DUBAI: Iran has suspended flights to Saudi Arabia for the year-round Umrah pilgrimage over allegations that Saudi security officers sexually assaulted two Iranian boys, Culture Minister Ali Jannati said on Monday...
"Until these guilty people are put on trial and punished, the Umrah will be stopped and Iranian flights will be suspended," the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) cited Jannati as saying...
Riyadh last week reopened its land border with Qatar and allocated seven flights of the Saudi national carrier to bring pilgrims from Doha, in a temporary lifting of a weeks-long boycott of its Gulf neighbour...
“Saudi Arabian Airlines director general Saleh al-Jasser has said that the airline has thus far been unable to schedule flights to transport Qatari pilgrims from Hamad International Airport in Doha,” SPA added...
Qatar on Monday denied banning Saudi Arabian flights from landing in the emirate to transport Muslim pilgrims to Makkah, refuting the accusation by authorities in Riyadh...
Riyadh last week reopened its land border with Qatar and allocated seven flights of the Saudi national carrier to bring pilgrims from Doha, in a temporary lifting of a weeks-long boycott of its Gulf neighbour...
KARACHI: Six flights of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) were cancelled on Saturday because of poor visibility caused by smog and other weather-related conditions in southern Punjab and upper Sindh region...
A statement issued by the PIA said that some more flights scheduled for Sunday had been cancelled...
KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines will operate three weekly flights from the metropolis to Bangkok from Sept 16, PIA chairman Irfan Illahi said on Friday...
He said the airline would operate Airbus A320 aircraft for direct flights between Karachi and Bangkok...
Over 70 domestic and international flights were delayed due to heavy smog at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport on Friday for the fourth day running, leaving thousands of passengers and their relatives inconvenienced, DawnNews reported...
Flights are expected to continue being delayed over the next few days, keeping in view weather conditions...
All foreign flights to and from the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Arbil will be suspended from Friday evening on Baghdad's orders, its airport director said, following a controversial independence referendum...
“All international flights without exception to and from Arbil will stop from 6:00 pm on Friday following a decision by the Iraqi cabinet and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi,” Talar Faiq Salih told AFP on Thursday...
KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is starting direct flights between Karachi and Najaf in Iraq, said PIA chief Nayyar Hayat on Thursday...
Briefing reporters at the soft launch of the flight operation, he said the national flag carrier would be operating three flights a week and the first flight was scheduled for departure from the metropolis on Sept 14...
Air China, China's national flag carrier, has decided to increase flights on the Beijing-Islamabad-Karachi route from four a week to seven starting October 29...
Air China had launched the route between China and Pakistan in October 2016, starting with three flights per week...
LAHORE: Four international PIA flights were delayed up to four hours on Wednesday after its staff went on strike against the ‘attitude’ of a senior official at the Allama Iqbal International Airport...
Four flights – PK-757 for Copenhagen and Oslo, PK-709 for Manchester, PK-270 for Delhi and PK-303 for Karachi were scheduled for their destinations in the morning...
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly adopted on Friday a resolution, asking the federal government to direct the management of PIA to begin direct flights from Quetta to Dubai and other Gulf states and Boeing flights from Quetta to Islamabad and Karachi...
They said at present limited ATR flights were being operated from Quetta to Islamabad and Karachi which were not enough to fulfil the requirement of the increasing number of...
KABUL: Commercial flights to Afghanistan’s besieged northern city of Kunduz have been suspended, an official said on Thursday, as hundreds of Taliban militants fought against government forces struggling to oust them from the city’s outskirts...
LAST week much hilarity ensued when the Times of India ran a story about a ‘spy’ pigeon, apparently from Pakistan, which had been detained in Pathankot in Indian Punjab...
The offending avian reportedly bore a “stamped message and had a wire-like object on its body”
The disruption prevented airport officials confirming flight schedules and ticket bookings, as a result of which at least eight flights domestic and international flights were cancelled earlier today, airport officials told DawnNews...
The cancelled flights include:DomesticInternationalAccording to ProPakistani, two other submarine cables, SEA-ME-WE 4 and TW1, have been offline since last month due to similar flaws, which has resulted...
The national flag carrier will use Airbus 320 for three weekly flights — Saturday, Monday and Thursday — from Jinnah International Airport Karachi to Bangkok...
Convenient connections have been made for passengers from other cities to board direct flights to Bangkok...