PIA resumes Islamabad to London

China Eastern to launch Shanghai to Tashkent route

PIA resumes Islamabad to London
China Eastern to launch Shanghai to Tashkent route

January 5th, 2026. From March 29th, Pakistan International Airlines will resume a service between Islamabad and London. The flight will operate four times a week on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays with slightly different departure times on each day.

On Sundays and Mondays, flight number PK785 will take off from Islamabad International Airport at 12:30 and 12:35 respectively, and are scheduled to arrive at London’s Heathrow Airport at 16:55 or 17:00. On Wednesdays, the departure time is 11:30, and, Fridays, 11:50, arriving at 15:55 and 12:15.

The return trips, flight number PK785, will leave London at 18:55 on Mondays and ten minutes later, at 19:05 on all other days, and will land back in Islamabad at 06:40 or 06:50 the next day.

The duration of the outbound flight will be about eight and a half hours, and about forty minutes less for the return. The route will be served by Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.

Shanghai to Tashkent

Also launching at the end of March is a new China Eastern Airlines route linking Shanghai with Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The airline did operate the route a few times in early October; this time, it should be back, four days a week, for the summer season.

Flight number MU6037 will take off from Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport at 13:40 on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and will touch down at Tashkent International Airport at 18:40. The return leg, flight number MU6038, will leave Tashkent at 20:20 and will land back in Shanghai at 06:15 the next morning.

The route will be served by an Airbus A330-200 aircraft, and the journey time will be eight hours for the outbound flight and about one hour less for the return.

Picture: Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777-200ER by Eric Salard via Wikimedia Commons

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