Pakistani airlines to resume India flights next month

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Pakistani airlines to resume India flights next month

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Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will begin operating six flights a week to two Indian cities in January, 2004 after the two countries lifted their two-year suspension on air links, The News reported Friday.

The English newspaper quoted PIA marketing director Kamran Hasan as saying Thursday that the airlines also plans to boost its total flights to India to 12 in March, the same number it flew before India snapped the air links with Pakistan after a terrorist attack on its parliament in December, 2001.

PIA will operate two flights each on its Karachi-New Delhi, Karachi-Mumbai and Lahore-New Delhi routes, Kamran said.

He said the airlines also plans to resume six flights to three other South Asian destinations in January: two to Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital; two to Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital and two to Katmandu, Nepal's capital. These flights were discontinued after India barred Pakistani overflights in early 2002.

Early this month, India and Pakistan agreed to resume overflights and landing rights from Jan. 1, 2004.

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