3 PIA flights from Dubai set to repatriate Pakistanis today

3 PIA flights from Dubai set to repatriate Pakistanis today

Coronavirus: Three special PIA flights from Dubai set to repatriate over 500 stranded Pakistanis today. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will repatriate more than 500 stranded Pakistani citizens in the UAE through 3 special flights from Dubai to Faisalabad and Karachi today, Khaleej Times has learnt.. Two special PIA flight are schedule to depart to Faisalabad at 10.30am and 4.30pm, carrying 140 passengers each on Airbus A320 while the airline's 777 will take off from Dubai to Karachi at 12.30pm to repatriate more than 250 people.. "PIA is ready to operate more special flights to facilitate stranded Pakistani citizens in the UAE as it noticed higher demand from Dubai to Peshawar and Islamabad," Shahid Mughal, regional manager for UAE at PIA, told Khaleej Times on Sunday.. PIA commenced its special flight operation on April 18 and has completed more than two dozen departures from Dubai to Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad and Multan to repatriate around 6,000 people so far.. Another 2,000 were repatriated through 12 UAE airlines including Emirates, Air Arabia and Flydubai.. "We have scheduled 4 more flights to Faisalabad, Peshawar and Lahore this week.. Around 280 passengers will be repatriated to Faisalabad on Airbus A320 on May 14 while