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| Founded | 29 October 1946 | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | 4 June 1947 | ||||||
| Ceased operations | 11 March 1955
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| Fleet size | 10 Douglas DC-3 3 Convair 240 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Karachi, Pakistan | ||||||
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Orient Airways Ltd. (Urdu: اورینٹ ایَیر ویز لمیٹڈ) was an airline established in 1946 with its base in Calcutta, Bengal, British India. The airline shifted operations to the newly independent state of Pakistan in 1947,[2] and was rechristened as Pakistan International Airlines in 1955.[3][4] It was the first and only Muslim owned airline in British Raj and flew from 1947 to 1955.[5][6]
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- ^ Hasan, Saad (23 May 2016). "PIA's Seventy Year Long Descent". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
- ^ James J Lynch (11 November 1984). Airline Organization in the 1980s: An Industry Report on Strategies and Structures for Coping withChange. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 98–. ISBN 978-1-349-07630-7.
- ^ Sánchez-Triana, Ernesto; Javaid Afzal; Dan Biller; Sohail Malik (18 July 2013). Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms: A Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment. World Bank Publications. pp. 205–. ISBN 978-0-8213-9930-9.
- ^ "Formation of Muslim-owned economic institutions: 1940-1947". Archived from the original on 7 February 2009.
- ^ "Pakistani International Airlines: About PIA – History". Retrieved 20 March 2014.