Pakistan to increase inbound international flight capacity by 50% ahead of Eid

ISLAMABAD: To facilitate overseas Pakistanis ahead of the Eid Al-Adha holiday next week, Pakistan’s central pandemic response body, the National Command and Operations Center (NCOC), has announced increasing the capacity of inbound international flights by 50 percent from July 15.
The NCOC has also directed authorities to make necessary arrangements on all airports to deal with the higher number of passengers.
“The decision [to increase the flight] will be implemented from July 15,” NCOC said in a statement, saying up to 3,000 additional passengers would be able to come to Pakistan daily due to the increased capacity. 
The forum also announced mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for domestic air travel from August 1.
On July 01, Pakistan announced that international inbound flights would be enhanced to 40 percent only for direct flights from the UK, Canada, Europe, Malaysia and China.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) recently announced that Pakistan would fly special flights to bring home over 6,100 citizens stranded in Gulf countries due to coronavirus-related travel curbs.