Pia opens financial bid for 10 aircraft today

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will open on Monday (today) first bid for obtaining 10 additional aircraft on lease, to improve its services and overcome losses. Although the PIA management has sought financial bids for acquiring 10 aircraft...

Revenue enhancement: chairman pia forms ‘way forward’ committee

Amidst government announcement that it would offer 26 percent shares of Pakistan International Airlines to strategic investors with management control, as a first step towards its privatisation and stiff resistance by the employees, Chairman, Pakistan International...

Pia forms committee to find the ‘way forward’

KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Chairman Muhammad Ali Gardezi has formed a committee to provide recommendation for revenue enhancement and cost cutting with the aim of rejuvenating the ailing airline. According to a notification, Captain Suhail Baluch...

Pia chairman forms implementation committee

KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Chairman Muhammad Ali Gardezi has formed a committee headed by Captain Suhail Baluch to provide solutions for revenue enhancement and cost curtailment with the aim of rejuvenating the airline to move towards regaining its...

Palpa endorses aircraft safety measures

KARACHI: Pakistan Airline Pilots’ Association (PALPA) said on Tuesday that any action by PIA management to ensure the safety of passengers would be supported by the association. A spokesman for the association hailed the management’s decision for pilots to undergo a...

Pia to attain break even in year’s time: md

KARACHI, Sept 23 (APP): The Managing Director of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Junaid Yunus, has expressed the optimism that the National Flag Carrier would attain break even in a year’s time. He was addressing a news conference at the PIA Head Office...

Employees call for withdrawal of pia privatisation plan

The Joint Action Committee of Pakistan International Airlines Employees (JACPIAE) demanded from the government on Wednesday to immediately withdraw its decision of privatising the national flag carrier and instead of selling out its 26 per cent shares in the market...

Stakeholders reject pia privatisation proposal

LAHORE: All the stakeholders have rejected the proposal of privatising the national flag carrier, stating if any party buys Pakistan International Airlines outright, the government will have to pay Rs200billion to offset the liabilities and loans on government...