Passengers Protest Over Delay Suffered by PIA Flight PK-370

[Abbas Ali]

According to news sources, passengers at Karachi Airport staged protest against delay suffered by PIA Karachi to Islamabad flight PK-370.

The flight scheduled to depart at 8:00 PM on August 24 is now expected to depart at 12:45 AM on August 25.

PIA has apologized to passengers for the flight delayed due to technical reasons.

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

Flight PK-370 passengers protesting at Karachi Airport. Upset passengers of PK-370 include those who had arrived in Karachi at 3:17 PM aboard PIA flight PK-897 from Kuala Lumpur performed by airline's Boeing 777-300ER registration AP-BMS.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/pk897

PK-370 is now expected to depart from Karachi at 2:00 AM on August 25, according to a number of news channels.

Seems PIA Airbus A320 registration AP-BLS is/was going to perform flight PK-370.

AP-BLS has landed at Lahore Airport at 8:38 PM as flight PK-306 from Karachi.


Source: flightradar24.com

According to a news channel, flight PK-370 is delayed to due to shortage of aircraft in PIA fleet.

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

PIA Airbus A320 registration AP-BLS departed from Karachi at 1:06 AM as flight PK-370 to Islamabad with a delay of five hours.

Earlier, AP-BLS had arrived in Karachi at 11:37 PM as flight PK-307 from Lahore

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bls

Abbas

[Airborne]

Is that even news making headway??? All over the world rolling delays happen......but somehow we are hell bent upon ridiculing PIA!!!!

[uzkt01]

This shortage of aircraft is there for over a year. Why don't they lease a few A320s. I don't think they are that expensive.