Lufthansa Inaugural Flight To Pakistan

[cntower]

Here's a set of photos sent by forum member dragonfly. The photos show resumption of Lufthansa passenger flights for Pakistan on October 28, 2007 after a gap of...uhh...a long time!


Special cake prepared to celebrate departure of inaugural flight at Frankfurt Airport, Germany.


Inaugural flight's passengers at Frankfurt Airport.


Lufthansa Airbus A300B4-603 (registration D-AIAN) ready to operate inaugural flight LH658 from Frankfurt to Karachi & Lahore.


Sweets served to passengers of inaugural flight at Frankfurt Airport, Germany.


A ceremony at Frankfurt Airport.


Check-in counter for flight LH658


Economy Class cabin of Lufthansa Airbus A300B4-603 (registration D-AIAN) operating inaugural flight LH658 from Frankfurt to Karachi & Lahore.


Business Class cabin of Lufthansa Airbus A300B4-603 (registration D-AIAN) operating inaugural flight LH658 from Frankfurt to Karachi & Lahore.

[cntower]

Warm reception for inaugural flight at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport.


Lufthansa Airbus A300B4-603 (registration D-AIAN) seen at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport after operating inaugural flight LH658 from Frankfurt via Karachi.


Lufthansa Airbus A300B4-603 (registration D-AIAN) seen at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport after operating inaugural flight LH658 from Frankfurt via Karachi.


More cake! Shaheen Air Port Services (SAPS) celebrating arrival of Lufthansa's inaugural flight LH658.

[goschio]

Nice, I like the idea with the cakes.

[Booze]

Cakes look nice XD

[Ah! Monterrey]

Nice Cakes

[siamu maharaj]

Funny that you should post it on the same day Lufthansa decided to close down its service to Karachi.

[cntower]

^ Well they're restarting Karachi on May 12th

[KB]

Who got to eat the cakes? and serving sweets.... *

There must be a huge demand for such flights for I can't figure out how these European airlines afford this destination. I mean PIA or middle-eastern airlines operate the same route with much cheaper tickets.

I don't know exactly about lufthansa...but Air France or British airways for example cost atleast 1.5 times the tickets of PIA, Emirates, GULF AIR, QATAR AIRWAYS,etc. The only explanation that comes to mind are:

1. more demand than supply...which seems true seeing the rush on PIA and ME Airlines
2. A good number of European travelers that are sponsored by their govt/company that are obliged to use the national carrier.



*though i wouldn't mind the sweets