Defence Minster Syed Naveed Qamar has said that national airliner PIA is not coming out of continues losses due to corruption, mismanagement and overstaffing.
On Thursday during the question hour Naveed Qamar told the National Assembly that disciplinary action is being taken against those five pilots of PIA who have fake degrees. He said that at present only 26 airports out of total 43 are functional and only five of them are profitable.
He said that the sanctioned strength of PIA is 19159 whereas actually there are 20448 employees are working in the organization. Some 3058 workers are also on the daily wages.
The minister said that there are some other factors for the loss of PIA including rise of fuel price in international market, old and insufficient fleet of airplanes and devaluation of rupee as compared to dollars. He said that there is not any ban on Boeing 747 as they are functioning throughout the world.
“About 2540 PIA flights were delayed during last two months due to technical reasons, operational and security clearance as well as weather conditions”, he added.
Corruption, mismanagement causes of PIA losses
