Only one on board as PIA flight departs from Manchester for Islamabad

A Pakistan Global Airways (PIA) flight which flew from Manchester on Sunday arrived in Islamabad with only a single passenger on board. 

The solitary passenger, a indigenous of Gujrat, was permitted to fly to Islamabad from Manchester as a specific authorization by the airline, officials said. 

Information of the ‘special flight’ had designed a excitement on social media, as commentators reacted to the reality that a single passenger flew aboard a plane with a capacity for 371 men and women apart from crew.

Having said that, airline officers later clarified that flights from the British isles are returning empty due to vacation limits placed by the governing administration following the outbreak of a new, more virulent strain of the coronavirus there. 

In this scenario, on the other hand, unique permission was provided to passenger Abdul Razzaq to accompany the system of a deceased relative to Pakistan. No other passenger has been permitted to accompany bodies for the duration of coronavirus-linked vacation constraints, they clarified.

Corrections: An previously edition of this report had incorrectly said that the flight was to Manchester. The mistake has given that been rectified.