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Pakistan International Airlines Corporation commonly known as Pakistan International Airlines or PIA is the flag carrier airline of Pakistan. The airline, with its head office on the grounds of Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. Its main bases are Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad/Rawalpindi.

Pakistan International Airlines was set up on 1 March 1955, after Orient Airways merged with the government's proposed new airline. During the same year the airline opened its first international service, from Karachi to Heathrow Airport via Cairo International Airport and Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport in Fiumicino, Italy, using three newly acquired Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellations. The DC-3s continued operating the domestic services in Pakistan. In May 1956, PIA ordered two further Super Lockheed Constellations of the latest L-1049H version and five Vickers Viscount 815.

PIA operates to 98 destinations as of August 2024.

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Until 1971 PIA also served various places as domestic stations in what was East Pakistan. During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the PIA operated a series of chartered flights to and from Australia, South Africa, South Korea, UK and the Middle East among others to transport stranded citizens. On 30 June 2020, the European Air Safety Agency banned PIA from operating in Europe for 6 months.

References

1. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 10 April 2007. p. 61.
2. "PIA – Origin Specific Flight Schedule". www.piac.com.pk.
3. "2006 route map".
4. "PIA – About PIA". www.piac.com.pk.
5. "1981 route map".
6. "1971 route map".
7. "PIA's Central Asian routes". Archived from the original on 28 March 2012.
8. "History of PIA – Pakistan International Airlines". www.historyofpia.com.
9. "PIA Starts New Flights to Fujairah". arynews.tv. 25 October 2021.
10. "History of PIA – Pakistan International Airlines". www.historyofpia.com.
11. "1992 route map".
12. "PIA resumed flights from Lahore to Tashkent".
13. "Destinations list 1993".
14. Ali, Waqar (22 April 2020). "More than 600 Pakistanis in Australia want to return home but only one flight available". SBS News. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
15. "LIVE: Sindh govt indecisive on sealing 11 UCs in Karachi as national COVID-19 tally crosses 5,000". The Express Tribune. 26 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020. A special PIA flight left for South Africa with 300 passengers on board.
16. "PIA special flight departs for Australia". ARY News. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.

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