PIA (Pakistan International Airlines)

Hub: Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad

PIA is the national carrier and the only airline with a true nationwide network inside Pakistan, including the mountain airports of Skardu and Gilgit that matter for northern-areas tourism. Internationally its network has been rebuilt in recent years, so route availability changes more often than for the Gulf carriers.

Qatar Airways

Hub: Doha (DOH)

Qatar Airways runs one of the widest Pakistan networks of any international airline, reaching secondary cities such as Sialkot, Multan, Peshawar and Faisalabad via Doha. That makes it the carrier to check first if your family is not in Islamabad, Lahore or Karachi.

Emirates

Hub: Dubai (DXB)

Emirates connects Pakistan to the world through Dubai with high frequency and big aircraft, which is why its fares stay competitive even in peak season. For travellers from the Americas and Australia, the Dubai connection is often the smoothest single stop.

Etihad Airways

Hub: Abu Dhabi (AUH)

Etihad focuses on the three main Pakistani gateways via Abu Dhabi and frequently prices aggressively to fill its flights, which is why it keeps appearing as the cheapest cached fare on our London and Manchester searches.

Turkish Airlines

Hub: Istanbul (IST)

Turkish Airlines routes Pakistan traffic through Istanbul, which is the geographically shortest hub from Scandinavia and much of Europe. That often translates into the fastest total journey time from Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm.

Saudia

Hub: Jeddah (JED) and Riyadh (RUH)

Saudia is the natural choice for combining Pakistan trips with Umrah, with direct links between the Kingdom and five Pakistani cities. For workers and families in Saudi Arabia it is the home-corridor airline.

flydubai

Hub: Dubai (DXB)

flydubai is the low-cost workhorse of the Gulf-Pakistan corridor, serving several cities the full-service carriers skip. Fares are unbundled, so the headline price is for the seat; bags and meals are added on top.

Gulf Air

Hub: Bahrain (BAH)

Gulf Air flies quieter than the big Gulf three, and that is exactly its appeal: the Bahrain hub is small, transfers are quick, and fares often undercut the giants on the same one-stop routings from Europe.

Airblue

Hub: Islamabad (ISB)

Airblue is Pakistan’s largest private airline, strong on trunk domestic routes and on Gulf corridors to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Inside Pakistan it is the main full-schedule alternative to PIA.

Fly Jinnah

Hub: Karachi (KHI)

Fly Jinnah is the young low-cost carrier in the Air Arabia family, built to push domestic fares down and expand short-haul international links from Pakistan. It is the airline shaking prices on the busiest domestic trunks.

AirSial

Hub: Sialkot (SKT)

AirSial is the Sialkot business community’s airline, and it has quietly become one of the most useful carriers on the corridor: a full domestic trunk network plus direct flights to Saudi Arabia (Jeddah, Madinah, Riyadh, Dammam), the UAE and Muscat. For Punjab families and Umrah travellers it often beats a Gulf connection on both time and price.

SereneAir

Hub: Islamabad (ISB)

SereneAir has flown Pakistan’s domestic trunks since 2017 and has stretched into Gulf and Saudi routes in recent years. It sits between PIA and the low-cost newcomers: private, established, and focused on the busy city pairs rather than the widest possible map.

Hub: Karachi (KHI)

Air Karachi is Pakistan’s newest passenger airline project, founded by a group of prominent Karachi business figures who invested around Rs 5 billion, with first flights announced for 2026 on domestic routes from Karachi. The stated plan: rebuild reliable, business-grade domestic flying first, then expand to Saudi Arabia, Oman and the UAE.