Additional flights between India and Pakistan soon

New Delhi: The air link between India and Pakistan is likely to be improved with additional flights and destinations and civil aviation officials of the two countries are expected to meet shortly to discuss the issue, official sources said here on Sunday citing an understanding reached at the foreign secretary-level talks in Islamabad five days ago.
The Indian Airlines is presently operating one flight a week from Delhi to Lahore while Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has four flights a week on this sector. PIA is also flying between New Delhi-Karachi and Mumbai-Karachi sectors.
This is quite inadequate considering an earlier understanding to have 12 flights from each side per week, the sources said.
Officials of the civil aviation ministries of the two countries will discuss how the situation can be improved, the sources said, adding that the two sides would try to work out an arrangement for at least seven flights a week.
The sources said that the two sides would also discuss the possibility of adding new places for air link, adding that the move was aimed at improving people-to-people contact and better travel facilities between the two countries.
19/03/07 Daily Times, Pakistan

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Categories: Foreign Mar 2007