PIA's woes continue

PIA’s woes continued as flights continued to be cancelled or delayed despite notice taken by the prime minister.

Express September 14, 2010

PIA’s woes continued as flights continued to be cancelled or delayed on Tuesday despite notice taken by the prime minister in this regard.

Passengers at Jeddah airport protested against the muddled flight schedule. PIA's flight schedule has remained disturbed since September 6 whereby thousands of passengers were left stranded.

However, PIA arranged seven to eight flights from Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and Karachi to bring back passengers but these flights faced delays of up to 14 to 27 hours.

Meanwhile, PIA spokesman Sultan Hassan said the problem occurred due to the unexpected influx of passengers and closure of Jeddah airport.

Flights have now been rescheduled after talks with Saudi aviation.

COMMENTS (1)

T. Ali | 13 years ago | Reply Can your newspaper kindly investigate that how flights of Emirates, Qatar, Iran Air, Garuda, Air India, Egypt, Etihad etc are operating on schedule out of Jeddah carrying umra passengers and this so called congestion at Jeddah is disturbing only PIA schedules. This is all due to incompetence, bad flight schedule planning, weak coordination and poor maintenance. PIA as usual like the last post Haj and Umra operation has booked a large number of passengers for return flights without catering for sufficient departure space at Jeddah Haj Terminal, which is available on first come first serve basis. In addition proper planned departure slots have not been taken well in advance at Jeddah. The dealys are not just confined to Jeddah flights because they extend to Riyadh, Abudhabi, Bangkok, Newyork, Manchestor etc flights in addition to domestic flights. The system has collapsed becuase of mismanagemt by an incompetent management appointed without any merit. While the government has closed its eyes, it is the unfortunate passengers who are suffering only, while these cronies are destroying an airline.

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