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[edit] Airline eliminated all intermediate stops on flights to the United States?

Salam guys, it seems no one has added any comments here before, so I'll be the first to leave my words of wisdom here :D I'm removing the following line from the "History" section: "In 1999 the airline eliminated all intermediate stops on flights to the United States, hoping to attract more North American passengers."

All flights to USA take at least one stop (mostly Manchester, probably all stops between Pakistan and USA are at Manchester). Please do your homework before posting anything :) Waqas.usman 12:28, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

This is true.The stops done for security purposes due to American government concerns.American security intelligence services want to identify all passengers before they enter the USA.Nadirali 04:25, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

So, on the George Bush Intercontinental Airport article, why isn't Manchester listed as a destination? I have removed Manchester as a destination on the O'Hare International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport article. Can someone give me an explanation? Bucs2004 21:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adding Airline Infobox

I've just added infobox, and therefore had to move the two jumbo pics downward. Waqas.usman 15:18, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Manchester International Airport

Does Manchester International Airport (MAN) really deserve to be a focus city? Just becuase it offers flights there, doesn't really mean it's a focus city. -- Kilo-Lima 16:30, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Except for the fact it's the via point between Pakistan and the US[1]. As you can see from the link, the airport gets 37 flights per week, compared to 10 at LHR, 5 at STN and 5 at FRA. If you compare to another of PIA's focus cities Peshawar, the numbers (45) are fairly similar. Just my two cents DannyM 14:21, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Major re-organization of the article

I have reorganized the article because under the heading [The 21st Century] a lot of stuff was posted over the time without much organization.

I have separated "The 21st Century" from "History" and pasted it as the main heading. Also combined the 777 orders related paragraphs together, and created the following sub-headings: 2.1 Boeing 777 Orders

2.2 French ATR to Replace Fokker

2.3 All-Female Cockpit Crew Flight

2.4 777 "C" Check Overhaul at Ispahani

2.5 Delivery of the Worldliner 777-200LR

I've thought over the sub-headings and revised some of them a few times, please update any of these if you have more appropriate sub-headings. Waqas.usman 16:54, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Pakistan International Airlines destinations

All the domestic and international destinations of Pakistan International Airlines are located at Pakistan International Airlines destinations. Please do not add destinations on the main PIA page.

Siddiqui 12:21, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

All planned service's information can added on main page destination section as a brief till its confirmed, there is no hard and fast rule for this. But since a silly rule here requires sources to validate this, which are not available, therefore I cannot restore the deleted stuff.

[edit] Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

maru (talk) contribs 04:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History section

There seemed to be lot of data that was not put into proper english and there were far too many subheadings within this section. I have added more data and have worded to make it flow and put in some recent news about the ban. --Fast track 18:40, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


Factual error: World record of Boeing 720B flight was delivery flight SEA - LHR - KHI , NOT as KHI - LHR in original article. Pilot was senior Capt Abdullah Baig. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kslall8765 (talk • contribs) 14:21, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


There seems to be an unwieldy mixture of British and American spelling used in the article (eg organisation vs organization). What should be the standard policy keeping in mind that PIA is a Commonwealth airline?

Kslall8765 (talk) 13:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] PIA parent company

I have changed the parent company to the Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, and have changed the lead paragraph to Pakistan International Airlines Corporation. Pakistan International Airlines has the legal name of Pakistan International Airlines Corporation. This is similar to Qantas Airways having the legal name of Qantas Airways Limited, Singapore Airlines being known as Singapore Airlines Limited, etc, etc. WP:MOS tells us that the lead paragraph should show this legal name. The parent company of PIAC is the entity which has enough voting shares in the company to be able to dictate board decisions, as per the annual report which has been referenced in the infobox, this is the Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, which of course is the Pakistani government. --Russavia 14:58, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Urdu writing in logo

What does the urdu writing in the logo mean? Maikel 16:42, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

The Urdu writing is a transliteration of "PIA" into Urdu. (82.178.133.128 (talk) 14:12, 16 December 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:PIAAwardsLogo.gif

Image:PIAAwardsLogo.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 15:57, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] PEK and BKK

Recently, PEK and BKK have been added to the airline's infox as PIA's focus cities. What makes them focus cities? They just offer flights to their hubs and 1 non-hub destination. 125.34.65.92 (talk) 08:45, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Please note that code PEK now stands for Capital Airport itself, code for the city in general is now BJS

Kslall8765 (talk) 16:00, 7 June 2008 (UTC)