PIA axe Lahore flights
13.01.11
Glasgow Airport will lose its direct flights to Pakistan this month after a shake-up by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) that could see it expand its other UK routes , ABTN reports. The airline will axe its twice weekly Glasgow - Lahore flights on January 22 following an appraisal of its loss-making operations in Europe.
The decision to axe Glasgow has been linked with competition from Emirates, which operates daily flights from Glasgow to Dubai with onward connections to Pakistan. A spokesman for the airline told ABTN that flights from Pakistan to Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds Bradford were profitable and could be expanded. It will also continue to operate with its Manchester - New York route.
The spokesman said: ‘In the UK there are no other closures apart from Glasgow, which did not meet its operating costs. We tried to linger for a year, but it did not improve.’ He added that any expansion on UK routes would be in time for the summer timetable, which starts at the end of March.
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