Emirates Launches Sialkot, Pakistan Flight

Cake cutting ceremony: (from left) Major General Mir Haider Ali Khan, CEO of Sialkot International Airport; Ahmed Khoory, Emirates’ Senior Vice President Commercial Operations – West Asia and Indian Ocean; His Excellency Essa El Basha Al Nuaimi, UAE Ambassador for Pakistan; Salah Al Ansari, Director, Visitor Information Bureaus – Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing; Ashfaq Ahmed Chaudhry, Chairman Sialkot International Airport; together with other respresentatives of Sialkot International Airport.

Emirates Airline recently launched services to Sialkot, its fifth destination in Pakistan. The airline will operate four weekly flights with an Airbus A330-200 aircraft in a two-class configuration, offering 54 seats in Business Class and 183 in Economy Class.

Sialkot is the capital of Sialkot District located in the north-east of the Punjab province in Pakistan. Situated around 125 kilometres north of Lahore, it provides Emirates’ customers with an alternative gateway to the Export Triangle of Pakistan – the area encompassing Gujrat, Sialkot and Gujranwala.

Emirates flight EK620 departs Dubai at 04:15 hours and arrives in Sialkot at 08:20 hours on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. The return flight EK621 leaves Sialkot at 09:45 hours, arriving in Dubai at 12:35 hours.

The Emirates A330-200 operating the Sialkot service can carry up to 17 tonnes of cargo, giving a boost to trade opportunities.

Emirates’ flights from Sialkot connect seamlessly through the airline’s global hub in Dubai to key business and leisure destinations such as the UK, continental Europe and the Middle East.

The airline operates 66 flights a week to Pakistan including four to Sialkot, 35 to Karachi, 11 each to Lahore and Islamabad and five to Peshawar.