PIA to Dry Lease Narrow-body and Turboprop Aircraft

[bigfish]

A small step in the right directions.

I would be posting pictures when PIA inducts A330-200s or 787-800s and deploys them on flights to:

Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Rome, Athens, Istanbul, Barcelona, Chicago, Washington DC, Houston, Manila Hong Kong, Shanghai, Bangkok, Singapore, Jakarta, Nairobi, Dar es Salam, Kano, Colombo, Male, Teheran, Baghdad, Amman Beruit and so on.

Unfortunately we haven't even seen the 5 x B777 order come to fruition yet.
How can we even mention 787.

At the moment they're only bringing in small/domestic/regional aircraft into fleet.
Nobody has mentioned anything from PIA about widebodies (other than to lease for hajj)

[Abdullah]

AP-BKZ ATR 72-500 cabin, let's take a look;

Not sure about exact number of seats, because these photos were found on a Facebook page.

[Abbas Ali]

^ Apparently it has retained seventy seats in single-class layout of UTair-Ukraine.

Note exactly same seats in passenger cabin of UTair-Ukraine ATR 72-500 registration UR-UTI (aircraft construction number 1000) in photo on following link:

Photo link: http://www.airteamimages.com/atr-72_UR- ... large.html

Btw, ATR 72-500 construction number 1000 was also accepted by PIA bid evaluation report.

Abbas

[Sahil Ali]

PIA ATR 72-500 AP-BKZ



Source: Pakistan International Airlines (Photos)

[Abbas Ali]

^ Are they changing cabin seating configuration?

Abbas

[Abdullah]

@Abbas Ali

No change yet in seating configuration. AP-BKZ not being seen at JIAP, Karachi.

[TAILWIND]

The fwd fuselage is covered with some plastic sheet, perhaps some painting work on BKZ?

[riz]

Its for protection from bird Poop.

[PIA ap-bkz]

Beautiful interior Has it begun flying. What about the second atr72 ap-bky (fw-unc)

[Sahil Ali]

On a very lighter note u are PIA ap-bkz u should know better

[PIA ap-bkz]

On a very lighter note u are PIA ap-bkz u should know better

Haha lolz, I'm a new user, not that much aware, will tell

[Sahil Ali]

Welcome aboard!

[PIA ap-bkz]

Welcome aboard!

Thanks a lot,I hope that I'll make good friends with all the members

[mac777]

as per flightradar ap-bkz has not started revenue flights yet.
any news of when additional a320 will be joining?

[Sahil Ali]

Another ATR 72 expected to join PIA fleet soon and an A320 too.