PIA News:
At the 289th PIA Board of Directors meeting held recently at Karachi, it was decided that the airline will be expanding its long and short haul fleet as well as add new international destinations worldwide.
The destinations to be added to the PIA routes include Glasgow, Los Angles, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran, Istanbul, Zurich, Shanghai, Seoul, Almaty and Barcelona.
To cater to the increase in traffic, the plan calls to add 4 more B 777 aircraft, 10 new technology Turbo Props, three new generation medium capacity aircraft, 3 Airbus A310-300 Freighters and seven new technology narrow body aircraft of either A 319 / B 737-700 to replace their B 733 fleet.