New Livery Design On PIA Aircraft With National Flag

First B 777 Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) with refurbished livery adorned with National Flag started operations. MD PIA Captain Aijaz Haroon operated the flight Karachi-Islamabad-Karachi Friday morning and landed PK 301 at Jinnah terminal 12 noon.

PIA spokesman said that PIA every 5-year carries out major maintenance and refurbishing of its existing fleet. New livery design has been approved by PIA Board of Directors under which 39 aircrafts of the fleet are being decorated with the National Flag and Pakistan will be boldly written on the belly to be readable at lower heights during landing and take-off. Golden stripe added to the existing streak of Beige and Green colors.

He said that numerous requests of passengers, Pakistani expatriates and citizens of the country were sent to the airline management leading to Product Improvement Plan; the livery change is being done in-house by PIA’s engineering department and livery design will be changed during scheduled grounding of aircraft at the time of major maintenance checks.

As per the airlines maintenance program, all aircraft are repainted after approximately after 5 years, and in due process the livery will be changed gradually over a period of one and a half years time after which the entire fleet of PIA which includes B777s, B747s, A310s and ATR42 aircraft will have fresh design.

PIA spokesman said there would be no major financial impact on the airline being routine maintenance; as compared to the previous livery design which compelled use of 22 different colors.

PIA, as part of its Product Improvement Plan is in the process of launching new flight destinations, increasing frequency of flights to its well established routes and will also refurbish the interior of the aircraft thereby providing more and better facilities to its passengers.