Delivery of Dry Leased Airbus A320s to PIA to Begin in June

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Re: Delivery of Dry Leased Airbus A320s to PIA to Begin in J

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Abbas Ali wrote:
Foxtrot.Romeo wrote:The tail is the same as the rest of the fleet right now.
Aircraft will be delivered tomorrow as flight Pk-1786 from SHA to ISB departing SHA at 6 am China local time and arriving ISB at 10 30 am Pakistan standard time.

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Thank you for sharing photo and info :thumbs_up:

Is it possible to know Pakistani registration allocated to this A320 (B-6015) ?

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Not sure. But we will know tomorrow for sure once aircraft is here.
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AP-BLA perhaps?
according to aprm.net bla-d have not been allocated to any aircraft.
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According to Aaj News channel, the first A320 is expected to land at Islamabad Airport at 8:00 AM on June 28.

PIA's own crew will ferry the aircraft from Shanghai.

According to SAMAA news channel:

The second A320 will arrive in Pakistan on July 15.

Third A320 will arrive in Pakistan in September.

According to Abb Takk news channel:

The second and third A320s will join PIA fleet in July.

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What is the planned route for this A/c
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Just some correction to the media news abbas. Aircraft is scheduled to arrive at 10 30 am.
Samaa news is correct. Second aircraft mid july and third in mid september.
It is being ferried by pia's own crew. Planned aircraft route is nonstop from shanghai to islamabad tomorrow.
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PIA leased Airbus A320 has just taken off from Shangai Airport as flight 1786.Local time is 3.40 AM.
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According to FlightRadar 24.com the flight has landed
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Ferried as flight PK-1786 from Shanghai to Islamabad under Pakistani registration AP-BLC.

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/ap-blc

Landed at Islamabad at 7:28 AM local time.

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Any pics of this B-6015 in Pakistan..?
And when it is starting to operate PIA flights..?
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320 arived
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Selcal LC indicates that it has been given the registration AP-BLC?

Apparently a very warm welcome was given to both The 320 and the operating crew :thumbs_up:

This A320 arrived under the command of Capt. Zafar Islam.

Looking forward to flying in it!
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PIA Airbus A320-214 after arriving at Islamabad Airport this morning. Letters 'LC' on nose gear door indicate Pakistani registration AP-BLC is issued to this aircraft.

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Thanks to Salaar Farrukh for sharing photo!

Basic info about this A320 airframe:

Aircraft Type: Airbus A320-214
Construction Number: 2212
Year Built: 2004
Engines: CFM International CFM56-5B4/P
Last Known Registration: B-6015
Last Known Operator: China Eastern Airlines

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Looking nice except the reverse coloured flag on engines. It would have looked nice if they had painted engine green and put PIA urdu logo in gold over it.
A question. why the belly of the aircraft is still painted gray.? It is still wearing china eastern colours on its belly..
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^ I think only the wing root fairing is in grey colour. Belly is in PIA colours.

Btw, is this A320 in single class layout with 180 seats or configured in two-class layout? The recent PIA tender sought narrow-body aircraft in two-class layout.

And is it going to operate revenue flight from Islamabad to Karachi?

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Why is the wing/body fairing not painted? Also the green/gold stripe is misaligned again and that awful moon/star on the engines needs to go and replaced with the Urdu PIA logo in gold or left blank.
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