KARACHI
\nPakistan International Airlines (PIA) management officials gave a detailed briefing to Aviation Minister, Khawaja Saad Rafique on the airline\u2019s Operations.
\nThe briefing covered Hajj Operations, promotion of tourism in Pakistan, PIA\u2019s flights to new destinations and airline\u201ds fleet expansion plan among other operational matters. The Minister was apprised about the airline\u2019s Hajj operation commencing from 31 May.
\nPIA will operate Hajj flights from eight major cities of Pakistan that are karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Multan, Peshawar and Quetta to Jeddah and Madinah. PIA will operate 297 Hajj flights till 13 August .
\nThe Minister was informed about PIA\u2019s operational fleet and the fleet expansion plan, whereby the airline is in the process to induct four A320 aircraft. The Minister was apprised that one A320 has already joined PIA fleet and will be part of the flight operations after completion of necessary formalities while another aircraft will join PIA fleet by end of this month.
\nMinister for Aviation instructed PIA officials to make operational the grounded aircraft which along with the induction of aircraft will further help in improving the airline\u2019s flight operations. He also discussed the options of increasing flights to Nafaj and Damascus.
\nThe Minister was also informed about PIA sucessful flight operations to Baku and plans for increasing the flight frequencies to Baku and also on domestic destinations such as 18 weekly flights to Skardu, 24 flight per week for Gilgit and two flights per week to Chitral from Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore connecting other cities of Pakistan.
\nKhawaja Saad Rafique instructed PIA officials to further improve its cargo business and also to improve the business class facilities for passengers including upgradation of PIA Business Class lounges at airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KARACHI Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) management officials gave a detailed briefing to Aviation Minister, Khawaja Saad Rafique on the airline\u2019s Operations. The briefing covered Hajj Operations, promotion of tourism in Pakistan, PIA\u2019s flights to new destinations and airline\u201ds fleet expansion plan among other operational matters. The Minister was apprised about the airline\u2019s Hajj operation commencing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[7638,7640,7639],"class_list":{"0":"post-262298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-airline-operations","9":"tag-aviation-minister","10":"tag-pia-management"},"yoast_head":"\n