Cost Saving Operations Are Undertaken By The New Management: Chairman PIA
Faizan Hashmi Published January 15, 2019 | 09:43 PM
Talking about the cost saving operations undertaken by the new management, he said a strategy was evolved to stop bleeding and cut costs of the national airlines
He said seven loss making routes including Lahore-Delhi-Lahore, Karachi-Dhaka-Karachi, Karachi-Muscat-Karachi, Karachin-Kuala Lumpur-Karachi, Karachi-Bangkok-Karachi, Pakistan-Paris-Barcelona and Karachi-NJF-Karachi had been suspended.
"Flights to these routes were causing a loss of 500 million rupees every month," he said.
He said flight on Islamabad-Beijing-Tokyo-Beijing-Islamabad route was causing a loss of 300 million rupees every month as PIA was allowed to pick only 80 passengers from Tokyo on a 350-seat aircraft.
He said rationalization, closure and rerouting of flights was yielding fruits as 200 million rupees would be saved per month.
He said seven profit making routes had been introduced where seat factor was around 95% as compared to the closed routes where seat factor was only 54%.
The night landing facility at Peshawar Airport is being restored and soon passengers, including expats will directly land there, he added.
The CEO said that PIA was operating a fleet of 32 aircraft out of which six were grounded rather abandoned.
The overhauling of these aircraft is being done by our engineers and technicians, he said.
He said around 200 hundred ghost employees had been removed while action had also been taken against the fake degree-holders as per Supreme Court directions.
Describing the non-professional attitude of the previous PIA management, he said that there was extreme lack of interest to run the national airline. Even engines of some airplanes had been removed, while wings and other parts also disappeared, he said.
He said the ground support equipment and vehicles, which were getting expired, were being refurbished.
Special Assistant to PM on Media Iftikhar Durrani said as many as 550 international flights were operating per week under the open skies policy in 2008, but unfortunately the number gradually declined to 376 flights during the next 10 years in tenures of Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
Ironically, he said, the PIA started facing crisis with the 'taking-off 'of the democracy under the Charter of Democracy, adding "Exactly, it is a classic case study of mis-governance from 2008-17."
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