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Experts’ team arrives today to devise viable model for PIA
RAWALPINDI: A delegation of foreign experts is arriving in Pakistan on Monday (today) on the invitation of Adviser to the Prime Minister on Institutional Reforms and Austerity Dr Ishrat Hussain to work on a five-year corporate business plan for Pakistan International...
PIA to start paying retiring employees by 24th
ISLAMABAD:The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees who opted for a voluntary separation scheme (VSS) will get their full and final payments by next Wednesday, the national flag carrier’s management assured a delegation of employees on Friday. The PIA in...
PIA workers seek CJP’s help as protest over VSS dues intensifies
KARACHI: A body of protesting employees of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Wednesday alleged that two former employees died of heart attack because they were under a lot of stress due to non-payment of their dues under the early retirement Voluntarily...
PIA’s Continuous Mistakes
After numerous scandals, Pakistan International Airlines was ordered to undergo major restructuring in order to fix what had become a massive loss-making institution. Part of that restructuring had been the voluntary separation scheme (VSS) for its employees, which...
PIA chief seeks more flights to Kabul
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Chief Executive Officer Air Marshal Arshad Malik reached Kabul on Tuesday on a one-day official visit. The PIA CEO requested Afghanistan’s Civil Aviation Authority to allow increase in the airline’s flights to Kabul...
PIA fails to pay Voluntarily Separation Scheme dues to 1,924 employees
Workers urge management to pay monthly salaries until their dues are cleared • Govt red tape causes delay in release of funds to PIA KARACHI: The cash-strapped Pakistan International Airlines has failed to pay retirement dues of around 2,000 employees who had opted...
Appointment of DG in the past termed illegal: Parliamentary panel urges CAA to frame rules
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Friday observed that appointment of directors general Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) without proper rules was illegal and irregular in the past and the authority should frame the rules under Civil Aviation Act. A sub-committee of...
SHC grants post-arrest bail to PIA officer in fake degrees scandal
KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday granted post-arrest bail to a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) officer in a case pertaining to the fake degree scandal.The SHC bench ordered that PIA engineer Muhammad Sher Iqbal be released on bail. The...
Karachi’s relevance
KARACHI, the largest city of Pakistan and having two ports, which contributes more than 20 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and provides 60pc of its revenue, is again at the receiving end for several reasons. As some political leaders have...
PIA’s PLANE TRUTHS
It seemed like a routine flight for Captain Athar Haroon and his crew as PK894 descended into Kuala Lumpur. He was flying one of the 12 Boeing 777s Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has in its fleet. But this was not just any other aircraft. This particular plane...
Malaysian court releases PIA plane grounded over lease dispute
A Malaysian court on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane that was held in the Southeast Asian country nearly two weeks ago due to a British court case over the jet's lease. Malaysian authorities seized the Boeing...
PIA decides it will fight for Roosevelt Hotel in Reko Diq case
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Wednesday announced it will be contesting to save its New York’s Roosevelt Hotel which is being evaluated by a British Virgin Islands (BVI) court to settle the Reko Diq case as it was mortgaged against the deal. According...
PIA pilot spots UFO. Maybe not
A short video shot by the cockpit crew of a PIA aircraft set off frenzied speculation on social media on Wednesday. The 41-second-long clip shows a strange-looking phenomenon from a window of the PIA flight PK304 in Punjab skies. The video was shot over Multan-Sialkot...
CAA to outsource pilots licensing exams to UK
KARACHI: In a bid to address the concerns of global aviation industry on the issue of alleged fake licences of Pakistani pilots, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has decided to outsource the process of holding licensing exams to the United Kingdom’s CAA. Currently,...
No plan to privatise Roosevelt Hotel, Senate told
ISLAMABAD: As the opposition smelled a rat in the closure of a PIA-owned luxury hotel in New York, the government on Tuesday told the Senate there was no plan to privatise Roosevelt Hotel. The opposition said it appeared that the government was preparing ground to...
Licences of 50 pilots were fake: CAA
ISLAMABAD: Director General Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Khaqan Murtaza has said the fake licences of 50 pilots have been cancelled. According to local media, Khaqan Murtaza said evidences of ‘collusion’ in passing of exam for licences of 32 pilots have been found....
PIA to bring back its plane from Malaysia soon: minister
TAXILA: Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan has said that the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and the Peregrine Aviation Charlie Limited leasing firm have agreed on an out-of-court settlement for the PIA plane seized at the Kuala Lumpur Airport on...
The PIA blunder
One small blunder or in fact one rather big blunder from a man who should not be making such mistakes on the floor of the House has brought further disaster for Pakistan International, the country’s national carrier. Now the UN has said that the airline should not be...
1,924 employees opt for separation: PIA
RAWALPINDI: With the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)’s voluntary separation scheme (VSS) and segregation of core and non-core employees, the staff strength per aircraft would come down to the ideal aviation industry ratio. The PIA says that 2,000 applications...
PIA on rebate
AS part of moving its head offices to Islamabad, the management of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is planning to curtail expenses incurred under the head of medical facilities which is considered a huge financial burden on the airline’s revenue stream. While...