Hajj Operations: PIA pilots assure timely flights

KARACHI: Pakistan Airlines Pilots Association (Palpa) on Monday assured PIA management of its support for Hajj flight operations without compromising any safety rules, a Palpa press release said. In a meeting with Palpa’s President Suhail Baluch, PIA MD Captain Nadeem Yousufzai sought support of member pilots in order to operate Hajj flights without any delay. Baluch assured the association’s support for carrying out Hajj operations and offered to operate flights with single set instead of augmented crew in Hajj operations provided Civil Aviation Authority gives consent to proposal and no safety measures are compromised.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 4^th, 2011.