Showing posts with label Pakistan International Airline Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pakistan International Airline Management. Show all posts

Sunday, September 22, 2019

PIA OPERATES 46 ROUTINE AND 36 HAJ FLIGHTS WITHOUT A SINGLE PASSENGER ON BOARD

PHOTO BY IANS OF PIA PLANE 

IANS/Islamabad
Filed on September 21, 2019
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) operated as many as 46 flights from the Islamabad Airport in 2016-17 with no passengers onboard the planes, a media report said on Saturday.

An audit report, a copy of which is available with Geo News, revealed that the national flag carrier suffered loss of Rs180 million by operating without passengers.

It said 36 additional flights on the Haj and Umrah routes were also operated without passengers and no inquiry was initiated despite the administration being informed about the matter.

The audit report said the issue has been declared a negligent act in the official documents.

In order to reduce operational costs, PIA last month laid off nearly 1,000 surplus employees. No enquiry was launched against the PIA Managers for this Lapse of Duties for the Record 





Friday, February 27, 2015

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. 

Friday, December 26, 2014

PIA HIGHER MANAGMENT INVOLVED IN PROSTITUION

                  
GM Flight Services PIA Mr Rashid H Khan 
 A Aircrew Mrs Shahzia Syed belonging to Karachi base , went to Police , complaining that the General Manager Flight crew Mr. Rashid H Khan  belonging to Lahore and Living in Malir cant Karachi , was Sending him Obscene SMS /Text Messages to her and asking her to go to bedroom of Higher officers of PIA and His friends , in Other words General Manager Flight services of PIA  was Acting as a PIMP.

As the Said lady was Honest and Lady with Character , so she went to Police and Federal Ombudsman and Shariate court of Pakistan , and also used her Rights via , the recently Promulgated women Protection Law Passed by the Pakistan Parliament under the PPP Government.

Mrs Shazia Syed was Joined accompanied by Half a Dozen other Air Line cabin crew Ladies who also claimed they had received the Obscene Text Messages and they showed it as a Proof to MD PIA coming from the phone of their Appointed GM Flight Mr.  Rashid H Khan as well.

Proof was shown to the Police and Higher Authorities of PIA who had come to point of begging a Pardon from the Cabin Crew for fear of Reprisal and bad name of PIA .

Most of GM PIA are Retired but on Extensions Violating PIA Policies 


This made a big problem for PIA management and they had to Bribe the Media to stay Silent and not Say Anything and Miss Shazia Syed and all the Ladies.

All this were tried to be settled by Pressuring the Girls with consequences to Appear before MD PIA and All the Directors along with GM Mr. Rashid H Khan .

His Service was cut Short by this Incident . 


Mr. Rashid H Khan Bended on his Knees and Begged for Forgiveness from the Ladies that he is Sorry and Admitted his fault in sending the Obscene Text Messages and PIMP activities to Pious and Ladies with Character who were being forced with threats of Being Kicked out the Job if they had not done what the PIA GM and Directors wanted.

This cause the Kind ladies to Pardon him although the matter was in front of MD PIA and he did not act Violating the Laws of PIA and Pakistan laws as Complaint had already been Filed.

Mr. Rashid H Khan was Already Retired 1 Years ago , and was on Extension and he was recently Promoted as GM without any Merit , and his PIMP like Activities to Directors of PIA although , he had retired already and he got his extension after Retirement !!!!.

Mr. Rashid H Khan got all his dues and facilities without any Inquiry being done into this Matter giving a Proof that PIA Directors and Higher Authorities and Management are acting a PIMPS and not Managers of PIA and were Involved in this Scam.

They explanation that such GM and Directors are on Extension and Getting Promotion even after they should be retired is because of such obscene and PIMP like activities .

While the sell the shifts of Flights to Traffic Staff for 4 Lakhs so that they can take Bribes from Passengers to get Personal baggage over the due limit allowed .

Most of Directors sell the flights of PIA on Lucrative sectors to Private Airlines like Shaheen Airline , Air Blue and Air Indus , while Operating Flights on Loss Making sectors they Operate PIA Flights so that Airline is Bankrupted and its share is dropped and it can be sold to Current Political leaders for low price.

These Same Directors and GM have cut down Connecting flights to Peshawar from where PIA used to Get all the International Passengers to Gulf States who were mostly from FATA and Pakhtunkhwa , and they are making them come to Islamabad to take flight of PIA , while to same Passenger the private Airlines and International Airlines offers Direct Flights from Peshawar ????? And on, Low Price.

Mr. Rashid who was Previously a Flight Steward and in PIA and was now Promoted to GM Flight Service and was on Extension , remarkably when PIA is in Loss the Directors who are 15 in  number although PIA only has less then 30 Aircraft . While in Emirates Airline there are only 3 Directors, for more 500 Aircraft !!!!!.

Apart from Directors there are twice the amount of GM more then 30  or more the exact count is not known and GM,s who are mostly on Extension violating the Policies of PIA which is Making Losses.

The Salaries of Most of Directors are more then 30- 50 Lakh while the GM take Salaries in Lakhs . if the Car and its Petrol are added to it salary Packages , every Director and GM is allowed a car and it is Gifted after every 3 Years to the Director and a New one is Purchased for them .

All this Luxury and Mind Boggling High Salaries,  while the Airline is in Loss and their Mismanagement and corruption as in News all the time.

The Number of 15 + Directors which is so much that there is a saying that, there is a “GM and Director of Toilets as well in PIA”.

According to PIA Balance sheet the Salaries of Employees is , 15% of PIA total Running Cost , and the Salaries of Directors and GM is about 7% of total cost  running cost of PIA , if PIA wants to Save some money it should seriously consider cutting down the directors to about 3 to 5 . this way it can save half the cost of employees without firing any Employees at all !!!!.

15+ Directors and 30 GM of PIA are half as expensive as current  15,000 Employees if the Perks and facilities are added and cost of their Offices and cost of Papers and Staff hired to work under them .

  While the Poor Cabin Salaries of Air crew are not Paid sometime for 6 Months in a Row, the Directors and GM,s are enjoying the Loot Sale . If PIA is in Loss why these Directors get so high Pay and none of there Salaries and Perks are ever cut off . 

This Cruelty of PIA is done so that they can make the Poor Girls of cabin crew Harassed and make them do their bidding like PIMP duties as requested by their own GM Flight Services and this is crime that is Punishable with lashes In Islam,  but in PIA it is Nature of Duties .  
For Last 6 month PIA is not Paying , any Food Money that is in US dollars for Cabin Crew who have to Eat food as Rooms are Provided In Hotels, from outside in foreign countries , because of PIMP Like Directors who are More Interested in Running  Brothels they Running PIA as Managers , they have not been Paid this Money.

Cabin crew is forced to Borrow money from Near and Dear ones to Eat food in Foreign countries or they take food from Homes already cooked for which they have to take heavy bags filled with cooked food which is banned as Per law but PIA PIMPs are forcing them to do this as they are not Paying them US dollars and Salaries for Last 6 months .

It may be noted, there are still Directors in PIA who are on Extension even after being retired and this High Number of 15 should be immediately reduced to 3 which is enough.

The Number of GM,s should also be reduced and those who have reached the retirement age should be sent home as well as the Daily wagers should be reduced.

The PIA is spending Billions on Papers while there is email system and most of employee don’t know the email system operation and are not computer literate one can save money by reducing need of Forms and other rubbish items like Vouchers paper based to claim salaries etc .

If there is a Pay role why not include All the Allowances in PAY role made on computer , and do away with useless Paper based Work that has been Abandoned 30 Year ago by the Airlines.



Sunday, June 22, 2014

General Musharaf , Tariq Aziz , Chairman PIA , AVM Niaz Hussein Who Bankrupted PIA




Chairman Ahmed Saeed after buying Boeing 777 aircraft: Now in trouble Neaver as he Paid the Generals . 

By M A Siddiqui




KARACHI, November 10: The unraveling of the highly controversial four-year tenure of Pakistan’s International Airline’s Chairman, Choudhry Ahmed Saeed, began on Friday (Nov 5) when the center-piece of his management, retired Air Vice Marshal Niaz Hussain, a Deputy Managing Director, was forced to resign and quit unceremoniously.

“AVM Niaz’s sudden departure means Chairman Saeed has realized that he could no longer continue with the façade of projecting the PIA as a super airline, reaping billions in profits, when the reality was that the organization was sinking and was in deep trouble,” a former Managing Director of PIA said.
The removal of AVM Niaz went almost unnoticed in Pakistan as a two paragraph story in leading newspaper “Dawn”, buried somewhere inside, revealed Niaz was “asked to submit his resignation following reports of alleged financial irregularities during his tenure.”

The Dawn story could easily be described as the biggest under-statement of the year as with AVM Niaz busted, how anyone, in his right mind, could defend the PIA Chairman and his entire team of hand picked men for the billions they over-spent in four years and the millions they made for themselves, flying PIA into a bottomless financial pit.

The list of the “irregularities” committed in PIA under AVM Niaz, which means with direct approval and collusion with Chairman Ahmed Saeed, is endless and the entire Aviation Industry is wondering how AVM Niaz could be made the scapegoat by a Chairman who brought and used him all through their joint tenure.

Saeed and Niaz have brought the PIA to a point where they have made it a legal obligation for the Government to pay billions every year to not just keep the airline afloat but to keep the aircraft and assets from being taken over by creditors and foreign banks.
A former MD of PIA says in their tenure PIA has made so many expensive and unnecessary purchases, especially of aircraft bought with sovereign guarantees provided by the Government of Pakistan, that just paying the installments would be impossible unless Islamabad coughed out the hard cash.

The list is long. Saeed-Niaz got the Boeing 777s from US, all under the fake impression that PIA was purchasing them while in reality a middle offshore company was the real owner while PIA and Pakistan were going to pay.

PIA got Airbus A-310 on long 10-year lease with no purchase options when it could have easily opted for the 2-3 year lease options and if the financial health had improved the lease could have been extended.

PIA is now ready to buy replacements of Fokkers from Bombardier as the final deal which Chairman Saeed-Niaz wanted to make before they could ease themselves out, leaving PIA as the precious orphan in the lap of a helpless Government in Islamabad.

Besides the aircraft purchases, so many deals were done for all kinds of purchases the world aviation experts were wondering where the money was going to come from. PIA bought equipment, cabin seats each worth $50,000, new audio and video systems, engines, parts and whatever, in such a rush the internal Auditors of the airline have filled hundreds of pages with objections of all kinds.

“In our previous year’s management letter we mentioned that as a result of the reorganization, management of stores and spares, including their custody, procurement and physical inspection have been given to Director Engineering,” the Audit Report stated. “We consider that procurement and custody of stores and spares should not be under the executive who is responsible for consumption…We consider it as a serious weakness in the system…”

While Saeed and Niaz were busy in the orgy of purchasing, they were all the time bluffing General Musharraf and his junta with fantasy figures of billions of rupees of profits PIA was making, or going to make. Musharraf’s friend Brig (Retd) Niaz and Tariq Aziz were always there to support Chairman Ahmed Saeed. No one ever gave a serious look or thought to the great web of deception Saeed-Niaz had created, until the chicken started to come home to roost.

In the 3rd quarter of 2004, when PIA was supposed to have made a profit of over a billion, the company posted losses. That was just a symptom of the cancer which had been hidden under the “creative accounting” done under orders of Saeed.

“The 3rd quarter, between July and September is always the peak season for PIA as during the school and college holidays in US and Europe, Pakistanis travel home in droves. But if PIA is showing losses in such a busy period, how can it ever make money in slower periods,” a former PIA executive said.

The story of the imaginary profits of billions is also one which will keep aviation industry mystified for years. Just last year Saeed and Niaz convinced General Musharraf to pump in almost Rs 25 billion into PIA. That was on top of the guarantees the government had provided for purchases. The projections were that PIA would make profits of Rs 3-4 billion a year. Just in 2003 the projected profit was over Rs 4 billion.

According to an official announcement by PIA on October 26, 2004, “the January-September accounts of PIAC were also presented to the Board. These state an after tax profit of Rs1,013 million. The Board was informed that this profit is after absorbing an additional fuel bill of Rs3,657 million and the impact of rupee devaluation to the extent of Rs 705 million over the corresponding period last year.”

This was a typical example of the “creative accounting” which a former MD said was the current practice. “Chairman Saeed gives a profit figure to the Finance Department and they have to create all the numbers, working backwards, to reach that figure. The real story will emerge when Saeed quits.”
The other major scandal in which Saeed and Niaz used their connections with General Musharraf was to sell PIA shares in the Stock Market in April-July this year at Rs 20.05 a share.

Government investors were pressurized to buy these shares at that rate while the actual price would have been much less. To give a false boost to the share value, some of the institutional buyers were made to buy a lot. The result was that PIA off loaded bulk of its shares at Rs 20.05 in June-July, 2004. Within weeks the price has come down by 50 per cent and on November 8, 2004, the PIA stock was trading at the KSE at Rs 10.35 a share.

Millions have been lost in the bargain by individual investors and institutions which were forced by the Saeed-Niaz duo. Public protests have been going on against this scandal but to no result. On August 7, 2004 Daily Dawn published a letter from an Abu Dhabi investor who said: “Deceptive propaganda by some home-based organizations has time and again duped the common Pakistani of his hard earned money and this sorrowful phenomenon prevails unchecked despite various measures taken by the present government. One such example concerns none other than the national carrier, PIA, whose shares were open to the public last month at a base value of pak rupee 20.05 per share.”

The letter went on: “However, there is a continuous down trend in the value of these shares at the Karachi Stock Exchange and now it stands at Rs. 14.25, a slump of 30 per cent and that too even before the allocation of the shares to buyers. This is despite an interesting fact that KSE index has climbed to 6% during the same period. The Privatization Commission of Pakistan is headed by a thorough professional, Dr, Hafeez A. Shaikh, and it is time that he looked into the reasons for the continuous fall in PIA share value.” No one heard the woes of Iqbal Mahdi from Abu Dhabi. Click to Read Dawn letter

A highly placed source in PIA said the Chairman wasted almost $10 million in first setting up a Revenue Accounting System which would have given on-the-spot revenue updates on a daily basis and then discarding the system because it would have made it impossible to fudge the figures and resort to creative accounting.

“A new IT Director was appointed and a Johnny was picked up from a car show room to run the IT Directorate by paying him 10 times the salary he was getting. The 3rd Floor of the Cafeteria Building in Karachi was acquired months ago, over 200 computer terminals were set up and programs were purchased. A number of relatives and nephews of the Chairman benefited from the program but when it was supposed to deliver results, it was discarded and declared a non-starter as it would expose the real situation,” the source said.


To hide the facts and cover up their corruption and losses, the readily available excuse for Saeed and Niaz has been the increase in international oil prices. These fuel costs have hit every airline in the world and it was not unexpected. Every Board Room has been struggling to meet the challenge of these rising fuel costs and many have overcome it.

One comparable example is of Singapore Airlines which on October 28, 2004 reported a first half net profit of US$411 million despite adding US$122 million to its expenditures because of rising jet fuel prices. Click to see SIA announcement


Saeed and Niaz have been using the fuel price increase to befool the Generals in Rawalpindi while the fact is that PIA has been charging its passengers a special Fuel Surcharge to offset the increases. “They would never disclose how much impact was absorbed by the surcharge and they would never say why they failed to meet the challenge like other airlines by cutting costs, raising passenger revenues, buying less and better management,” says the former MD.


The ultimate result is that PIA is now making losses instead of the billions it was supposed to earn to pay for the purchase of the B-777 and other aircraft, the Government is bound to make these payments from its foreign exchange reserves as it has provided sovereign guarantees and in case of a default the entire PIA fleet would be taken over by banks and off shore companies.

Seeing this end coming, Chairman Saeed has now moved to make AVM Niaz a scapegoat. PIA sources say this has been done just in time to ease him out in preparation for an end December move by Saeed himself to quit the job and move out.

But Saeed cannot get away with putting the blame on AVM Niaz alone. Niaz has been Saeed’s own front man and creation. This DMD, one of the many now crawling all over the airline, was recruited by Saeed as Director Engineering in 2001, not because he fit the job description, but because he was recommended by one Brigadier Niaz, the buddy and Bridge partner of the country’s president, General Musharraf.

Yet when AVM Niaz Hussain was appointed Director Engineering on July 9, 2001, on a four-year contract in violation of Government rules, no approval had been sought about his professional and technical expertise from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Pakistan. But as the formality had to be completed, Saeed sent a brief letter almost 3 weeks later to the CAA Director General, stating that: “He possesses vast experience in Aviation field and has been judged to be the most suitable for this position.” Click to see MD’s Letter to CAA

The CAA was not amused. Within two weeks, precisely on August 15, 2001, the CAA hit back with a terse response which left no doubt that AVM Niaz Hussain did not possess the required qualifications and experience.

“The appointment of AVM (R) Niaz Hussain, as Director Engineering, has already been made with effect from 9th July, 2001, without obtaining prior “Approval” as per prescribed requirements,” the Director Airworthiness of CAA, Engineer Zafarullah Khan, said in his letter to the PIA MD.Click to See CAA Letter

But since AVM Niaz was the chosen one, and obviously CAA had been pressurized by General Musharraf and his men, it could not withhold the approval. So Engineer Zafarullah went on in his letter, clearly indicating that the decision was being taken under obvious duress: “The competent authority has ‘Approved’ his appointment as a ‘special case’, although the incumbent does not meet the specified qualifications/experience requirements for the assigned position.”Click to see document showing needed qualifications | Click to see record/qualifications of AVM Niaz

As another sign of annoyance, the CAA sent the ‘approval’ for only six months, saying after that period his performance should be assessed. It was never done as neither the PIA Chairman, nor the CAA bothered to reopen the case.


The PIA Chairman, who has now swiftly accepted the “forced” resignation of AVM Niaz, could care less at that time, as he had his man in the job and was soon to give him vast financial and administrative powers. AVM Niaz had been inducted as Director Engineering though he did not possess the required qualifications. Soon he was handed over the real task for which he was the chosen one --- purchases of PIA, running into hundreds of millions of dollars of borrowed money, consuming over 60 per cent of the PIA budget.

He was also soon to be promoted as Deputy Managing Director in charge of all PIA Operations, a huge job when combined with all the purchases.

No wonder, records obtained by the SA Tribune revealed, AVM Niaz was soon globe trotting and out of 365 days in a year he was on official purchasing tours abroad for 200 days. Keep counting the expenses and the allowances in high cost foreign capitals. Multi billion dollar deals were being made despite repeated objections by the 12-member Board of Directors of PIA which has some private sector members as well. But no one would bother as long they had powerful uniformed friends in the GHQ and Islamabad.

AVM Niaz had come to PIA from the Pakistan Air Force and he had built up his reputation as a very corrupt man in his latest posting at the PAF Kamra Complex, located between Peshawar and Islamabad. He had acquired the nick name of “The Wizard of Kamra” because of his worldly wining, dining and womanizing ways.

In a remarkable discussion in the SA Tribune Forum on a story on kickbacks in PAF, several Kamra insiders posted messages revealing what AVM Niaz had been doing there. “AVM is the most corrupt engineer PAF has ever produced .The monthly bill of his wine drinking is more than Rs. 50,000,” wrote one PAF officer.

Added another: “The harm AVM has done to PAF is not only financial but of security too. He got all the business of PAF (transferred) to Transsworld and got his son employed there. Transsworld have all Indian employees in Dubai and who knows what they are up to. Some ex-PAF officers are also working hands in hands with them.”

His resignation last Friday for financial irregularities proved all this may be right. But will he be allowed to get away with the crime and the booty?

Source: http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/nov04/P1_mas.htm