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Dear Member, Members coming for Transition Training Courses to KHI shall be accommodated in Airport Hotel during training period on Airlines expense. Rgds, PRESIDENT

Tax imposed on flying allowance and concessional passages

Dear Member, By the grace of Allah, untiring efforts of the EC, management has issued directives to CFO to implement revised taxation as agreed by Finance Division vide letter No. 4(74)/2000-F-11 dated 24th Jan 2014. The affectivity of the proposed exemption is from...

New date for annual general meeting

Dear Member, PALPA AGM has been postponed till Mon 4th Nov 2013 at 1700 hrs in Garden Hall PC, ISB, due to PIAC Board meeting scheduled on 31st Oct & 1st Nov 2013 in KHI, where PALPA will make a presentation. Kindly note the change and make yourself available for...

Employees’ suggestions to make pia profitable

LAHORE, Oct 11: The Joint Action Committee of Pakistan International Airlines Employees (JACPIAE) has suggested short-and long-term measures to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to make it profitable again, requesting him to drop the idea of its privatisation as it is no...

Belt tightening: committee proposes cost-cutting steps for pia

KARACHI: In its first meeting, a special committee constituted to find ways to cut avoidable expenses of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) adopted 14 proposals, which range from single-engine taxi to selling unused parts of discarded planes, it was announced...

Pia chief orders execution of cost-cutting measures

KARACHI: Aviation Secretary and Acting Chairman PIA, Muhammad Ali Gardezi, has ordered the immediate implementation of measures identified by the Way Forward” committee to ensure revenue enhancement and cost curtailment at the ailing national airline. The “Way...

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...