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...Annual General Body Meeting – Revised
ALL PALPA Members: Reference is made to AGM Notice dated 18th January 2021, regarding Annual General Body Meeting. It is informedthat due to unavoidable circumstances, the Executive Committee has decided to change the date for Annual General Body Meeting to Saturday...
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...PIA makes cabin crew’s alcohol testing mandatory
RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan International Airline has announced its decision to make alcohol testing compulsory for its cabin crew in line with European Union’s Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft (SAFA) programme. A notification issued in this regard to all cabin crew...
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...
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...
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...