The flight operation at Saidu Sharif airport resumed on Friday after seventeen years. The first flight of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) PK-650, , carrying Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Federal Minister for Communications Murad Saeed, and tourists successfully landed at Saidu Sharif Airport from Islamabad International Airport at 11:00am.