PIA to Dry Lease Narrow-body and Turboprop Aircraft

[Abbas Ali]

* Today ATR 72-500 construction number 1036 ferried under French registration F-WNUF from Toulouse-Francazal Airport, France, to Sondenborg Airport, Denmark.


* On April 17, ATR 72-500 construction number 1037 was ferried under French registration F-WNUG from Toulouse-Francazal Airport, France, to Dusseldorf Moenchengladbach Airport, Germany.

Both aircraft offered by Abric Leasing Limited were accepted by PIA bid evaluation report.

Abbas

[Sahil Ali]

That's a great news. So 4 ATR'S already confirmed that PIA is getting by ABRIC leasing. I think the remaining one ATR 72 would also be leased by ABRIC.

[Abbas Ali]

Probably Pakistani aircraft registrations AP-BKW and AP-BKX reserved for the two ATRs (c/n 1036 & 1037)?

Abbas

[Sahil Ali]

Most probably yes abbas bhai. Another ATR 72 AP-BKY expected to join PIA fleet by next week and 4th A320 too.

[Abbas Ali]

^ Thank you Sahil for the info.

Following photo shows ATR 72-500 construction number 1037 with French registration F-WNUG at Dusseldorf Moenchengladbach Airport, Germany, on April 17, 2015.


PIA | ATR 72 | F-WNUG | MGL 17.04.2015 by judith.dahmen, on Flickr

Photos of this ATR wearing PIA livery should be expected in coming days.

Abbas

[PIA ap-bkz]

Nice to see new airplanes in the fleet ,when will the 6 a320 's come which were dry leased

[Abbas Ali]

PIA ATR 72-500 registration F-WNUC / AP-BKY construction number 994 expected to arrive in Pakistan on April 29.



Abbas

[Sahil Ali]

Has ATR 72 AP-BKZ started it's revenue flights for PIA or not and if it didn't then it's already been a week and a half since it has joined PIA's fleet so whatsup with the delay?

[Hashmax]

BKZ is flying scheduled revenue flights .....

[Sahil Ali]

Copied that. Cheers!

[aviator773]

Performed Lahore - Multan today.

[faiq]

Its not showing on flight radar. Don't tell me they took out ADS-B transponder.

[Sahil Ali]

Common aircraft models that usually do not have an ADS-B transponder and are not visible on Flightradar24 (within ADS-B coverage):

"Air Force One"
Antonov AN-124 and AN-225
ATR 42, 72 (except most new deliveries of ATR 72-600)
Boeing 707, 717, 727, 737-200, 747-100, 747-200, 747SP
BAe Jetstream 31 and 32
All Bombardier CRJ models
All Bombardier Dash models
All CASA models
All Dornier models
All Embraer models (except most new deliveries of Embraer E190)
De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
Fokker 50
McDonnell Douglas DC-9, MD-8x, MD-90
Saab 340 and 2000
Most helicopters
Most older aircraft
Most business jets
Most military aircraft
Most propeller aircraft


Source: Flightradar24

[Sahil Ali]

I was just concerned cause there was nothing on the flightradar.

[Sahil Ali]

Cockpit images of PIA ATR 72-500 AP-BKZ parked in Line Maintenance II Hanger.