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PIA to discontinue flights to US from Oct 31
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IANS | 07 Oct, 2017
Citing huge losses, flagship carrier Pakistan International Airlines
will be discontinuing flights to the US from October 31, airline
officials said on Friday.
According to the officials, PIA had
been incurring losses of up to Rs 1.25 billion annually due to its US
operations -- a concern which prompted the management to discontinue the
flights, Geo News reported.
The airline is no longer booking US
flights through its reservation system after October 31. PIA had been
operating flights to the US since 1961 without any disruption. A total
of five weekly flights to New York and three other US cities were being
operated.
The airline had decided several times in the past to
discontinue US flights due to the financial losses. However, it faced
"political pressure" each time, which hindered its plans, sources privy
to the matter told Geo News.
Some politicians holding dual
citizenship, top government officials and pilots exerted "pressure" on
the airline not to stop its US flight operations. These flights were
"beneficial" to the politicians and officials, the sources said.
PIA,
after stopping direct flights to the US, will enter into a code-sharing
agreement with an American airline. US-bound passengers will be flown
to London, where they will then be transferred to the American airline
which will take them to the US.
Such a code-sharing agreement will help PIA to avoid financial losses, the report said.
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