PIA asks passengers to report five hours before flight from new Islamabad airport

Twitter was not pleased with the announcement

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) made a special announcement on Thursday and asked passengers to report to Islamabad International Airport (IIA) five hours before their international flight departure.

The announcement by the national carrier stated that the announcement was being made in light of "the traffic congestion due to strict security checks", further stating their topmost priority was their customers' convenience.



https://twitter.com/Official_PIA/status/994476041027670016

However, people on Twitter are definitely not happy with the announcement, leading to a myriad of sarcastic comments and funny retorts aimed at the national carrier.

Some wondered if even five hours was enough..

Why PIA is not arranging hotel stay at Airports to call passengers 24 hours earlier for proper security check?

— Ibrar Hussain (@Ibrarabbasi) May 10, 2018

https://twitter.com/Sehroo_Sehrish/status/994506968734806017

https://twitter.com/axmedkhokhar/status/994506611367534592

Serious question, though..

https://twitter.com/sadamengr_/status/994494832646160391

Some people were right to bring up PIA and their flight delays

https://twitter.com/IftikharAyoub/status/994504889408655360

If after 05 hrs u guys said flight delay then ??? It’s happened too many times with me

— Ch Nasir🇵🇰 (@NasirGemini1) May 10, 2018

We were asked to do the same for karachi airport. Can u pls explain why would anyone take pia seriously. The funniest thing is that when we arrived four hours earlier, the counters hadn’t even opened and we were told by staff at pia shouldn’t have asked u to come early.

— Sadpakistani (@sadafjd) May 10, 2018