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 Pulls Out Of Afghanistan After Taliban Demand Fare Cuts
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...
Bloated Pakistan International Airlines To Cut Workforce By 50%
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...
United Nations Cautions Staff To Avoid Pakistani Airlines
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...
58 “Wrongly Suspended” Pilots Cleared In Pakistan
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...
Virgin Atlantic Swoops In As PIA Fights To Return To Europe
While Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) fights for the right to return to European skies, Virgin Atlantic is taking full advantage of the opportunity with three new routes to Pakistan. PIA Files Appeal To Resume European Flights Pakistan International Airlines...
Pakistan International Airlines Partners With Turkish Airlines To Create New European Gateway
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...
How Pakistan International Airlines Plans To Skirt Blacklist
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...
United States Bans Pakistan International Airlines
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...
Another Scandal Rocks Pakistan International Airlines
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,...
European Union Bans Pakistan International Airlines – Is Canada Next?
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)...
Exclusive: A “Fake” Pilot From Pakistan International Airlines Speaks Out
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...
It’s Time To Blacklist Pakistan International Airlines…
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...
Report: Careless Pilots Blamed For PIA A320 Crash
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Airbus A320 crash that killed 98 people has been blamed on pilot error, according to a preliminary report. Apparently, the pilots were chatting about COVID-19 instead of paying attention to their duties and many...
Another A320 Scare On Pakistan International Airlines
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...
Let The Conspiracy Theories Begin: Unexplained Heaps Of Cash Found In Downed PIA Airbus Jet
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...
Where The Two Survivors Were Sitting When PIA Airbus A320 Crashed
Two men miraculously survived the crash of Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 from Lahore to Karachi yesterday. Where were they seated onboard the Airbus A320? After the A320 crashed into a Karachi neighborhood yesterday afternoon, all passengers and crew...
Pakistan International Airlines A320 Crashes, Killing 97 Onboard
A Pakistan International Airlines A320 carrying a total of 99 passengers and crew members crashed into a congested neighborhood in Karachi this afternoon. At least two survivors have been pulled from the wreckage, but 97 are feared dead. What...
Live and Let’s Fly Weekend Digest: August 13, 2017
Hello from Tashkent, where I am spending several days checking out Uzbekistan. The country has defied expectations…in good way. I don’t recommend the national airline, though. On Monday I will finish my current trip report with a review of...
Review: Pakistan Airlines 777 Business Class Manchester To New York
Never has a business class flight been as simultaneously annoying and charming as this one. While there was undeniable appeal to the warm service and authentic food onboard, the Pakistan Airlines 777-200 is simply not a competitive business class...
