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Pakistan International Airlines
PIA Official Logo 2014.png
Founded 1946 (as Orient Airways)
Hubs Jinnah International Airport (Karachi)
Secondary hubs
Focus cities
  • Faisalabad International Airport
  • Peshawar International Airport
  • Quetta International Airport
  • Sialkot International Airport
  • Multan International Airport
  • Dubai International Airport
Frequent-flyer program PIA Awards Plus+
Subsidiaries
  • Roosevelt Hotel
  • Scribe Hotel
  • Skyrooms (Private) Limited
  • PIA Investments Limited
Fleet size 34 (+5 on order)
Destinations 59 incl.cargo
Company slogan "We Fly at The Right Attitude"
Parent company Ministry of Defence (Government of Pakistan)
Headquarters Jinnah International Airport
Karachi, Pakistan
Key people
Website www.piac.aero

Pakistan International Airlines Corporation, more commonly known as Pakistan International Airlines or PIA (Urdu: پی آئی اے or پاکستان انٹرنیشنل ایرلاینز), is the flag carrier and national airline of Pakistan.

Achievements and recognitions

  • First airline from an Asian country to fly the Super Constellation.
  • First Asian airline to operate a jet aircraft.
  • First Asian airline to be granted maintenance approval by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Air Registration Board, predecessor of the British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
  • First non-communist airline to fly to the People's Republic of China, and operate a service between Asia and Europe via Moscow.
  • First airline in Asia to induct the new technology Boeing 737-300 aircraft.
  • First airline in the world to operate scheduled helicopter services.
  • First airline to show in-flight movies on international routes.
  • The first airline in South Asia to introduce auto-ticketing facility.
  • The first airline in the world to fly to Tashkent, capital of the newly independent state of Uzbekistan.
  • First airline in the world to start Air Safari with jet aircraft.
  • First Asian airline to start flights to Oslo, the capital city of Norway.
  • First airline in the world to induct the Boeing 777-200LR, the world's longest range commercial airliner.
  • First airline in the world to take delivery of the Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner (Longer Range Variant).
  • Pakistan International Airlines Flight Services Department was awarded the ISO 9001:2000 certification award during May 2006.
  • First airline in Pakistan to operate a flight with an all female crew at command and in the cabin.
  • First airline in the world to operate the Boeing 777-200ER, 777-200LR and 777-300ER altogether - all the three variants currently available on the market.
  • PIA Flight Kitchens in Karachi were awarded the HACCP Certification.

Crashes

Images for kids

  • U. Win being received at Calcutta airport

    Passengers and bystanders with an Orient Airways Douglas DC-3 on the occasion of the arrival of the Burmese High Commissioner to India at Calcutta, circa 1947

  • Boeing 720-040B AP-AMG PIA LHR 24.06.62 edited-2

    A Boeing 720 at Heathrow Airport on 24 June 1962

  • PIA Head Office, Lahore

    Pakistan International Airlines' regional office, located in Lahore

  • PIA Douglas DC-8 Gilliand

    PIA Douglas DC-8-21, leased in 1977–1978

  • Airbus A310-308, Pakistan International Airlines - PIA AN0562544

    PIA Airbus A310-300 landed at Germany, Frankfurt Airport, 25 April 2004

  • Airbus A321-231, Pakistan International Airlines - PIA (Inter Airlines) AN1157696

    PIA Airbus A321 taking off from Islamabad Airport (2006)

  • PIA Boeing 747-300 Asuspine-5

    PIA Boeing 747–300 taking off from the Multan International Airport for a Hajj flight, 28 October 2010

  • PIA Legacy Tail

    PIA's 1980s legacy tail, which became an identity for the airline

  • Boeing 747-300 (PIA) (5299437361)

    A PIA Boeing 747–300 painted in a Frontier livery

  • PIA Markhor Livery

    In 2018, Pakistan's national animal Markhor was chosen to be introduced as the brand identity on aircraft tail. However, later the Supreme Court of Pakistan took suo motu action and barred PIA from using the Markhor as brand identity; only one Airbus A320 was painted in the livery.

  • PIA offical logo

    Logo of PIA with Kashmiri Markhor depicted, used in 2018

  • Boeing 707-340C, Pakistan International Airlines Cargo - PIA AN0633118

    PIA Boeing 707C operating Cargo aircraft taxiing at Charles de Gaulle Airport, France on 14 August 1994

  • Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F009536-0002, Staatspräsident von Pakistan in München

    Callsign "PAKISTAN 001" carrying the President on PIA's Boeing 707. Photographed at Munich Airport in West Germany, circa 1961.

  • PIA FLIGHT 705 2

    The memorial tablet at the crash site in Cairo for those who died on PIA Flight 705 on 20 May 1965

  • Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 Crashsite

    Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 Crashsite in Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport on 28 September 1992

See also

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