KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has introduced executive economy class for its Jeddah and Madinah routes, for the convenience of Umrah passengers.
“The PIA passengers traveling for Umrah can now avail the facility of executive economy class where they will be served business class cuisine and will have an added advantage of 5kgs excess allowable baggage free of cost,” a spokesman of the national flag carrier said, on Monday.
Keeping in view the demand, PIA has introduced extra Umrah flights for the next two weeks; with four extra flights from Karachi, three from Islamabad, two from Lahore and one from Multan.
“These extra flights are in addition to the airlines existing scheduled flights for Jeddah and Madinah on which it is now operating bigger capacity aircrafts to meet the demand,” the spokesman added.