Pakistan International Airlines Reviews & Complaints
By: Tariq Mannan Shaikh
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Pakistan International Airlines
I am a frequent flyer by PIA considering it as a national carrier I always prefer to travel through PIA and being a staunch Pakistani I always have pleasure in doing so.
But unfortunately, I have had some unexpected experience during my journey from Karachi to Dammam on 15th May, 2017. I was bound for Dammam through PK-242 scheduled to leave Karachi at 9:55 pm. At the outset we were informed that flight is delayed for one hour which is bearable however. We were asked to board the aircraft through stairs, bearable too. Surprisingly the plane was not of PIA but symbolled as PEGASUS with flag of Turkey at the tail end and PIA written in Urdu at the front end. Passengers boarded the plane however but there was another surprise for us. There were mixture of crew like PIA crew and Turkish crew. Captain however seems to be a Turkish fellow and may be the co-pilot too.
Travelling to your homeland once in a year certainly has a great feeling one can only imagine but this sort of happening make us sad as we are here in “Pardes” and contributing towards growth of economy of our country. We do not want to go into depth whatsoever, that what is the root cause of this scenario.
• Has PIA shortage of Aircrafts?
• Has PIA taken Aircraft on lease from Turkey?
• Doesn’t PIA think of the passengers while they were surprised and confused to see whether they were boarding the right plane?
I have seen someone whispering “Might be we are boarding a wrong Plane, Let us go back”. And off-course there were families and alone passengers who might have been surprised too by seeing “PEGASUS” written on the plane instead of “Pakistan International”.
Anyways, our obligation is to identify and pen down. Surely a day will come when we will regain our lost glory the world knows as “Great People to fly with”.