ISLAMABAD – Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the nationalflag-carrier, has launched an application to facilitate passengers inonline reservation and confirmation of seats through mobile phones.
“The application has recently been launched and now the air passengers willenjoy better services,” a PIA spokesman told APP on Tuesday.
He said a number of initiatives had been taken to improve efficiency of thePIA, which has started yielding required results, especially aftereffective tackling of the seat-factor. “The airliner’s overall seat factorhas improved and reached nearly 84 percent whereas on some sectors, theseat factor is at 90 percent,” he said.The PIA aircraft have been made operational and now all Boeing 777s andA320s were operational.
He said the airlines was now moving on the right track without any outerinfluence and pressure; adding the PIA had tremendous potential to rise forwhich concerted efforts were underway to transform the nationalflag-carrier into a more viable and profit-earning entity.
He said significant improvement was evident in different indicators likeseat occupancy ratio, aircraft utilization, cargo load factor and customerservice.
He said in the recent days, the PIA had also signed an agreement with aprivate online taxi service to facilitate passengers. As per the agreement,the passengers receive the promo code with their in-flight conformation SMSand get discount on rides.To a question, he said PIA had earned Rs17 million in over less than twoweeks with a paint job for a foreign customer. The experienced PIA teamtook only ten days to complete the intricate paint job for the foreignairline.
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“We completed a paint job in just ten days for a foreign customer andearned Rs17 million from it. We executed the intricate paint job withcustom made stencils” he added. The airlines did the job for ATR 72aircraft 9S-AAD of Fly CAA Company from Congo.
The department had recently developed an in-house facility to repairCessna, small aircraft, primarily used for flight training and personal use.
He said : “PIA Engineering and Maintenance has achieved a milestone inmaintenance of Cessna. They’ve developed an in-house facility to repair thepropeller which will be utilized by flying training academies.”
