Mere addition of aircraft will not improve the airline’s dwindling financial fortunes and a major surgery is needed.
LAHORE: When the prime minister promised that he would restore PIA to its past glory, people expected drastic changes in its management, governing board and policies. Instead, the organisation has been left for the past six months in the hands of the same people who were initially responsible for making it into an entity with surplus employees, grounded aircraft and fast-depleting revenues. A controversial senior manager, during whose tenure an artificial shortage of seats was created, continues to be part of the airline management.
If only PIA could have a chief executive of the calibre, acumen and integrity of Nur Khan, it can still regain its lost glory. PIA needs a complete change in its team, which for the past decade has driven it from a vibrant profitable airline of repute to an organisation dominated by mediocrity driven to insolvency by design. The mere addition of aircraft will not improve the airline’s dwindling financial fortunes and a major surgery is needed.
Malik Tariq Ali
Published in The Express Tribune, December 14th, 2013.
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