PIA LOSSES DUE TO PAKISTAN ARMY AND ITS SANCTIONED POLTICAL PARTIES

By Ahmed Yusuf

Commitment to Privatize with IMF and World Bank by PMLn to Spend money on Lahore only : 

The last time we discovered that the national flag carrier, the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), was a burden to the economy, early 2016, two men and PIA staff  died in the protests surrounding the proposed panacea of privatisation. The process got stalled, at least for six months. Six months turned into a year, a year is running towards the second, but as of now, PIA is officially a burden once again.

At its November 2, 2017 meeting, the Privatisation Commission decided to “reinitiate” the process of privatising the PIA — a commitment made by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) when it secured a 6.2 billion dollar bailout.

A mammoth organisation buried under 300 billion rupees of debt, PIA had been spared privatisation in 2016 after it was converted into a public limited company (PIACL) by a joint session of parliament. This was despite the fact that the airlines has one of the highest employees per plane ratio — there are currently 29 aircrafts operating for PIA including three on wet lease. Over 13,700 permanent employees and 3,700 daily wagers employed through third-party vendors are engaged in various services relating to daily operations.

The law converting PIA into a public limited company was called the PIAC Conversion Act, 2016, and included a bar on the federal government trying to transfer ownership of the entity. What could be sold was the management of the airline; ownership would always stay with the government as they would retain a majority share with 51 percent.

A mistake of Privatisation of PIA 

The Privatisation Commission is now seeking a reversal of this rule because it would pave the way for the government to sell ownership, and not just management, of the airline.

Without a doubt, PIA is jetting towards doom. Which begs the question: has there been such little turnaround in the fortunes of the national flag carrier that it remains a priority to sell? And who is responsible?

No doubt the resumption of the privatisation process will spark labour protests once again — a sub-plot centres round the PIA unions’ support (or lack of it) to the PML-N. Talk of privatisation is seen by labour leaders as an attempt to rein them in. But in truth, PIA’s troubles go far beyond the everyday operational issues or ordinary workers’ resentment at being taken for a ride. The big issues lie elsewhere.

The man in the PIA cockpit is Irfan Elahi, the chairman of the organisation. His tenure is marked by a number of murky deals and practices that have either seen the bypassing of PIA bylaws or decisions made to the outright detriment to the organisation. Some of Elahi’s choices have had larger consequences to the organisation, to the extent that the last PIACL board of directors meeting boiled over after a director questioned him about some deals struck.

Let’s suppose Elahi is exceeding his boundaries as chairman of the PIACL boards of directors, the question really is who can possibly stop him? The board, perhaps. And if they fail, the Aviation Secretary of the Cabinet Division Secretariat. Here’s the twist: how can someone summon themselves — Elahi is also the aviation secretary.

The conflict of interest is perhaps not his fault. But when life gives lemons, make lemonade and corrupt Punjabi are making money .

Although bureaucratic nonchalance comes with the territory, hiring and posting irregularities — an almost universally accepted baseline for nepotism — is the least of the allegations against Elahi. The big charges relate to the concentration of power, the operational opacity this omnipotence allows, as well as the siphoning of taxpayer money to companies abroad without receiving any services in return.

The allegations against Elahi also relate to certain power wielders (and their relatives) benefitting on account of the national flag carrier. They have to do with a plane that went missing in Pakistan, only to pop up in Germany. They also relate to the acting chief executive officer, a German, who has a criminal case against him in Pakistani courts but cannot return to the country to testify — allegedly at Elahi’s behest.

The following four stories have largely been extracted from official PIA paperwork and correspondence that were exchanged, copies of which are available with Eos. Each story points to instances of how damage was dealt to the interests of the national flag carrier. The common link is Irfan Elahi, the man in whom trust was reposed to steer PIA away from turbulence.

The case of the Pakistani aircraft that popped up in Germany

Central to all allegations about a plane that went missing and popped up in Germany is former Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bernd Hildenbrand.

To recap: an Airbus-310 (A-310) that was owned by PIA was first rented out to a film company by Procurement Director Air Commodore (retd) Imran Akhtar, brother of former director general of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Rizwan Akhtar. The plane was flown to Malta for the film company.

The A-310 was a “fly-worthy” aircraft. And yet, with it having been taken out of service for filming purposes, it never returned to the PIA fleet. Three departments — Marketing, Finance and Corporate Planning — were entirely bypassed by the procurement director. And the plane itself landed in Germany, in Leipzig, to be displayed at a museum.

Till recently, PIA had been claiming that the plane was never sold in the first place and it still had ownership of the plane. In truth, Akhtar removed Operations, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, and Corporate Planning from the loop and made the transaction without any kind of approval from the board of directors. The plane had working auxiliary power units, avionics and landing gears, among other parts. The film company offered 245,000 Euros for the aircraft while the German museum charged 45,000 Euros in marketing fees for displaying the aircraft in their museum.

The issue was raised in a Senate sub-committee session. This was attented by Irfan Elahi, 13 senators including Muzzaffar Hussain Shah, Gen Qayyum, Farhatullah Babar, Mushahidullah, Sherry Rehman and others. Senator Saleem Mandviwalla took the dais with documents claiming that just the fuel cost incurred by the national flag carrier was far greater than the sum paid by the film company.

While Bernd Hildenbrand is accused of having flown the plane to Germany, the role of Air force officer and brother or ISI chief Imran Akhtar has escaped public scrutiny. He could only have used and abused the aircraft if he had the permission of the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) to do so.

And ex Defence Officer  did: writing to the civil aviation, Akhtar asked for its de-registration from the aviation authority, even though that wasn’t his job to begin with. And to make matters more complicated, well-placed sources claim that influential quarters are now trying to have that letter expunged from the records so as to camouflage the act.

How did Air Commodore Imran Akhtar get away with it?

Because at the helm of the PCAA is a friend: Irfan Elahi, also the chairman of PIA and the aviation secretary.

As the clamour increased at home about where the A-310 had disappeared, an inquiry was set up to probe the matter. The inquiry report was finally penned by two officers, Legal Advisor Ahmed Rauf and Chief Internal Auditor Javed Mansha.

They held German Hildenbrand and Air Commodore  Akhtar brother or ISI chief  responsible for the fiasco, asking the latter why he initiated the loan and sale of the aircraft when he wasn’t authorised to do so in the first place. The probe report raised questions about why the three departments that should have been in the loop for the sale of the aircraft were bypassed. It also claimed that Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) rules had not been followed and due process was bulldozed.

In a statement issued by Senator Saleem Mandviwalla later on, the politician reiterated the claim that the A-310 had been sold without any award of a tender. “The market value of PIA’s A-310 was in millions of dollars but it was sold for just 5.3 million rupees,” he said.

Notwithstanding the inquiry, the fly-worthy aircraft had been sold for the price of scrap. But after its sale, a tender was finally issued in Pakistani newspapers while the plane was parked in Leipzig. No potential buyer in Pakistan could physically inspect the plane. The advertisement wasn’t printed in German newspapers and that precluded any potential buyers in Europe. The bottom-line, however, was that a tender was issued on an asset that PIA didn’t own at that point.

Such was the gravity of the case that the incumbent air chief, Sohail Aman, issued a statement declaring that if Air Commodore Imran Akhtar brother of Pakistan ISi  is indeed caught by the National Accountability Bureau or the Federal Investigation Agency, the air force would not stand by their man (who was in service at the time). A few days later, ISI chief Rizwan Akhtar resigned from service, because of Disgrace his family  caused to Pakistan and it's state and currently rumours are that he is now in Saudia serving the Saudi army .

PIA’s crash and fall: the case of administrative chaos

On December 21, 2016, Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif announced a major reshuffle of the bureaucracy. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was without a chairman at the time, as the old one, Azam Saigol, had resigned after an aircraft, PK-661, travelling from Chitral to Islamabad crashed near Havelian. The incident claimed the lives of 47 passengers and crew members. PM Sharif handed PIA to Aviation Secretary Irfan Elahi, marking the latter’s second tenure as chairman of the national flag carrier.

The outgoing chairman had brought in a former professional of German airlines Lufthansa, Bernd Hildenbrand, first as a chief operating officer (COO) before elevating him to the position of acting chief executive officer (CEO). Both Saigol and Hildenbrand had seen an upturn in PIA fortunes — a product of making infrastructural upgrades and changing its branding. New planes were being leased, flights had achieved “90 percent” punctuality, and PIA passengers had increased by one million.

But of course Hildenbrand was not Elahi’s choice.

In fact Hildenbrand was interviewed and hired by former aviation advisor to the PM, Shujaat Azeem. Since the German was over 60 years of age, approval was sought from the PM to relax rules. Similarly, the requirement of a business degree was relaxed as Hildenbrand’s aviation diploma from Lufthansa was acceopted as a valid certification. However, the German later became embroiled in a number of corruption cases — the most prominent of which is the sale of an A-310 aircraft which is currently abandoned at the cargo port in Leipzig, Germany. In February this year, Hildenbrand was removed from his CEO post and demoted to COO once again.

In April this year, he was removed from PIA altogether. Hildenbrand left the country on May 4, 2017 after his name was put on the ECL and mysteriously removed following the German Embassy’s intervention. Interestingly, nothing written in black and white was given to Hildenbrand as an explanation or show-cause notice. The charge-sheet issued to him does not have the chairman’s signatures but that of then human resources director.

The incoming chairman, Elahi, now had to hire a new CEO and a new COO. A new chairman coming into an organisation floored by debt ought to have brought in competent professionals to help drag the airlines out of the doldrums. Not Elahi — he handpicked the CEO and COO, both of whom did not come from aviation backgrounds. Indeed among the eight candidates (out of 11) who met the criteria set for the CEO’s post were former managing directors of the PIA, Ijaz Haroon and Junaid Younus. And yet, Musharraf Rasool Cyan became the CEO while the COO chosen was Zia Qadir Qureshi as he was from PMLn.

A university teacher by profession and without any aviation experience, Cyan submitted documents with two different dates of birth: the date on his Matriculation certificate is March 12, 1967. The date of birth according to his CNIC is November 4, 1967. According to chapter 34 of the PIA Personnel Policies Manual, only a matriculation certificate or a valid birth certificate could be accepted at the time of hiring. Cyan then had to submit an affidavit declaring that the date of birth on the CNIC is correct. “This was only a one-time requirement,” claims PIA spokesperson Mashood Tajwar. “If the discrepancy is solved at the start, then there is no problem.”

Here’s the twist: more than 350 employees have already been dismissed on charges of discrepancies in their dates of birth as detailed on CNICs and educational documents. About 250 cases on the same issue are also pending with the PIA administration.

In the case of Qureshi, he assumed responsibilities in PIA on July 14, 2017 on a two-year contract. The problem was he would turn 60 on October 30, 2017 — three months after being hired. The rules dictate that the PM issue a formal approval for employment if an employee has to work beyond the age of 60 years.

But approval didn’t come easily; PIA had to write twice to the Aviation Division to have it approved from the PM. Terming it a non-issue, Tajwar “believes” this matter has been resolved and approval has been granted.

But both hirings set the tone of Elahi’s PIA. Hirings and firings came on ad-hoc basis, often without any justifications. In Passenger Sales, for example, General Manager Nausherwan Adil and Deputy General Manager Zubair Memon were removed from their positions without any accusation. Similarly Chief Human Resources Officer Raheel Ahmed as well as general managers Zafar Ali, Akbar Shah and Mehdi Chingezi were all removed from their positions without any charges formally being brought against them.

Well-placed sources claim that those removed from service did not see eye-to-eye with the chairman on many affairs, including double promotions awarded from PG-VIII to PG-X on a single day. In fact the former human resources director, Raheel Ahmed, is said to have been removed after the chairman found out that Cyan and Qureshi’s credentials had been leaked to the media. The chairman assumed Ahmed as the source of the leaks and removed him from service.

Meanwhile, on the PIA WhatsApp group ­— which is a means of communication between senior officers — there are rumblings of dissent and dismay at how the national carrier is being run. Some senior personnel have announced that they intend to leave the airline rather than being made scapegoats for the questionable decisions being taken by senior bureaucrats, who they feel will escape accountability.

The Scandal of the New York route

Without any warning came the proclamation that the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was shutting down its New York City operations. The argument made was that the expenses incurred by PIA on flying to New York did not make financial sense to the company anymore. Five weekly flights would fly to New York and three other American cities but PIA is now considering surrendering the route altogether. With a significant population of expatriates living in the United States, this decision predictably evoked great hue and cry.

On November 22, 2017, PIA Chairman Irfan Elahi appeared before the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs to make the claim that, last year, the airline incurred losses of 1.5 billion rupees from its New York operations. He argued that the airline had been saddled with such losses for the past 10-12 years.

When approached, PIA spokesman Mashood Tajwar explained that the route to New York involved a stopover in Manchester. This means that the cost to fly to New York also included airport and cargo handling charges incurred in Manchester. Negating the notion of surrendering the New York route, he termed it the suspension of New York operations.

Notwithstanding the operational details, if PIA’s official version is indeed considered, it begs the question: why can’t New York operation be merged with Toronto operations, given that PIA flies non-stop to Toronto.

The additional costs incurred in Manchester are a valid concern, even though the stopover in Manchester is primarily for security checks. Passengers cannot disembark at the airport while the number of new passengers from London to New York is also not significant.

Meanwhile, when costs are compared between the New York route and the Toronto route, there is great similarity in the finances expended. The fuel cost is almost the same as is the crew cost (cockpit crew and cabin crew). Costs for landing an aircraft, parking and housing it are the same, and the turnaround costs (time during which the aircraft must remain parked at the gate) are also the same. Some insiders question why one route is considered profitable while the other has been shut down.

Notwithstanding the operational details, if PIA’s official version is indeed considered, it begs the question: why can’t New York operation be merged with Toronto operations, given that PIA flies non-stop to Toronto. Official word is that Toronto itself is a profit-making route and therefore cannot be saddled with the burden of passengers heading to New York.

Indeed New York is a hub that connects various flights with different destinations, some not even in the United States. Routes are not just obtained for a substantial sum of money; their approval is contingent on factors such as power connections and diplomatic relations. And once surrendered, they cannot be re-obtained within a matter of days or months.

In the case of New York, a route surrendered means that flight operations have been given up for good since there are a limited number of slots available. Etihad Airways, for example, is a recent phenomenon. And when they applied to the John F Kennedy Airport for a slot, they were turned down simply because the Americans had no space to accommodate another airline.

But PIA can also surrender the route in favour of another airline. Word from the inside is that this route is being surrendered to Etihad Airways, although Tajwar denies such an eventuality.

“We are locked in discussions with the Americans to provide us permission to fly directly to New York,” he says. “We aren’t surrendering the route to any Middle Eastern airlines.”

Scandal of spending billions on useless ventures that made PIA by Making more Losses for PIA 

The hallmark of Bernd Hildenbrand’s tenure as the chief executive officer of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was to induct new planes into the national flag carrier’s fleet as he went about modernising infrastructure in the airlines.

One of the services started by Hildenbrand was the Premier Service — a deluxe way to travel to London with three aircrafts acquired on a wet-lease from Sri Lankan Airlines. Six flights were scheduled for London every week, three each from Islamabad and Lahore. Unlike the regular service, the Premier aircraft was equipped with LCD screens and an expensive in-flight entertainment system with 250 channels. Business-class passengers could sleep on flat beds to make their journey more comfortable. The service was inaugurated by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on August 14, 2016.

Although 3.9 billion rupees were spent on launching the service, even its experimental stage was not well thought-out. For example, the airfare for the premium service was not increased while there was just one aircraft doing the rounds and no other backup aircraft was readied. Instead a substantial cost was incurred on specialised crew, new crew uniforms, as well as new logo and branding.

The Premier Service bagged 1.8 billion rupees in revenue between August 14, 2016 and December 31, 2016, according to statistics revealed by the Aviation Division at the time. The losses incurred in the same period were 2.1 billion rupees.

But perhaps the bigger scam was in Limisione service provided for free

The new service offered a complimentary limousine for business-class passengers, anywhere within a radius of 25 km from the London Heathrow. The usual cost for such a distance is 45 pounds but PIA were paying 95 pounds for each business class passenger.

There were 25 business class seats in the PIA Premier aircraft. And so the amount paid to the limousine vendor for one trip to London was 2,375 pounds. With six flights in a week, the weekly payment to the vendor was 9,500 pounds and the monthly amounts to 38,000 pounds or 5,282,000 rupees.

Here’s the twist: the limousine vendor was the third brother of former ISI chief Rizwan Akhtar and PIA Procurement Director Imran Akhtar.

Another case of dubious intent is that of a Boeing 777 aircraft which was acquired to fly on international routes. When inducted into the fleet, the 777 plane’s original seats needed to be removed and new ones installed, as per PIA’s seats requirements. Elahi’s PIA engaged with a foreign company for the job, deeming it undoable in Pakistan. This raised many eyebrows but according to PIA spokesman Mashood Tajwar, the dispute is over the number of planes being re-hauled by the company.

Well-placed sources claim that payment of a couple of billion rupees was made in advance — against the rules and without a bank guarantee — for the job that was yet to be carried out. The job never got done, claim insiders, also alleging that a substantial amount returned to Pakistan in kickbacks.

The writer tweets @ASYusuf

Published in Dawn, November 26th, 2017 : https://www.dawn.com/news/1372939

Open skies policy damaging PIA only as it is Targeted by PM family Interests

PIA the Only Victim of Open Air Policies 

Measures Introduced by Mian Nawaz Sharif in 1992 is Making PIA Make Loses because he wanted his Own Airline """"Airblue""""  with His Shares in it and run by His cabinet Minister Khaqan Abbasi ,  to replace PIA and is Hurting Pakistan National Interest and Hurting and Endangering PIA Employees Jobs and also Making an Asset of Pakistan as Loss Making Entity and Making  it Loose a Lot of Routes to Arabic countries Airline Like Emirates , Air Arabia and  Eitihad which are Provided Big Subsidies by the Wahabi Arab Dictator Kings and who have Oil Wells as their Personal Property that cant be Matched by any country , Furthermore the Deobandi,  Raiwind Based Business man Nawaz Sharif has religious Links with Wahabi Kings from Deobandi a Wahabi Based Religion and also his one of his Brothers Daughter is Married to Saudi Royals during his stay in Saudia Arabia after he was exiled by Pakistan Army General Musharaf for Sedation and Murder .  

LAHORE: The National Aviation Policy 2015’s continuation of the open skies policy adopted in 1992 is likely to hit the National Carrier (PIA) hard as its total international destinations have been reduced to 30 from 60 since the adoption of this policy.

The national aviation policy disclosed that the international passenger traffic from Pakistan has registered a 20% increase in the past four years (5% average growth per annum) but it ignored that the share of growth of the local airlines has been steeply negative.

‘This is happening due to the open sky policy that was first introduced in Pakistan in 1992. At that time, PIA had 42 aircrafts and over 60 international routes. Since the introduction of the open sky policy, foreign airlines gained access to Pakistan and started expanding their operations following the lead of PIA,’ said former deputy managing director (DMD) PIA, Khursheed Anwar.

PIA operates with only 18 operational aircrafts and flies to a mere less than 30 international destinations. ‘Routes and networks are considered to be the main strategic asset of any commercial airline. Countries through their policies and practices strive to protect and safeguard the commercial interests of their airlines,’ added the expert.

The criticism of open sky policies is not just a local affair; it in fact is one the most heated issues across the world where the airlines of even the most developed countries are objecting to it. US Pilots Association has initiated a campaign to restrict some foreign airlines in the US as they feel these airlines have introduced unfair competition and posed threats to jobs and long-term viability of US airline industry.

The National Aviation Policy defends the approach of open skies, though the same is now being challenged by its pioneers (the US and European carriers). In the policy, the reason for growth in traffic in the leading emerging economies of the world including China, Korea, India and Malaysia is wrongly attributed to the policy of open skies and liberalization, the expert added.

The non-native airlines are offering relatively cheap fares; they are carrying Pakistani passengers from their (foreign airlines’) airports to various destinations, especially to Europe and USA. ‘Pakistani airlines are therefore progressively losing their market share,’ said an Aviation expert.

According to an estimate, over $500 million business can be diverted to Pakistani airlines only if the service agreements of the foreign airlines are reviewed and rationalized, said the expert.

Furthermore, he added, a brotherly Muslim country’s airline has started carrying more and more passengers from Pakistan to USA, UK and other countries. ‘Even most developed countries, including USA, Japan and the UK who claim to be champions of liberalization and deregulation ensure protection to the commercial interests of their airlines. ‘For example, PIA since long has been trying to get traffic rights from London to East Coast of USA or from Tokyo to West Coast of USA, and the aviation authorities for both routes have continually declined several requests made by PIA,’ reasoned the expert.

While Pakistani airlines are not getting any help, some foreign airlines are getting massive subsides of billions of dollars from their respective governments, he said, adding that as per the fundamental principle of reciprocity and bilateralism, the frequency and capacity of flights between any two countries is always based upon the potential flow of genuine traffic between the respective countries.

PIA General Manager Public Relations Amir Memon said that in the era of open market economy, a conservative aviation policy would only alienate the country and damage revenues. He said that PIA’s market edge is its direct flights which are not being challenged by these non-native airlines carrying local passengers. He also mentioned that PIA is procuring more aircrafts as two A320’s would be added to the fleet in the next couple of months while four more aircrafts would be added to the fleet by the end of the year. This would further allow the national carrier to benefit from the policy instead of being a victim of it.

source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-37253-Open-skies-policy-damaging-PIA

PIA CABIN CREW FORCED TO USE ROAD TRANSPORT

PIA seems to Amaze People with its Mismanagement under the Current government of PM Nawaz Sharif a man with His Rags to Riches story being part of Punjabi Establishment, he an Immigrant from Amritsar India and settling in Lahore with nothing in Assets and now a Multi Billionaire after His 3 Stints as PM Pakistan.

PM Nawaz and Shujat Azeem 

This Man seems to forget he is accountable to People of Pakistan who has voted him in Power and his Treatment of Peshawar and Pashtuns is both insulting and degrading, after his Tales of Corruption and Mishandling of Airline in Deliberate Manner so that he can buy it as his Airline .

Management of Shujat Azeem a Retired Pakistan Air force Officer as PIA Head

It is shocking that, he is treating the PIA Female cabin Crew from Peshawar, who Operates flights, employees in Insulting and degrading Manner that his Higher Management hand picked and selected by Nawaz Sharif and Famous Shujat Azeem is one such Guy who is running PIA . 

Shujaat Azim is a dual national, as he holds Canadian nationality also besides he was court-martialed in the past from Pakistan Air force disgracefully. 

Court Martialed Air Force officer 

Management of PIA is forcing the cabin crew of Peshawar base to travel in Daewoo Buses on road, on duty and in uniform then asking the Female cabin crew to Pay the Ticket of Public Transport from their own pockets while they are getting the Meager salary of 20,000 Rupees.

Most of female Cabin Crew was seen recently traveling in Daewoo Buss from Rawalpindi to Peshawar and this is has been Happening for last one Year the whole 2014.

Once Mr. Mohsin Shah asked Mr Beenish one of Cabin Crew from Peshawar  to travel at  1 Am at night in Public while being completely Alone and in Uniform .

Management of Mohsin Shah a Tableghi with Fraudulent twist:

The Nawaz Sharif Chosen Management had selected a Person Mr. Mohsin Shah as his Manager Peshawar Base just because he is a Deobandi Tableghi with connections with Raiwind and other wise he is an Incompetent person to run the Base as he is senior Pursor in Designation and not a Proper Manager.

Female Cabin Crew PIA and Nawaz Sharif 

Mr. Mohsin Shah is even with his foot long Beard and his Connection with Deobandi Raiwind connections , he is a dishonest man and he recently had done fraudulent signatures of Jump Seat of Captain Akbar Adil operating Airbus A320 , which when later confirmed with Captain Akbar Adil was found to be Fake.

Off course PIA did not take action Against Mr. Mohsin Shah, Base In charge or did an inquiry into it, although the Authority of Jump seat is only with Captain of the flight.  

This Guy is the one who is responsible for the Movement of Cabin Crew and he with his foot long Beard and Tableghi connection is a Stupid Man.

He is either Hand in Glove with Higher Management in this Insult of Ladies by Asking the Unformed Cabin crew to Travel by Public Transport or he is doing it himself because of his Stupidity.

Insulting the Female Employee of National Carrier shamefully:

This Travel by Road is Insulting and Dangerous and violation of IATA rules and Regulations and shocking when done with Lady cabin Crew of National Carrier that is Pride of Pakistan and is symbol of Pakistan ,

If Pakistani are Muslim or they have shame in themselves they should not do this to the cabin crew who serve the National Airline.

They are the female and they should be treated with respect and even women teacher in schools and other places are treated with respect and provided with Transport as in Pakistan the condition of Public Transport are in Shambles and forcing at Night time the cabin crew to travel with their Heavy Luggage is both Degrading and Insulting and it is very strange that the Higher Management of PIA think they can get away with it and we People of Pakistan not Noticing  it , that was same reason the one of Director food and Beverages , of PIA was insulted by the cabin crew of Peshawar and they took revenge from him.

how much they are expected from the Cabin Crew who are face of Airline , and while they are treated like Shit by the Management of This Man from India Amritsar and his hand Picked Pakistan Air force officer who is Turning out to be Disgrace and derogatory,

Treating the Culprits in same Coin:

Maybe next time the Cabin Crew should take revenge from Mr. Shujat Azeem family or the daughter of Mr. Nawaz Sharif by treating them with same coin and Insulting them in the same way as they are insulting the cabin Crew of PIA and our national Pride with Shit Policies that is Laughing stock of the world .

Recently when one Director of PIA, as they are more then 15, even there is even director of Toilets in PIA laughingly and they are the ones who takes such High Salary and their Management is worse then shit.

When this Director of PIA was traveling the PIA female cabin crew from Peshawar Insulted him and ask him to change his seat deliberatively in order to teach him a Lesson.

This is warning to Higher Management of PIA, and the Ruling Politicians More such is going to come and better watch out, it is High time our hands should be on their necks soon, as these People will never learn. 

Crazy Policies of PMLN Governement on Staff Tickets of PIA

Recently the PMLN Governemt led by Incompetant and Stupid Governmwnt of PMLN a Punjab Based Party run by Mafia of Sharif Family who also Happens to Own the Airblue Airlines by their Front Man the Minister Khaqan Abbasi, Implemented a Tax of 2500 Rupees on Air Travel .

I had personally Visited his house before he was in Minister of Aviation and PIA , all he had in Hazara in his house, was broken beds and old furniture and now he is considered as Tycon .

This has upset the employees of Airlines like PIA who are the lowest paid in industry , compare this with shaheen Air who pay , Rupees 130,000 to its cabin crew , PIA pays , 18,000 to its cabin crew . For the same  duty .

lower Staff of PIA gets Less then , 10,000 rupees as salary and daily wagers gets 6,000 Rupees at some Placea even lower then the Pakistan standard of Lowest wages .

These Low Wages , are the reason PIA is full of corruption and employees find it hard to run their  Kitchen .

On top of this , PIA us.being Run by Handpicked Directors who come and Go on whims and wishes of Politicians who win an election and are paid about , 5,000 Rupees salary each month and with Brand new car every 3 years .

All they do is miss mannage and make PIA Bankcrupt so the , same politicians who support them can buy they Airline .

Employees salary make up only 15% of Total Budget and expenditure of Airline even when they are only 15,000 in Number and are highly trained and Professional they are treated like Dirt in PIA .

Most of MD and Directors of PIA are nothing more then PUMPs and sexual Predators , who's only favorite Pass time is Harrasing Females and asking them to sleep with them .

PIA has 15 Directors and only 20 Airplanes , while Emirates has 300 Airplanes and only 3 Directors , it is about time , the numbers of Directors and GM should be reduced to cut down the expenditure of PIA to 10% of Employees .

Reaction to Rise in Air Travel Tax:

The Recent Rise of Tax by Government on Airtravel on employees has made PIA employees who,s average salary 20,000 very upset as 2,500 on each sector means that they will have gp pay say for 2 children and 2 parents a small family of average Pakistani , about 10,000 Rupess extra or about 20,000 in total for a travel which is either once or thrice a year . 

This is more then the salary of the individual and considering these Sublow Tickets are issued Boarding Pass when the , airplane has empty seats , it is Stupid and really Un- Thinkable that how they neglected employees of PIA , who are almost working for free for National airline as now even Police constables get 30,000 salary even when he is a Metriculate .

Aviation Employees are difficult to get as their skills are not available easily and since the Aviation industry is expanding in Asia in rapid Pace and thier demand is High.

Treating them like this is both Degrading and In Human .

Call for a Strike :

PIA has many Union apart from the one that is being Run by PMLN , Airleague  ,

The other unions  Airleague they are contempleting for a strike soon in Protest of this action of Tax that is beyond their means to pay by low salary Employees .

The power Grip on employees of PIA has faded already and this has been the Last Nail in the coffin .

Recently Airleague stoped , the Promotion of Cabin crew into Group 5 who were issued Promotion Letters .

Then elections were held so that , these Cabin crew could be counted as Labour class as upto Group 4 are Labour class mostly in politically dominated Airleague PMLN and Peoples Unity of PPP and Now MQM and PTI run Unions .

The Higher Mangment of PIA  met the , Union Leaders few days backs and they were informed of general Resentment of PIA employees.

However the AirLeague PMLN  run by Retired PIA employee , Mr Shamim , in violation.of Laws of PIA has taken a lot of Bribes according to sources insiders of unions and employees.

Loosening Grip of Airleague PMLN union :

The Airleague of Nawaz Sharif run Government has already Lost Grip over the employees and PIA enployees are Thinking of some form of Protest .

The Recent Wining of case in High court of previous union of PPP has demonstrated that , those cabin Crew who were promoted to Group 5 had voted for this union of Airleague , and they were stoped for Promotion just because Airleague did not have majority in PIA employees it banked upon the Cabin Crew who were aleady Promoted in Officer Grade voted for PMLN Airleague .

This makes the union Illegal and liable for Dismissal soon according to court order , even the subsequent action like this one will be liable against it soon as court orders are issued later .

In Pakistan people don't understand the law properly , and thinking a stay order is legal protection actually it is not .

This case is very interesting and will lead to drastic measures soon .

There is a chance that a VIP might get a Insult or stopage of his Flight and making of a scene soon on PIA flight and it can happen soon and can also lead to complete wheel jam strike of PIA .