Pakistan

Passengers 'damage' PIA Premier aircraft

PIA spokesperson urges people to take care of the recently inducted aircraft

News Desk August 18, 2016

PIA spokesperson says passengers need to learn manners. PHOTO: PML-N

Just days after the launch of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Premier, passengers 'damaged' a London-bound flight.

Upon its arrival in London on Wednesday, one of the recently inducted A-330s looked nothing like a new plane as people had thrown litter everywhere and stolen bottles of lotion.

PM inaugurates PIA's premier service

PIA Spokesperson Daniyal Gilani took to Twitter to post pictures of PK-785 on its arrival in London. "This is how our new A-330 looked like on arrival in London yesterday. Litter. Lotions stolen. Passengers please take care of PIA premier," he wrote.

This is how r new A330 lookd like upon arrival in Lon yest. Litter.Lotions stolen. Pax plz take care of #PIAPremier pic.twitter.com/GdZBhCmA00
— Cultural Maverick (@CulturalMaverik) August 18, 2016

Whoever stole the lotion was travelling on Business class. And yes Pakistanis littered the plane on 1st flight. https://t.co/3ScZFQgxjd
— Tahir Imran Mian ✈ (@TahirImran) August 18, 2016

Responding to questions regarding the situation, Gilani wrote, "No passenger is allowed to damage public property," adding that other airlines "ban" such passengers.

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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated on Sunday (country’s 70^thIndependence Day) PIA’s Premier service at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad.

Heads of PIA and Sri Lankan Airlines were also present on the occasion.

The first flight of the airline’s premier service, which introduces better in-flight entertainment, among other features, departed for London, according to Radio Pakistan.

The national flag carrier has also announced to arrange complimentary limousine service for its Premier Business Class (PBC) customers upon their arrival at London’s Heathrow airport. The airline had, last month, signed an agreement with the Sri Lankan Airlines to acquire its three A-330s, which are in surplus, on wet lease. The first of the three aircraft landed at Karachi airport on August 6, and the remaining two are expected to arrive by February 2017.

COMMENTS (32)

S M Khan | 8 years ago | Reply Vast majority of Pak origin passengers do tend to litter everywhere they go, be it aircraft, airport, motorway or bus service. Reason is lack of education and manners. We have to educate them with patience and perseverance. There is no short cut and blame games don't help.

London Banker | 8 years ago | Reply @Judas Priest: I'll ignore your hypocritical and hateful speech against the people of Southall and Bradford although I have no connection to either. Also don't have a family here but let me tell you this; you can enjoy your third class ticket on a third class airline where the airline's PR puts such things on social media and kicks up a fuss. I am happy to fly Qatar / Emirates / Etihad. Those who demand second hand standards like you - get second hand standards. If you read my post, I did say it was all wrong but at the same time it gives no right to a failing airline like PIA to be arrogant and label all people who chose to travel with it.

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Sandip | 8 years ago | Reply @Haji Atiya: Not about covering bases, but being fair. Some are never accountable, even for murder.

Harris | 8 years ago | Reply How come the same Pakistanis behave differently on an Emirates or Qatar airways....

Pakistan Zindabad | 8 years ago | Reply Plot twist, "Those were the seats of PM and the family."

Haji Atiya | 8 years ago | Reply @Sandip: Ok, lets blame them all and cover all bases ! Happy ?

sterry | 8 years ago | Reply @John Doe: Come on Mr. India, your comments probably have to do with your own obsession. You must remember that a lot of the people travelling to UK probably live in council flats or ghettos because they are on social assistance. Such people have issues with authority and proper behavior but PIA is doing a good job by introducing Premier Service since most Pakistanis like me still prefer to take PIA over any other airline.

Judas Priest | 8 years ago | Reply @London Banker: Maybe that is how you & your family live in your house in ghettos of southhall or bradford but that's not how civilized people live.

Saad | 8 years ago | Reply I can only say one thing IF PAKISTANI PEOPLE ARE ILL-MANNERED AND ILLETERATE THEN WHAT CAN U EXPECT FROM PAKISTANI LEADERS AND PIA STAFFs

Sandip | 8 years ago | Reply @Haji Atiya: Forget the rank and file. Didn't you see how Musharraf behaved? As if he was some mohalla gang leader. A classless fellow. And this was supposedly from a place where they teach manners and etiquette as well as coming from a so-called elite family of Pakistan. Why keep blaming the rank and file all the time.

Jacob Busse | 8 years ago | Reply I've traveled on pretty much every international airline out there over the years including those of South asian countries like Indian airlines & Biman airlines. This was the first time I traveled via PIA on a connection to London from Singapore and this will be my last. Sorry to say but Pakistanis are the most uncivilized group of all human species I have ever encountered.

Sabir | 8 years ago | Reply What is the point for making such mess on the floor and trash seats on any flight. Its the people behaviour not PIA. The same people will behave if thrown out of plane. Some people will do anything to show their attitude. They been taut by there parent to live like beast.

Rollin & Trollin | 8 years ago | Reply @Imran Qadri: They should install those cameras at wedding parties as well and project on a large panoramic screen all those people who make a mad scramble to monopolize all the food and block other people from getting their fair share !

Imran Qadri | 8 years ago | Reply Install CCTV cameras inside the plane and display live feed from different cameras on large overhead lcd display. They might start behaving.

M.S. | 8 years ago | Reply Short distance PIA flights are tolerable but long distance flights in which little devils cry and jump around while their lazy, uncaring mothers sleep like snow bears resemble like a zoo. Avoid them at any cost.

سے Shaam (Hanafi) | 8 years ago | Reply Taleem and Tarbiat deficiency...They do the same on the streets, nothing new, they should have taken pictures and shammed them. Poor staff,can't say anything,else they will get a termination notice.

KD | 8 years ago | Reply blame the freeloaders.. one who cant afford premium tickets will take out their frustration on the plane, or the air-hostess! PIA management should keep check on these "sifarshi" passengers

AK | 8 years ago | Reply If PIA stops non-revenue (parasites) then this problem would generally not arise. It is the duty of the crew to keep the aircraft clean. As a PIA passenger, I have often been forced to clean the toilet before using it. When I travel by other major airlines, the toilet is periodically cleaned by the crew. PIA needs to imbibe a service-based mentality and stop blaming passengers (by passengers I mean fare paying ones, not FREE LOADERS).

Dr.M.M.Khan | 8 years ago | Reply The inside of the plane reflects the habits of the Pakistanis. Why are we surprised?

A-No.1 | 8 years ago | Reply Probably half the passengers were second or third generation Pak origin British citizens. Village mentality, literate illiteracy. Refusal to learn civility. No wonder they are at the bottom.

Kushal | 8 years ago | Reply Hope Sri Lankans have learnt their lesson by now.

London Banker | 8 years ago | Reply I can sympathise with some of this but this is how most flights end up even the ones from London to New York - PIA needs to get off its high horse. "Littered" the plane - Well if you have kids on board and are stuck in 1 foot by 1 foot space for 7 hours at 30,000 feet, this happens... in every plane... in every country. So get over it and clean it, its not your personal plane. And what about "stolen" bottles of lotion. Agreed, they should not be stolen but this is also a message to the airline to provide a 200Rs. bottle of lotion to its business class passengers who pay 250,000 a ticket?

Abid Azam | 8 years ago | Reply This is totally unacceptable! It's not about PIA only, if you go to hiking trails, public parks, northern areas, Pakistanis have ruined the places with wrapers, plastic bags & bottles. and I am especially talking about previliged and educated people who are traveling via business class, and spending their off time in the beautiful northern areas. There is no justification of mistrust of governance here and this is SHAMEFUL and insane whoever comes with lame justification of incompetent authorities for not cleaning the stuff. High time we take the responsibility and stop messing the country and blaming everything on the government.

Dan Qayyum | 8 years ago | Reply Every longhaul flight has some littering particularly those with child pax and/or turbulence. See it on every flight. Kids spilling their cereal or peanut packets all over the floor is nothing unusual. Neither is people throwing up during turbulence. Cleaners are employed for exactly this. Moreoever, the Eyüp Sabri Tuncer lotions PIA are complaining about are barely worth $2, less than PKR 200. Hardly 'premier'. The cost for all of this is built into your ticket prices. What else can you expect from an airline whose PR spox rants on twitter that passengers should take care of 'PIA Premier' instead of the airline taking care of its passengers. 'Premier' service with an Economy-Saver mentality!

Saeed Masood | 8 years ago | Reply Cheap passengers and air staff not cleaning and doing their duty.

Umar Buttar | 8 years ago | Reply Seriously ! One shouldn't have done that whether It was a New or ancient PIA and its even more shameless when people start comparing trash vs trash.

Haji Atiya | 8 years ago | Reply @salman: Probably most of that trash was caused by our homies. No, not "get over it" but rather smarten up !

salman | 8 years ago | Reply That's not trashed, that's just mess. Nothing a cleaning crew can't handle. I've seen Emirates flights from London to Dubai in much worse states. Get over it.....

MA | 8 years ago | Reply reap what you sow!

John Doe | 8 years ago | Reply Now you know exactly why Pakistanis are hated in the western world.

Haji Atiya | 8 years ago | Reply Fact of the matter is that we like to blame our leaders but a good percentage of the rank and file behave as if they've just been released from a zoo ! No manners, no discipline, no order, no etiquette...

Khan | 8 years ago | Reply Shenanigans of the freeloaders rampant in Business Class. Kin of same bunch of parasites sucking the country dry. No paying passenger of business class would recklessly damage the service. PIA needs to inform PM to curb facilities of freeloaders.

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