First Virgin Atlantic flight arrives in Pakistan
Aviation News Desk:
The first flight of British airline Virgin Atlantic landed in Islamabad on Friday from Manchester. The new flight will help improve people-to-people links and boost trade between Pakistan and the UK. The airline will operate four weekly flights on three routes from Pakistan to the United Kingdom, two from Islamabad to London and Manchester and one from Lahore to London. report Gulf News.
Zulfikar Bukhari, Special Assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan for Overseas Pakistanis, along with British High Commissioner Christian Turner welcomed the new British airline at Islamabad International Airport. Bukhari termed the inaugural flight a great new step for Pakistani diaspora based in the United Kingdom and European Union (EU). “Pakistan is more connected and open for travel and tourism today than it has been in decades” he said, thanking the British High Commissioner for his efforts to strengthen Pakistan and UK relations.
