I don't usually say owt on this site, just watch the converstations flow- but thought I would help out the converstation on the PIA issue
Newcastle City has a pakistani population of 10,589.00- mainly centred in Fenham/ Arthurs Hill in the west of the city (the whole Tyneside conurbation has a population of 15105 of pakistani background)
Middlesbrough also has a a large NE pakistani centre with a population of 6149.
The whole northeast region as a whole has a pakistani population of 31,695.
In contrast
Leeds has a population of 28569 pakistani, and Bradford 79971- 108538 altogether (200579 for the whole Yorkshire Humber region 6 times more pakistani's in Yorkshire than in the North East)
However- if PIA fly from Glasgow, the numbers of pakistanis living in Glasgow is 17595, and in the whole of Scotland is roughly 22,000- less than the northeast region and they can support a flight so why then not Newcastle??
SO........ Leeds would be a better bet, but it may have something to do with the airport facilities and the fact that Manchester airport is only an hour (not even that from Bradford) so they may feel Leeds/ Bradford is already served.