Pakistan's fastest growing airline, Airblue on Thursday recognised the 10,000th passenger on its Islamabad-Manchester route with a simple ceremony at Islamabad Airport.
Airblue started the first long-haul operation ever by a private Pakistani airline to Europe with four weekly flights from Islamabad to Manchester on June 1 this year and an additional flight was added in late June to increase capacity on the route to five weekly flights. The convenient scheduled timings from both Islamabad and Manchester, and personalised service has enabled Airblue to capture substantial market share on the route; and in a short span of 14 weeks it has carried more than 10,000 passengers on Islamabad to Manchester sector.
The 10,000th passenger was Sara Latif, a resident of Sialkot, who was leaving to pursue higher studies in Finance at Birmingham University. The surprised lady was presented with two Return Business Class Manchester-Islamabad tickets and a model of the Airblue Airbus A321 aircraft by Airblue Islamabad District Manager Saeed Hassan.
Airblue officials said here on Friday that the airline planned extensive growth in its operations with the purchase of 14 new-generation aircraft providing additional frequencies to existing destinations and opening of new routes in the Domestic, Middle Eastern, and European markets.
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