This was revealed by PIA’s Advisor and Consultant Haider Jalal at a marketing conference held to appreciate the performance of top 20 agents of which 10 were International Air Transport Agents (IATA) and10 Passenger Sales Agents.
PIA also discussed its strategy for 2012 and assured its full support and commitment to the Travel Agents, so that together they could achieve benefits for all stakeholders.
PIA also announced a revised and reduced refund charges on International routes from Rs13000 to Rs8000. PIA has simultaneously revised and decreased Change of Booking (COB) charges on its International flights from Rs8000 to Rs4000.
No-Show charges for passengers travelling to International destinations have been reduced from Rs13000 to Rs6000. Similarly all sale agents for USA, Canada, UK, and Europe have been given incentives for further improvement in sales and growth in revenue.
Travel Agents applauded PIA’s efforts and cooperation and the decrease in Refund, No Show and COB charges.
The meeting was chaired by Advisor and Consultant Haider Jalal and attended by General Manager Passenger Sales Maj. Khurram Mushtaq, GM Revenue Management Tahir Niaz, DGM Pakistan Naveed, DM Lahore, Manager Passenger Sales Corporate Asadullah Ghauri, Passenger Sales Manager M. Shafiq, Assistant Passenger Sales Manager Dr Muqadam and other marketing officials.
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Every company in Pakistan should announce its annual profit publically. Also number of employees like other international companies do.
i think enough is said in above posts... even to comment in such flimsy made up numbers is wastage of time for all of us. This airline is broken and on its way down the drain just like rest of the economy. Why bother..
Increase in sales by itself means nothing (considering airfares just keep on going up). What about profit and losses? What is the increase or decrease in losses? What is the strategy moving forward? What will be done about the aircrafts which are grounded? Will replacements be bought and if so much will it cost? How is domestic business doing in comparison to international fligh operations?
A typical wishy washy statement with no meaning.
Unless they are cooking numbers, this sounds questionable. Even if they are right, what is the sales growth based on? volume of flights or tickets? unlikely since significant part of the fleet was grounded. That means, most likely they are referring to increase in revenues, which combined together with lower operating capacity means they were significantly over-charging customers. This means the flip side of this temporary growth will show up in the coming years when loyal customers start looking elsewhere for cheaper alternatives with better quality.