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🎥 Watch the Taxi-Out Watch: our Flydubai Boeing 737 taxiing out at Multan Airport — engines running, seatbelt sign on, and the journey to Dubai begins. FlyDubai Diaries · Day 5 · Multan → Dubai And We’re Moving: Taxiing Out at Multan Airport The engines are warm, the doors are closed, and the yellow line ahead is ours — the slow, deliberate roll that starts every journey. Pushback is done. The tug has gone. And then — that little shudder through the airframe as the engines wake up for the road ahead. This morning at Multan Airport, our Flydubai 737 began the most underrated part of any flight: the taxi-out. It is the slowest part of flying and, in its own way, the most important. Every turn the aircraft makes on the ground is a promise kept — doors closed, everyone aboard, and Dubai waiting at the far end of the yellow line. 1 The Slowest Part of Flying Is the Most Important Passengers tend to file taxiing under “bo...

🎥 Watch the Tail-to-Tail Moment Watch on YouTube: Tail to Tail: Flydubai 737 Winglet and the PIA 777 at Multan Airport ✈️ FlyDubai Diaries · Day 4 · Multan → Dubai Tail to Tail: Our Flydubai Winglet and the PIA 777 at Multan Airport Two airlines, two very different stories — sharing one busy apron for a few minutes, seen from the best seat in the house. There is a moment at every airport, just before departure, when the whole journey hangs in the air. This morning at Multan Airport, I found mine through the scratched plastic of the window seat: in the foreground, the graceful curve of our Flydubai 737's winglet, and right behind it, the tall, proud tail of a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777, being readied for her own journey. Two airlines, two completely different stories — and for a few minutes, tail to tail on the same apron. 1 The Shape in the Foreground: Why Winglets Matter Before we talk about the giants on the ramp, let's tal...

🎥 Watch the Morning Rush Watch: the morning rush on the apron at Multan Airport, filmed from the window seat of our Flydubai 737. FlyDubai Diaries · Day 3 · Multan → Dubai Morning Rush on the Apron: The Beautiful Chaos at Multan Airport Fuel trucks, baggage carts, marshals with glowing wands — a window-seat tour of the busiest hour on the ramp, when every flight is waking up at once. It is a morning like any other on the flight schedule board, and completely unlike anything you see from the departure lounge. Seven seconds of video, shot from a window seat at Multan Airport, show the terminal behind us and our stand neighbour ahead — but the real story is everything moving in between. Fuel trucks crawling past. Baggage carts rattling along their tow lines. Stairs being dragged into position for another aircraft's boarding call. This is the morning rush on the apron, and once you learn to read it, no flight will ever feel the same again. ...

✈️ Window-Seat Diaries · Multan Airport Up Close with the Big Bird: PIA Boeing 777 Boarding at Multan Airport A widebody wakes up beside our Flydubai 737 — and from the terminal window, every minute of it is pure theatre. There is a moment every plane-spotter knows by heart: you are settled in your own aircraft, coffee nowhere in sight, eyes pressed to the window — and then a giant pulls into view. That morning at Multan Airport, sitting on our Flydubai 737, the giant was a PIA Boeing 777: stairs wheeled up to its doors, passengers climbing aboard, ground crews swarming around it like stagehands before a show. It had a presence no narrowbody can match, and for a few glorious minutes it stole the whole apron. Morning turnaround in full swing: the Boeing 777 takes on passengers through mobile stairs while the ramp crew readies it for departure. Illustration generated for this article.   🎥 Watch the Big Bird Board Watch: the PIA Boeing 777 boarding at...

Daily Aviation Story · October 16, 2026 Parked Next to a Giant: PIA Boeing 777 Beside Our Flydubai 737 at Multan Airport A sunrise on the Multan apron — where a widebody wakes up beside us and the window seat becomes the best seat in the house. There is a particular kind of luck that only window-seat travellers know: the luck of being parked next to something magnificent. This morning, on the apron at Multan Airport, that luck was ours. We were settled into our Flydubai 737, the cabin still filling with the soft sounds of boarding, the engines quiet — and right outside our window, close enough to count the rivets, stood a PIA Boeing 777, being readied for her own journey. Boarding stairs rolled up to her doors, service vehicles circling like attendants, the whole widebody gleaming in the low morning sun. For the next half hour, nobody in our row reached for their phones. Why would we? The best screen on the plane was the window. Wat...