Re: PIA Flight Service
Flights from Toronto to Pakistan are non-stop now, no stop-overs in UK for re-fueling. PIA started non-stop flights from US (NY, Chicago and Houston) to Pak and back, but US objected due to security reasons. So PIA flights to and from US are back to same routine: stopping over in UK for re-fueling. BTW, PIA's new Boeing 777-LR can fly 14 hrs non-stop from Pak to US (that’s why Canadian flights are non-stop), these 777-LRs can even go non-stop from Pak to LA.
Back to the topic, I traveled from Chicago to Karachi in Oct 2005, flight was OK, I was surprised by the nice attitude of stewards. Food was good too, enough in quantity and I didn’t have to worry about muslim meal/halal thing. They were showing reasonably good movies, and some old cricket matches (Pak vs India match on BCCI platinum Jubilee, which Pak won, Butt made 100 in that match). Only thing annoying was the crying kids.
When I was returning back from Khi to NYC in Jan 2006 (after 3 months), I was disappointed to see the same movie package being showed on the flight.