15/11/2019
ETIHAD AIRWAYS AND PIA RELAUNCH CODESHARE PARTNERSHIP
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Etihad Airways will once again be restoring their codeshare partnership to provide their passengers with greater access to trunk routes between the UAE and Pakistan and through Etihad a more convenient gateway to the global destinations. The codeshare flights will be open for sale on 13 November 2019, with the first travel date from 26 November 2019.
The codeshare partnership is an agreement between two airlines in which one airline sells the seats on a flight operated by the other airline, each using their own flight number.
The partnership will see Etihad Airways place its โEYโ code on PIA services to and from Abu Dhabi to the Pakistani cities of Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar. PIA will place its โPKโ code on Etihad services from Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore to Abu Dhabi and vice versa, and also onwards from the UAE capital to Amsterdam, Bahrain, Colombo Chicago, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Madrid, Moscow, Washington D.C, and Zurich and potentially to Amman, Athens, Brisbane, Melbourne, Nairobi, Rome and Sydney.
PIA has been serving Abu Dhabi for more than three decades, and today flies seven weekly flights each from Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar. While Etihad has been serving Pakistan since November 2004, and currently operates two daily flights from Abu Dhabi to Islamabad, 11 weekly flights to Lahore, and a daily service to Karachi.