PIA to Dry Lease Narrow-body and Turboprop Aircraft

[Amaad Lone]

Nine A320s is a good start, but I wonder if passengers would go for a five hour flight on a narrow body jet versus the wide body option that other airlines offer.

For example Bangkok competing with Thai A330-300s or flying to Saudi Arabia, UAE where the competition is with 777 and A330.

PIA needs to offer a great economy class product to win back passengers. 162 seat all economy layout with good seat pitch, decent fares, and good frequency will increase PIA share.

[Abdullah]

Newly inducted PIA aircraft at JIAP Karachi.

AP-BLU A320;


AP-BLT A320 in full white;


AP-BKW ATR 72-500;


AP-BKW ATR 72-500;


Source: MD.

[CoyBoy]

This ATR has got the pointy corner on the curved stripe, different painter?

[Abbas Ali]

Nice photos from Karachi - thank you Umar for sharing.

These recently inducted ATRs and A320s must have considerably lowered PIA average fleet age.

Abbas

[Amaad Lone]

PIA fleet excluding some of the grounded planes that wont fly again.

777-340ER (3)
777-240ER (4)
777-240LR (2)
A310-300 (6) BEG BEQ BEU BGO BGP BGR
A320-214 (9)
ATR72-500 (5)
ATR42-500 (6)

35 aircraft the average age is nearly 10.5 years.

[PIA ap-bkz]

Are these two a320s painted and have the atrs started to fly

[747-300]

Amazing shots Which camera used ?

[Abbas Ali]

PIA ATR 72-500 with French registration F-WNUD sticker photographed at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, France, on June 22, 2015.


ATR.72 PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES F-WNUD 22 06 15 TLS by L'AMI DU TARMAC, on Flickr

Pakistani registration AP-BKV is reserved for this ATR.

Abbas

[Sahil Ali]

Beautiful!

[Abdullah]

Are these two a320s painted and have the atrs started to fly

AP-BLU, AP-BLT, and AP-BKW on hold, reason unknown.

Amazing shots Which camera used ?

As of my information; photos taken by cell phone.

[Sahil Ali]

Reason behind AP-BLU and AP-BLT being on hold could be the shortage of crew. If I'm not wrong there are not more than 4-5 first officers per aircraft right now flying the fleet of 320's which is half of the required number of crew on these aircraft.

[aviator773]

Great now they have surplus aircraft but with shortage of crew. =D>

[Abbas Ali]

PIA ATR 72-500 registratoin AP-BKV delivery flight June 24/25 route:

Toulouse-Francazal Airport, France -> Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, France -> Tekirdag Corlu Airport, Turkey -> Tehran Mehrabad International Airport, Iran -> Jinnah International Air Port (JIAP), Karachi, Pakistan.

Abbas

[CoyBoy]

Deliveries through Tehran all of a sudden, is it due to easing of western sactions on Iran?

[cashy]

AP-BKV on delivery flight

AP bkv by cashy2011, on Flickr