PIA Employees Receive Huge Salary Increase
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced a 25% salary increase for its officers and employees, as approved by the federal government.
The Privatisation Commission issued an official notification confirming the raise, according to a report from 24NewsHD TV on Thursday.
In other developments, PIA plans to expand its fleet by adding eight aircraft next year. This update was shared by PIA CEO Khurram Mushtaq during a briefing to the National Assembly Standing Committee on Aviation.
The committee, chaired by MNA Nawabzada Iftikhar Ahmed Khan Babar, convened at Islamabad International Airport on Monday, as per an official press release.
The CEO stated that the new additions would include wide-body Boeing 777 planes, which are intended for long-haul routes. He also announced that after a four-year hiatus, PIA flights to Europe would resume.
The airline is set to restart its operations to the continent with a flight to Paris on January 10, offering two weekly flights on this route.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
