{"id":20893,"date":"2025-01-20T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=20893"},"modified":"2025-01-20T13:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:24:25","slug":"gwadar-airport-begins-operations-as-first-flight-successfully-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2025\/01\/20\/gwadar-airport-begins-operations-as-first-flight-successfully-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwadar Airport begins operations as first flight successfully lands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The first commercial flight of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) from Karachi landed at Gwadar International Airport.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flight PK-503, carrying 46 passengers, took off at 9:50 am and landed at the new Gwadar Airport at 11:14 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inauguration of Gwadar International Airport took place Monday with an inauguration flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federal Minister for Aviation Khawaja Asif officially inaugurated the airport and revived the first commercial flight of Pakistan International Airlines from Karachi Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first commercial flight of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) from Karachi landed at Gwadar International<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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