{"id":6285,"date":"2020-04-24T17:03:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T17:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=6285"},"modified":"2020-04-24T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T17:06:46","slug":"first-time-in-history-pia-operates-flight-to-melbourne-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/first-time-in-history-pia-operates-flight-to-melbourne-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"First Time in History ; PIA Operates Flight to Melbourne Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6286\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Australia-Pakistan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Australia-Pakistan.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Australia-Pakistan-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Australia-Pakistan-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Lahore, 24 April 2020: PIA relief flight for <strong>Melbourne<\/strong>, Australia carrying 300 passengers left Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>This is the <strong>first time<\/strong> in the history of PIA that a flight is being operated to Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The passengers of the flight were assisted by <strong>PIA<\/strong> Station Manager Ali Asghar Zaidi and his team.<br \/>\nPIA is making all efforts to operate relief flights in difficult times due covid 19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The passengers thanked CEO PIA, Air Marshal Arshad Malik and appreciated PIA and for operating relief flight to Melbourne and hoped that this could be made a regular flight by PIA.<\/p>\n<p>This direct flight to Melbourne is of the longest duration operated by PIA with flight flying time of 14 hours .<\/p>\n<p>The return flight PK 8963 will land back at Lahore on Sunday 26 April .<\/p>\n<p>Two other PIA relief flights PK 8222 and PK 8224 landed at Faisalabad Airport from Dubai bringing back 142 and 140 passengers respectively . The passengers were assisted by PIA District Manager, Shahid Hussain and PIA station Manager Saleem Iqbal and other PIA officers of Faisalabad Region.<\/p>\n<p>The returning passengers raised slogan Pakistan and PIA Zindabad .-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, 24 April 2020: PIA relief flight for Melbourne, Australia carrying 300 passengers left Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore on Friday evening. This is the first time in the history of PIA that a flight is being operated to Melbourne. The passengers of the flight were assisted by PIA Station Manager Ali Asghar Zaidi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,91],"tags":[321,323,324,325,48,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6288,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions\/6288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}