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Naming the aircraft in PIA's fleet

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According to an article in Brecorder Tariq Kirmani said to improve cultural heritage of Pakistan they will name each aircraft in the fleet...so the obvious question is what will the names be ? Will they be similiar to the ones we had back in the 1990s, however as we dont have the A300s anymore which city/area will get those names ?

Here's the extract from the article if anyones interested;

PIA to promote country's culture: Kirmani
ISLAMABAD (January 19 2006): PIA Chairman Tariq Kirmani on Wednesday said the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) have prepared a plan to promote country's culture through aircraft.

Speaking in a PTV programme, he said each aircraft will be named after a particular area, province, or city and would exhibit the culture peculiar to that.
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I think that's a very good idea. I would love to see PIA airliners named after Pakistani cities, towns and rivers.
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Maybe they can have a system for the naming of the aircraft

For example, the heavy jets B747s could be named after provinces and the next ones i.e. the B777 named according to larger cities e.g. KHI /LHE/ ISB etc and the smaller ones B737/ATR after smaller towns e.g. Chitral / Gilgit etc

Therefore each province has equal representation on heavies as well as narrow bodies.
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Post by Nasir »

PK777 wrote:the heavy jets B747s could be named after provinces
What do you do when you have more than 4 heavies?!
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Post by Moin »

Lol! Good question :D Now that could pose a problem.
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Nasir wrote:
PK777 wrote:the heavy jets B747s could be named after provinces
What do you do when you have more than 4 heavies?!
I knew that, at the moment as there are 6 B743 and 2 B742,

we can name them Sindh, Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan

Then the smaller territories e.g. Islamabad Capital Territory, FATA and PATA, Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas

However, if PIA intentions are to have more than nine heavies (B747s) in the future i guess we could include capital of each province or territory
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Post by Aphelion »

There are many unsung heros of Pakistan, both past and present, so how about naming the planes after them. No politicians or Military rulers should be included. The ones I can think of are:

Abdul Sattar Edhi
Professor Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1979)
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PK777 wrote:Then the smaller territories e.g. Islamabad Capital Territory, FATA and PATA, Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas
A PIA 747 named FATA or (worst yet) PATA (as in PATA Pyjama :)). Impressive!
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I just wrote the initials, the actual names are Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), but i guess in this day and age one wouldnt really want to see that on the side of the aircraft either :wink:
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Post by Nasir »

Ya, good point :wink:
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Post by B777240ER »

We should just stick to cities. :wink:
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Post by Waqar747 »

Much like KLM.
Their 744 PH-BFK is named Karachi!
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Weren't they named in the past, as i think I have seen some planes with names on them?? :? :?
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Waqar747 wrote:Much like KLM.
Their 744 PH-BFK is named Karachi!
Still named Karachi after all this time.......

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Gulistan wrote:Weren't they named in the past, as i think I have seen some planes with names on them?? :? :?
Yeah they were back in the 90s, to celebrate the anniversary of PIA.

the B747, A300 and Fokkers were given names of towns and cities..

Go to the following link to see the names;

http://www.historyofpia.com/oldfleet.htm