ISLAMABAD - Feeling the heat of seemingly controversial taxes imposition on the salaried class, the PIA pilots have officially approached the finance minister with the request to withdraw new taxes on the pilots’ flying allowance and free tickets.In this regard, a letter written by the ...

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NEW DELHI (AFP) - Asia’s largest budget carrier AirAsia announced it has begun recruiting pilots for the no-frills Indian airline joint venture it plans to launch later this year.AirAsia is searching for India-based captains and co-pilots, the carrier said on its website. Group chief ...

Six pilots of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) were sacked for holding fake degrees, while five hundreds others airline staffers were also found to have bogus credentials.Captain Fahim and Captain Arshad, who have flown the airplanes of various prime ministers and presidents, are also among ...

LAHORE – A list of more than 2,000 officials working on fake educational degrees and certificates has been prepared by the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) management with a view to removing them from service, well placed sources confided to The Nation on Saturday.The sources claimed ...

LAHORE - Pilots of Pakistan International Airline participated in the Annual International Federation of Airline Pilots Association (IFALPA) Conference on air safety, held on the International Airline Pilots Day in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Thursday. IFALPA held first-of-a-kind meeting in Thailand ...

LAHORE - Spokesman of Pakistan Airline Pilots Association (PALPA) has said that newly-formed Safety Action Group (SAG) was not representative body of pilots and termed it an eyewash for international organisations. He was of the view that body was actually representing pilots working in management ...

KARACHI - The Karachi Port Trust (KPT), which has 30 berths and day and night shipping activities is running with just 15 pilots. The marine experts suggest that KPT should at least hire 50 fresh pilots before going to Deep Water Container Terminal, besides providing them with Simulator training, ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Air India said on Sunday it was investigating allegations of a mid-air brawl in which pilots and cabin crew were reported to have exchanged blows in front of startled passengers. The Times of India reported that crew members threw punches and hurled abuse at each other on the ...

KARACHI - The PIA Management is determined for disciplinary and punitive action against such pilots who violated discipline and unauthorised absence from duty during the 'Go-Slow causing unnecessary inconvenience to the travelling passengers and considerable financial losses to the airline, PIA ...

KARACHI - A senior Pilot of Boeing 777 and his first officer are being penalised by PIA management for refusing to fly on short rest, the pilots have been given notice for doing so under the most controversial Removal from Service Ordinance 2000, The Nation learnt from sources. According to sources ...

LAHORE - Differences between PIA pilots and MD have widened further as PALPA has suspended the membership of PIA MD Capt Ijaz Haroon, who is B777 active captain. The differences emerged when PALPA demanded the regularisation of all contract pilots. Sources within PIA confided to The Nation that ...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Airlines Pilots Association (PALPA) on Monday categorically announced that it will not accept the recently announced pay raise by the PIA management if contract pilots are not regularised. On one hand, they bound us to distribute Rs226 million among the Palpa members only, ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Air Lines Pilots Association (PALPA) has strongly condemned the notion given in a report published in a section of local press which has portrayed the pilots of British Airways as patriots simply because they accepted a pay cut in hard times without analysing the entire agreement ...

KARACHI - Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilots go-slow strategy has caused a blow to the flights schedule that impelled the national flag career either to reschedule or cancel flights, it was learnt on Tuesday. From Saturday to Tuesday afternoon, the schedule of 25 flights was disturbed ...

LAHORE - The national flag carrier PIA, which is suffering huge losses of over Rs 74 billion, has made immediate raise in salaries for pilots on B777 of Rs70,000 per month with service duration condition. This translates into hike of 28 percent for junior pilots and almost 17.5 percent for senior ...

LAHORE - The Pakistan Airline Pilots Association (PALPA) has presented a charter of demands (CoD), consist of 20 demands to the PIA Director (Fight Operations), seeking immediate acceptance, no matter whether or not the national flag-carrier is able to accomplish such demands under the present ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Pakistan International Airlines PIA has endured around Rs 20 million losses in the last five days due to 'go slow call by Pakistan Airline Pilots Association (PALPA). Managing Director PIA Captain Ejaz Haroon Tuesday told PTV News that the national airline has suffered losses due ...

KARACHI - Pakistan International Airlines has appointed 19 fresh pilots to meet the shortage of pilots, The Nation learnt. Moreover, the appointment of new airhostesses was also in the process for the national flag-career. Sources in PIA said that the hiring of new pilots was the part of an ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) An Air India flight headed for Mumbai overshot its destination and was halfway to Goa before its dozing pilots were woken out of a deep slumber by air traffic control, a report said. The high altitude nap took place approximately two weeks ago, the Times of India reported Thursday. ...