Pakistan Worldwide Airways (PIA) has run its first business flight to Kabul, Afghanistan, for the reason that Taliban took over the nation final month, a spokesman for the airline says.
The Boeing 777 with the flight quantity PK 6429 departed from Islamabad, Pakistan, as a business flight chartered by the World Financial institution, carrying officers from the financial institution and journalists, airline spokesman Abdullah H. Khan stated.
The plane later returned to Islamabad.
This was the primary PIA flight to the touch down in Kabul after the international troop withdrawal and large-scale evacuation of individuals from Afghanistan ended on August 31.
“It was a particular chartered business flight,” Khan instructed Reuters. “We additionally accommodated different people who needed to depart Afghanistan since we had house on the airplane.”
This operation is essential for the PIA and the entire world, PIA’s Chief Working Officer Arshad Malik stated in a press release.
“We hope that we will resume a whole operation quickly,” he stated.
Qatar Airways ran a chartered flight from Kabul to Doha on Sept. 9 carrying about 113 individuals.