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Pakistan, which has been seeking high technology aircraft for the last two decades, said yesterday it hoped to start joint production with China from 2007 of multirole fighter jets. The first four JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft are expected to be introduced into the air force some time in 2006, said Air Vice Marshal Shahid Latif, [...]

Shaheen Air International (SAI), Pakistan’s private airline will soon launch a new flight for Lahore from Doha. SAI commenced its operations in Pakistan in 1993 under the aegis of Shaheen Foundation, a welfare trust of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) personnel. SAI is the first private carrier of Pakistan which was honoured with the title of [...]

Air blue under its Child Enrichment Programme took the students of four different private and NGO schools of the City to Nawabshah on a short trip to give them chance to enjoy the air journey. The students mainly belonged to middle class families and were very happy and enjoyed this short travel. Air blue has [...]

US adventurer Steve Fossett was approaching the coast of Pakistan late Tuesday after overcoming a navigation equipment problem that threatened to derail his historic bid to make the first non-stop flight around the world without refueling. The GlobalFlyer was over the Arabian Sea heading east towards Karachi, Pakistan at speeds of around 340 knots (390 [...]

Fast-moving Pakistan has stolen a march on India in civil aviation by announcing the deployment of the world’s longest range commercial airplane, the Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner, which can fly non-stop from the United States to virtually any city in Asia. The plane was unveiled on Tuesday at the Boeing plant in Everett, Washington, before a [...]

Airblue has become the first private sector airline in Pakistan to start operation on socio-economic routes with commencement of Karachi-Nawabshah-Karachi flights from February 26. The Air Blue is also introducing Karachi-Quetta-Karachi route from February 28. With flights to these two destinations, the airline domestic network will stand expanded to six as it is already operating [...]

A South African company will buy five Mushshak trainer aircraft from the state-run aviation firm Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), Online news agency reported. Following a deal between Uni Group Holdings and PAC, inspectors from the South African Civil Aviation Authority visited Pakistan in October to satisfy themselves about the quality and standard of the aircraft. [...]

The Jeffrey International Group of UK has announced commercial air operation for Pakistan. The first maiden flight of Global Spirit Airlines will land in Islamabad on July 6, 2005. Global Spirit Airlines will be one of two western airlines to Pakistan and the first ever-British Pakistani airline created, he said. It will also be the [...]

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced to start e-ticketing facility and has thus became the first airline of the country providing the facility. Using this facility, now tickets can be booked at PIA’ s website through credit cards also. Talking to a private TV channel, PIA Chairman Ahmed Saeed on Saturday said PIA would start [...]

The private sector airline Airblue’s Commercial Director, S. Nasir Ali – said the airline, is expanding its network by adding Peshawar to its route’s network. Airblue was launched on June 18 this year with its high-tech A320 aircraft, flying domestic sectors to Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. Nasir said the airline started with a fully computerised [...]