Tag: Pia

STAFF REPORT - The PIA would provide daily link to over 100 international destinations from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad under a joint venture commercial arrangement with Turkish Airlines, the PIA spokesman said on Thursday. Pakistani passengers have been demanding that the PIA should provide daily flights to all operational international destinations and also link other major cities of the world with Pakistan.
This is not possible because of the limitations of fleet and

KARACHI - A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between PIA and Turkish Airlines to boost commercial cooperation and to bring the people of these two countries closer.
The MoU was signed by PIA MD Captain Muhammad Aijaz Haroon and CEO Turkish Airlines Dr Temel Kotil. Both airlines explored avenues for utilising resources for mutual benefit.

KARACHI - The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) board approved the corporate budget for the year 2011 with a revenue target of Rs 133 billion which is 22 percent higher than the expected actual revenues of 2010.
The board emphasised that the management should make an all out effort to meet the assigned target and appreciated the efforts of the management, which despite volcanic eruptions, snow storms in Europe and slowdown of economic situation all over the world, enabled

KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday formally inaugurated the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Apna Ghar Scheme for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees. The president was greeted on his arrival at the ceremony at the PIA Head Office, Karachi by thousands of employees of the national flag carrier, ministers and other guests.
Zardari congratulated the employees and the management of the airline on the launch of the housing scheme. Distributing allotment

KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) administration has released more than Rs 20 million to a trade union, Super Peoples Unity, for putting up banners and billboards to welcome President Asif Ali Zardari at the inauguration ceremony of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Housing Scheme today (Saturday).
The union's president, Aamir Shah, who is not a PIA employee, was issued a daily wager card along with other 15 people by the national carrier on Friday and it is likely that he

KARACHI - While most of the airlines in Europe are fighting the snowy weather, the Pakistan International Airlines is facing delays because of foggy conditions.
The flights scheduled to Bhawalpur, Raheem Yar Khan, Faislabad, Sialkot, and Multan on Thursday were delayed and they could not reach their destinations till Thursday night. Recently, PIA's two Boeing-777 and one jumbo passenger planes have reached London.
The PIA spokesperson informed the flights stuck at the

LAHORE: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Managing Director Muhammad Aijaz Haroon is known for his ability to keep his bosses and friends happy, but this very habit troubled around 250 passengers when the MD ordered a Lahore-bound flight to be diverted to Karachi, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources said the PIA MD and his two friends were travelling from Manchester to Lahore on PIA's flight PK 710, scheduled to land in Lahore, at 2:40 pm. But during the flight, the MD's

COLOMBO: Pakistan and Sri Lanka on Sunday agreed they would waive off the requirement for official and diplomatic visas and restore PIA flights to Colombo.
In a series of meetings held in Colombo by President Asif Ali Zardari with the Sri Lankan president, prime minister and foreign minister, with the two sides signed three agreements and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance bilateral ties.
The agreements and the MoU aim at abolishing visas, facilitating customs

ISLAMABAD: The mismanagement of public sector enterprises can be easily ascertained from the fact that PIA, having accumulated losses of Rs 80 billion and incurred liabilities of Rs 144 billion, has failed to recover Rs 75.557 million, by its own admission, from a government organisation despite the passage of six years.
The audit report 2009-10 of PIA makes for interesting reading and reveals that PIA's Revenue Accounting Department (Cargo) is owed the huge sum of Rs 175.121

ISLAMABAD: PML-Q MNA Marvi Memon will table a privilege motion today (Monday) in the National Assembly Secretariat against Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar for misleading the House by giving wrong figures on the PIA losses.
"A report published by daily Pakistan Today on Saturday has reflected that the minister submitted false figures in his written reply to a question raised by MNA Sheikh Salahuddin about the PIA losses from during the first nine months from January to September

ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar on Friday attempted to mislead the National Assembly on the amount of losses incurred by the state-run PIA, saying the national carrier suffered losses worth Rs 10.9 million in the first nine months of the current year, while PIA's third financial quarter report said the losses for the period were to the tune of Rs 11.7 billion.
The Pakistan International Airline report, uploaded on its website, contradicts the minister's claim, as it

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is asking the government, saddled with its own mounting debt, to write off losses of $ 1.7 billion to save it from looming threat of bankruptcy.
In a five-year survival plan submitted to the government, PIA has promised to make cutbacks and boost its fleet in a bid to improve its fortunes, if the treasury agrees to cancel its debt and pay off other creditors.
Blaming "bad policies of the past" for accumulated losses of Rs

KARACHI: Saudi Arabia's Haj officials have fined the PIA 2.4 million riyals for not providing pilgrims with ED forms and also for the delay and cancellation of flights, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to sources in the national carrier, PIA is now trying to settle the matter with the Saudi officials and has offered them gifts to have the fine waived off.
There was a shortage of ED forms provided by the Ministry of Religious Affairs to the pilgrims, who are supposed to

KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines has decreased its losses to Rs 10.955 billion in the nine months ending September, 2010 compared to Rs 11.403 billion in the preceding year. According to a press statement, the total revenue PIA has earned in the nine months period ending September, 2010 was Rs. 74.360 billion, which was 16.3 percent higher than in the same period of 2009.
This was announced in the PIA Board of Directors (BOD) meeting held in Multan chaired by Federal

KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) finance director has promoted his 'favourite employee' after giving him a waiver of four years, flouting the rule that an employee must serve for seven years before being promoted to the next grade.
Thus, Finance Director Secretariat Assistant Mohammad Shareef he has been promoted from pay group III to pay group IV after a four-year waiver. Before this promotion, he was a record assistant at the Finance Director Secretariat and

KARACHI: Goods worth Rs 3.5 billion, sent to Pakistan by friendly countries for the assistance of the millions of displaced flood survivors, are rotting away in the import section warehouses of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Pakistan Today has learnt.
"These goods include food and medicines from friendly nations, which wanted to show their goodwill towards Pakistan at its time of need," a source privy to the matter said. "The weather has destroyed much of the goods,