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| Pak in financial mess, 77 flights cancelled due to no fuel | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 24: Financial conditions of the neigbouring Pakistan are going from bad to worse as seventy-seven flights of Pakistan International Airlines due to non-availability of fuel.
Although some flights have been resorted, thousands of Pakistanis are stranded at various places across the world and inside Pakistan.
Since Sunday, the airline has cancelled around 77 international and domestic flights due to the non-availability of fuel to manage its flight schedule.
Presently operating with just 16 aircraft, the partially state-owned airline, which the caretaker government wants to privatize, has got into a muddle with the Pakistan State Oil (PSO) refinery which supplies fuel to the airlines over non-payment of dues and its credit line.
The airline, which was once considered the pride of Pakistan and was the first international airline to be given access to fly to Beijing, is said to be suffering millions in losses daily.
A PIA spokesperson confirmed that 77 flights had been cancelled since Sunday after the PSO cut the airline's fuel supply.
The flight cancellations caused problems for thousands of travellers on international and domestic routes with many of them telling television channels they had never seen the situation so bad in the airline.
Aviation experts believe the airline's poor state of affairs was mainly due to overstaffing and political appointments in PIA over the years and the decision of the government to have an open skies policy a decade back.
The airline has been so badly managed in the last few years that the PIA has even had its leased aircraft seized in foreign countries because of non-payment of dues.
In July, an aircraft was stopped in Kuala Lumpur by a leasing company as it wanted its dues cleared first. |
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