KARACHI, June 16: The AirBlue airline will celebrate completion of its first year of operation on June 18. It has organized a number of events for the occasion. This was stated by the airline’s director commercial, Mr Nasir Ali, at a press conference here on Thursday.

He said special events would be held in Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and Nawabshah to mark the occasion.

He claimed that the airline had “contributed Rs2.5 billion to the national economy” during the year.

He said that having completed one year of operation, the airline now planned to expand its operation. It had applied for ‘four flights a week operation’ to Bombay and some destinations in the Middle East and the United States, he added.