Meanwhile, the Pakistan International Airlines will start its special relief flights to UK on Sunday (today), under the new plan of operating daily flights from Islamabad and Lahore for London, Manchester and Birmingham.
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The British High Commission thanked Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi for giving approval for a series of repatriation flights for UK nationals. The flights would land at airports in London and Manchester. Due to quarantine arrangements put in place at Pakistan’s airports, no crew members or passengers would be disembarking the aircraft on landing. The flight operation would continue from April 20 to 26 from the Islamabad airport while one flight per day from the Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore, from April 21 to 23.Īll the chartered aircraft will be observing the standard operating procedure (SOPs) set out by the health authorities of the UK. The flights are scheduled to start from April 20 and will continue for seven days.įollowing a request from the British High Commission, Islamabad, for chartered flights to repatriate British nationals, the ministry of foreign affairs directed the Aviation Division to facilitate the operation of chartered flights at Islamabad and Lahore airports. On the other hand, the Pakistan government has granted permission to the UK to operate 10 chartered flights to repatriate 2,500 stranded British citizens from Pakistan - seven flights of Qatar Airways chartered by the UK authorities would operate from Islamabad while the remaining three will operate from Lahore. At both Karachi and Islamabad airports, Pakistani health authorities may conduct health screening and deny boarding to any passenger on observing fever or flu-like symptoms, the US authorities informed their citizens. The US embassy would establish their facilitation service counters in the concourse area of the airports in coordination with airport managers concerned. PIA announces daily flights for UK on discounted fareĪccording to sources, it would cost approximately $1,000 from Karachi and $1,450 from Islamabad per person. If seats in these flights are declined, although these flights are not free, then they will have to stay in Pakistan until the commercial flight operation is resumed. The US authorities have intimated to Americans that they would be final flights arranged by the US government. The US mission in Pakistan has started contacting its citizens to confirm seats on the US government’s chartered flights departing from Karachi and Islamabad for Washington Dulles Airport next week. Earlier, 785 American citizens had been repatriated to the United States via three chartered flights during last week from Islamabad and Karachi.
This will be the second batch of chartered flights by the US authorities to bring back their citizens from Pakistan since the country has been under lockdown due to outbreak of Covid-19. None of the US citizens departing from Pakistan will be diplomatic staff. RAWALPINDI: The United States of America and the United Kingdom will repatriate its citizens from Pakistan via 16 chartered flights, while the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has started its daily relief flights from Lahore and Islamabad for three cities of the UK offering discounted fare.Īccording to sources, the United States will operate six chartered flights to repatriate its more than 2,200 citizens from Islamabad and Karachi to Washington Dulles Airport during this week.
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