

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

Today, PIA operated one special extra flight from Karachi to Gwadar.

Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-8503 departed from Karachi at 3:52 PM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 12:30 PM.

The airline's regular Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-503 departed from Karachi at 7:19 AM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 7:00 AM.

Info Source: http://karachiairport.com.pk/Schedule.a ... =Departure

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

On February 1, PIA operated following two flights from Karachi to Gwadar.

Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-503 departed from Karachi at 7:13 AM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 7:00 AM.

Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-505 departed from Karachi at 2:55 PM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 2:30 PM.

On February 2, PIA operated following two flights from Karachi to Gwadar.

Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-503 departed from Karachi at 7:17 AM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 7:00 AM.

Karachi to Gwadar flight PK-505 departed from Karachi at 2:33 PM. Flight's scheduled departure time was 2:30 PM.

Info Source: http://karachiairport.com.pk/Schedule.a ... =Departure

Abbas