First int'l flight takes off from Gwadar airport

Gwadar: First international flight took off from New Gwadar International Airport for Muscat on Friday. 

International flight operations officially commenced from the new airport, with the inaugural flight, PK-197 of the national carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), departing for Muscat at 9:41am today.

Not less than 39 passengers departed for Muscat, with senior PIA officials bidding them farewell at the airport. The same ATR aircraft will return from Muscat to Gwadar later in the afternoon as flight PK-198.

Earlier in the day, the aircraft had arrived in Gwadar from Karachi as flight PK-503, carrying passengers to the state-of-the-art facility.

PIA has launched one weekly international flight to Muscat from the New Gwadar International Airport.