Shaheen Air withdraws from Leeds

Doesn’t seem to be any mention of such a ban on this E.U. list from last month.:confused:

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air-ban/list_en.htm

Hi

PIA are to commence there twice weekly Dircet flights from Leeds/Bradford to Islamabad with an Airbus A310-300 aircraft by late next month or early July.

All Shaheen Air’s forward flight bookings have also been transfered over to the PIA new route or have been offered MAN flights througout June.

Correct me if I am wrong, but A310s and 747s of PIA have been banned from European skies ???

Hi

PIA are to commence there twice weekly Dircet flights from Leeds/Bradford to Islamabad with an Airbus A310-300 aircraft by late next month or early July.

All Shaheen Air’s forward flight bookings have also been transfered over to the PIA new route or have been offered MAN flights througout June.

How were they doing @ LBA before they withdrew?

Yes you are right Grey Area.I should have checked.
I am looking at a very poor quality field length chart for all types using comparitive parrameters.
It is very difficult to read when I zoom in to the numbers.
So squinting at the chart again, A300-600,A310-300,777-200,767-200.
All seem to be similar.
I am sure EA mentioned the A330 when speaking to Airbus but this was about 8 years ago so maybe the plans were changed.

I have quoted this statement many times.
I was once went to a presentation at LBA .
The subject of PIA flights were mentioned.
Ed Anderson said the airport had consulted with Airbus who confirmed the the A330 would be able to reach Pakistan direct from LBA’s runways.
With what loads I dont know.
The Shaheen A310-300 has similar field performance to the A330-600 and the 777-200 I understand.

PIA do not operate the A330 and there is no such thing as an “A330-600”. Did you mean “A300-600″?

PIA do still own a number of A300s but these are in storage and are, in any case, not -600 models.

I have quoted this statement many times.
I was once went to a presentation at LBA .
The subject of PIA flights were mentioned.
Ed Anderson said the airport had consulted with Airbus who confirmed the the A330 would be able to reach Pakistan direct from LBA’s runways.
With what loads I dont know.
The Shaheen A310-300 has similar field performance to the A330-600 and the 777-200 I understand.

Hopefuly they will use a 777-200.
But im guessing an A310 like Shaheen Air.

Don’t rule out the possibility of PIA using coaches to MAN…… :diablo:

Hopefuly they will use a 777-200.
But im guessing an A310 like Shaheen Air.

Hi

PIA have today announced in the a Pakistan news that they are to replace the Shaheen Air flights to Leeds/Bradford later this year.

No dates or the scheduled have been announced though.

I believe they were using an A310 on the Leeds route?

They were using a fleet of old 732’s according to their Website

Tommy has been quiet, does he know the answer or not?:D

As RenFrew suggested, aircraft availability is probably the problem. They were using Turkish registered aircraft and under Pakistan rules, these had to be transferred to the Pakistan register within 90 days of start of operation. They haven’t, so the service stops and presumably they have not been able to obtain other aircraft with the summer season looming.

knew this would of happened.

May i suggest you read the article again Tommy before answering PMN!

knew this would of happened.

Care to explain further?!

Paul

Don’t know much about them..are they a Loco startup??

Recently discussed Steve, funny we should both mention Lo-co!:D

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=79842&highlight=LBA

knew this would of happened.

Don’t know much about them..are they a Loco startup??

They are a Pakistan based alternative to PIA. I guess these fleet problems will put paid to the rumour of a Glasgow service then…

Don’t know much about them..are they a Loco startup??