PIA 'likely' to suspend Karachi to Mumbai flights: sources

[third eye]

http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/paki...may-suspend-flights-to-mumbai-reports-1689878

MUMBAI: Pakistan's national carrier PIA may suspend flights to Mumbai from next week, reports say.

The PIA or Pakistan International Airlines has two flights a week between Mumbai and Karachi.

It is the only airline flying between the two countries as no Indian airline flies to Pakistan. PIA also operates flights from Karachi and Lahore to Delhi.

PIA had cut down its flights because of poor traffic amid increasing strain between the two countries over the past year.

Relations between India and Pakistan have taken another sharp plunge after two soldiers were killed and mutilated in Kashmir earlier this week by Pakistanis at the Line of Control. India has vowed retribution, with the army saying it will respond to the barbaric act at a "time and place of its choosing".

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/pakistan-cuts-down-pia-flights-from-karachi-to-delhi-mumbai.456577/

 

[Leviza]

Good job, why PIA have not suspended yet .. Any ways If indain army keep on killing innocent kashmiri public and Pakistan should not and cannot give any guarantee of any nature...

 

[Devil Soul]

PIA 'likely' to suspend Karachi to Mumbai flights: sources
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[ashok321]

Pakistan airlines may suspend flights to India :

 

[Skywalker]

Good no reason to go to terrorist land, needs to block air India if they are still flying to our airports.

 

[Soumitra]

No problem. Please close the flights. Wont affect us in any way

 

[third eye]

Good job, why PIA have not suspended yet .. Any ways If indain army keep on killing innocent kashmiri public and Pakistan should not and cannot give any guarantee of any nature...

The suspension is for economic reasons.

 

[Clutch]

No problem. Please close the flights. Wont affect us in any way

I agree... wouldn't effect us either... it's a good move... just hope the flight of Indians to the Pakistan Defence Forum also stops... they just keep coming here.

 

[Laozi]

PIA to suspend its only flight to Mumbai from Karachi from May 11
PIA suspends its Mumbai-Karachi flight from 11 May without specifying any reason

PTI

Apart from the prevailing hostilities between India and Pakistan, the suspension of service “may be due to commercial reasons as well,” a PIA official said. Photo: AFP
Mumbai: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), which operates a weekly flight between Mumbai and Karachi, will suspend its service from 11 May. The national flag carrier of Pakistan operates the flight on Thursday.

“Pakistan International Airlines, in a communication to authorities concerned, has said that its Karachi-Mumbai flight will not be open for sale (bookings) from 11 May,” a PIA official said. However, the PIA communication did not specify the reason for suspension of its flight service, a company official said. “Apart from the current situation (prevailing tension between India-Pakistan), the suspension of the service might be due to commercial reasons as well,” the official said.

The airline did not operate its service on Thursday as well, he said. However, the Pakistan airline had informed the relevant authorities about the non-operation of service on 4 May in a communication last month, the official said.


http://www.livemint.com/Companies/2...nly-flight-to-Mumbai-from-Karachi-from-M.html

 

[Bhupendra Singh_Cyan]

Okay bye bye PIA, have a safe journey.

 

[Tshering22]

Good no reason to go to terrorist land, needs to block air India if they are still flying to our airports.

No they don't.

Most of such bilateral rights are un-utilised by Air India.

 

[fitpOsitive]

PIA is suspending but is Shaheen air and Indus Air and other parasites like that are also suspending their operations to India? I don't know why I am smelling corruption in all this.

 

[Fledgingwings]

PIA Zindabad!

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

Next step(s) are for PIA to suspend operations to their other offered destinations.

 

[Skywalker]

PIA is suspending but is Shaheen air and Indus Air and other parasites like that are also suspending their operations to India? I don't know why I am smelling corruption in all this.

No other Pakistani airlines goes to India.