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ISLAMABAD, July 8 (TNS): A milestone in Pakistan\u2019s aviation history achieved as world\u2019s biggest passenger airplane \u2014 Airbus A380 \u2014 landed at the New Islamabad International Airport on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Emirates\u2019 special one-off A380 flight to Islamabad took off from Dubai on Sunday morning with celebrities, officials and journalists on board,\u00a0Gulf News<\/em>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n In a landmark for Pakistan\u2019s aviation history, the A380 flight arrived in Islamabad at 12:10pm (PST) with 625 on board.<\/p>\n The flight was fully booked with commercial passengers, except for a small official delegation.<\/p>\n According to\u00a0Gulf News<\/em>, Captain Fazle Ghani, who operated the first Emirates flight to Pakistan in 1985, was on board as a special guest. Also on board were Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UAE Moazzam Ahmed Khan and Emirates’ Divisional Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations Centre Shaikh Majid Al Mualla among others.<\/p>\n Although this was a one-off flight, Emirates wants to make the A380 a regular daily flight between Dubai and Islamabad in the future.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are proud to bring our flagship A380 aircraft to Islamabad, and we look forward to showcasing our innovative products on-board this iconic aircraft with the signature Emirates service. While this is a special flight, we are very keen to launch a scheduled A380 service to Pakistan and will continue to work with authorities to realise these plans,\u201d Shaikh Majid Al Mualla said.<\/p>\n The A380 weighs 577 tons, its length is 240 feet and the wing span is 260 feet. The double-decker plane stands 80-foot high from the ground and has a speed of 945 kilometres per hour with its four powerful turbo engines.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ISLAMABAD, July 8 (TNS): A milestone in Pakistan\u2019s aviation history achieved as world\u2019s biggest passenger airplane \u2014 Airbus A380 \u2014 landed at the New Islamabad International Airport on Sunday. The Emirates\u2019 special one-off A380 flight to Islamabad took off from Dubai on Sunday morning with celebrities, officials and journalists on board,\u00a0Gulf News\u00a0reported. In a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70867,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70866\/revisions\/70867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}