ISLAMABAD
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Saturday suspended its flight operation to Syrian capital Damascus in view of bombing of the city airport’s runways by the Israeli forces yesterday. “Both runways are inactive due to bombing at the Damascus airport that led to complete suspension of (flight) operations there,” Spokesman Abdullah Hafeez Khand said in a news release here. PIA flight PK-135, which was to leave Karachi for the Syrian capital today early in the morning with 170 passengers on board, had to be cancelled.
Similarly, national flag carrier’s flight PK-136, which had to bring 169 passengers from Damascus back to Karachi, was also cancelled.
The spokesman regretted the inconvenience faced by the passengers, explaining that the flight’s cancellation was unavoidable due to the confronted operational issues.
He said the flights would be rescheduled as soon as the runways were restored; otherwise, the passengers would be transported through alternative means.
Accordingly, he said, all passengers were being informed through PIA’s call centre.
