Category Archives: Pakistan Airlines

With the European Union flight ban lifted, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) returned to Paris on Friday…with an ad that shows the airline has learned nothing (or perhaps quite a bit) from its infamous World Trade Center. PIA Returns To...

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has moved one step closer to privatization, with the assistance of accounting firm Ernst & Young, ahead of elections next week. PIA Will Be Sold Under The Direction Of Ernst & Young In November 2023,...

Pakistan International Airlines profits off New York City taxpayers and refugees via a curious deal with city officials involving housing in a dilapidated hotel. Pakistan International Airlines Sells Shelter To Refugees In New York City…At A Cost of $220...

As street protests erupt in Iran over the Islamic Republic’s treatment of a woman who was accused of wearing a head covering inappropriately and then died in police custody, in neighboring Pakistan the flag carrier PIA is warning flight...

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has suspended service to Kabul, Afghanistan after the Taliban demanded it cut ticket prices. Taliban Demand PIA Cut Ticket Prices, Prompting Service Suspension PIA is the only International carrier operating regularly scheduled service to Afghanistan…well...

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plans to cut unprofitable routes, retire part of its fleet, and trim its inefficient workforce by 50%. All of this in a bid to return to profitability by 2023. PIA Plans To Trim Workforce By...

Months after a deadly crash followed by a pilot scandal rocked Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the United Nations is telling its workers to avoid Pakistani airlines, even within Pakistan. United Nations Tells Staff To Avoid Pakistani Airlines The problem...

A short but important update on Live and Let’s Fly concerning our continuing coverage of the pilot scandal that has adversely impacted Pakistan International Airlines. 58 pilots have now been cleared. 58 “Fake” Pilots Cleared At PIA In June, Pakistan’s Minister for...

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) remains barred from operating service to the European Union and the United Kingdom through at least the end of August. To compensate, PIA is working with Turkish Airlines to create a new European gateway in...

You may soon see Pakistan International Airlines planes again in Europe and the United States even as the airline remains banned. How? PIA has a plan to carefully avoid the current blacklist that prohibits it from flying to the...

In another blow to Pakistan International Airlines, the United States has banned the beleaguered carrier from its airspace. Will the USA ban hasten lasting change at PIA? PIA Banned From USA PIA announced in 2019 that it would resume...

As if the pilot scandal was not enough, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) finds itself embroiled in a new ticketing scandal. PIA Ticketing Scandal: How PIA Ticket Agents Scammed Their Own Airline As reported by Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English newspaper,...

The European Union has banned Pakistan International Airlines from its airspace for six months, citing safety concerns. Will Canada also ban troubled PIA? European Union Bans PIA Effective now, July 1, 2020, the European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA)...

After revelations surfaced that as many as 262 of the 860 commercial pilots in Pakistan are not really certified to fly, I wrote an op-ed calling for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to be blacklisted until a full investigation was completed. A...

There is only one major airline in the world I would not fly right now and that is Pakistan International Airlines. Harrowing revelations about forged pilot licenses should be a wake-up call for world governments to blacklist PIA until...

The flight landed safely, but not before sending passengers into a panic and prompting many to make final intercessory prayers. But Pakistan Airlines contends there was no A320 emergency landing. Pakistan International Airlines A320 Makes Emergency Landing PK8726, operated...

Investigators have found an unusually large amount of cash onboard the downed Airbus jetliner that crashed into a Karachi suburb last week. Let the conspiracy theories begin? The crash of an Airbus A320 jetliner killed 97 of 99 passengers...