Although the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) claims to provide the best service to its passengers, videos and photographs shared by its customers on social media tell a different picture.
Another case of PIA’s unimpressive conduct was witnessed on social media when passengers of a Toronto-Islamabad bound flight PK-782 shared pictures of their experience in which blankets given to the passengers were used as makeshift partitions in one of its international flights.
According to reports, the PIA staff had to change the seating arrangement at the last moment to separate two families. The makeshift partitions were therefore erected to respect the privacy.
The national flag carrier’s spokesperson Mashood Tajwar, while responding to the matter, said using blankets as makeshift partitions on flights is nothing out of the ordinary. The authorities are looking into the incident, he added.
Earlier in the day, a PIA plane skidded off the runway at the Panjgur airport on Saturday. Everybody onboard remained unhurt.
A tyre of the plane, flying from Karachi to Panjgur, burst during landing. The pilot of PIA’s flight PK-517, however, remained in control of the aircraft and successfully brought it to a halt near the runway, according to sources.
Such incidents involving the national flag carrier are not uncommon. In March 2013, tyres of a PIA plane burst while the aircraft made an emergency landing in Quetta. All passengers on board remained unharmed.
