Sales of Tokyo flights tickets will end on February 16, 2019. Affected passengers will be accommodated in flights to be operated in January 2019.
Tokyo flights are being suspended temporarily due to shortage of aircraft and route losses, according to PIA spokesperson. The aircraft freed from Tokyo flights will be deployed on profitable routes.
PIA operates flights between Tokyo and Islamabad via Beijing with Boeing 777.
PIA began operating flights for Tokyo on November 1, 1969, with Boeing 707 that performed twice a week 'Pearl Route' flight from Dacca to Tokyo via Bangkok and Manila.
Abbas Ali wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:15 pmAccording to news sources:
PIA is going to end operating flights for Tokyo.
Sales of Tokyo flights tickets will end on February 16, 2019. Affected passengers will be accommodated in flights to be operated in January 2019.
Tokyo flights are being suspended temporarily due to shortage of aircraft and route losses, according to PIA spokesperson. The aircraft freed from Tokyo flights will be deployed on profitable routes.
PIA operates flights between Tokyo and Islamabad via Beijing with Boeing 777.
Abbas
This makes commercial sense, im not sure why PK was operating to NRT - there wouldnt be many ex-pats and I doubt there is enough trade between the two countires. My guess is it was an old route that they didnt want to give up, despite the economics not stacking up.
They should be going daily into PEK or at least 3 times a week from LHE and perhaps code-share with CA to complement their ISB-KHI-PEK route.
The suspension of PIA Tokyo flights will affect more than fifty thousand Pakistanis living in Japan. Members of Pakistani community holding placards staged demonstration near Tokyo Narita Airport against the closure of PIA flights.
Pakistan International continues Tokyo bookings from late-Jan 2019
Previously, Airlineroute reported reservation on/after 31JAN19 is closed, this is no longer correct. The airline operates 2 weekly Islamabad – Beijing – Tokyo Narita routing, with 777-200ER.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis Sayed Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari has taken notice of PIA Tokyo flights suspension reports.
Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) Japan chapter is planning to hold demonstration outside Pakistan embassy in Tokyo on January 11 to convey concerns of Pakistani community to Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Abbas Ali wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 12:57 pmPakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) Japan chapter is planning to hold demonstration ... to Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Just yesterday, there was discussion on a news channel about visa on arrival facility for Japanese for the promotion of religious tourism i.e. Buddhist places in Pakistan visited by Japanese.
