PIA to start Peshawar-Kabul flights

PESHAWAR: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plans to start a weekly flight on the Peshawar-Kabul route from January 31.

With the beginning of the Peshawar-Kabul-Peshawar flight, a long standing demand would be met. In particular, traders and businessmen in Peshawar and Kabul had been demanding PIA flights linking the two cities.

The once-a-week flight will be scheduled on Saturdays. PIA already operates two flights a week between Islamabad and Kabul every Monday and Thursday.

Peshawar offers connecting flights to a number of cities in Pakistan and also to destinations in the Gulf and these flights would suit many Afghan passengers flying to Peshawar from Kabul. A number of airlines operate flights between Peshawar and Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Jeddah, Doha, etc.