PIA flights cancelled, loss of more than 1 billion rupees

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PIA flights cancelled, loss of more than 1 billion rupees

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As the protests of PIA employees continue, for the first time in history of Pakistan, not a single flight of PIA could take off from any airport today and passengers are facing problems; where as other private airlines increased their fares tremendously.

10 February,2011 09:53 pm

Many pilots, flight crew and ground staff of Pakistan International Airlines went on a strike on Tuesday to protest against a proposed codeshare agreement with Turkish Airlines. The protesting employees are also demanding the sacking of PIAs managing director, Aijaz Haroon, an airline pilot considered a close friend of President Asif Ali Zardari. As the protests continue, for the first time in history of Pakistan, not a single PIA flight was able to take off today from any of the airport due to which the national carrier has faced a loss of more than 1 billion rupees. The passengers are facing lots of problems due to the cancellation of flights. PIA’s flight PK-2 bound for Gilgit from Islamabad, PK-1 bound for Chitral from Islamabad and four flights for Karachi got cancelled. While five flights from Multan, Lahore and Karachi could not reach Islamabad. Six domestic and one international flight got cancelled at Multan airport. Similarly just like other countries, inbound and outbound flights to Quetta were also cancelled. Five Iiternational flights destined to Birmingham, Kabul, Dubai and Manchester from Islamabad were also cancelled. As this situation is getting worse, the private airlines are taking advantage by increasing the fare prices immensely.