British Airways resumes its flight operations to Pakistan after a decade

• Zulfi Bukhari & Thomas Drew played key role in the resumption of British Airways flight operations in Pakistan

• Many other international airlines also plan to start their services soon in Pakistan

LONDON / ISLAMABAD (Monday, 3^rd June, 2019) – British Airways has today resumed its flight operations to Pakistan after over a decade of suspension of its operations to Pakistan.

British Airways’ Boeing 787 Dreamliner departed from Heathrow, London, with 240 passengers on board, and touched down at Islamabad International Airport (IIA) at 9:15am this morning.

The airline will fly thrice weekly between London and Islamabad.

Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Adviser to Prime Minister on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood, Special Assistant on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfi Bukhari and senior officials of the Aviation Division and British High Commission welcomed the passengers at the airport.

Extraordinary security, including more than 600 police, Quick Response Force units and snipers were in place at the time of the flight’s arrival.

The same aircraft will depart for Heathrow at 11:10am with passengers on board from Islamabad.

Credit of the resumption of the British Airways goes to Zulfi Bukhari the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Overseas Pakistanis and Thomas Drew CMG the British High Commissioner to Pakistan – they both have been very keen to revive the British Airways flight operations to Pakistan and had been working hard in this aspect with the concerned authorities and now the efforts have been realized.

Following suite the British Airways many other international airlines also plan to start their services soon in Pakistan, as per sources.