The CEO of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Air Marshal (retd.)Arshad Malik, inaugurated its first engineering hangar at the New IslamabadInternational Airport yesterday.
The hangar has been named ‘Nur Khan Engineering Complex’ after the head ofPIA’s golden era, the late Air Marshal Nur Khan, and will be used for theregular maintenance work and repairs of the PIA aircraft in Islamabad.
It will greatly lower the cost of sending PIA’s planes to Karachi formaintenance.
Malik said that PIA is expanding its presence at Islamabad airport to meetits future challenges and requirements.
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“Most of the PIA operations are being shifted to the north due topassengers’ demand,” he added.
Furthermore, the aircraft’s positioning expenses and flights pressures willbe greatly reduced by the establishment of the complex, the CEO said.
