By Abdul Qadir Qureshi ( Pakistan News & Features Servic es) National Carrier PIA achieved an operating profit of Rs.738 million in November 2012 after having suffered losses of Rs.1272 million in the corresponding period last year. The airline earned the profit despite difficult economic conditions, fierce competition, rising fuel prices, foreign exchange losses and law and order situation, PIA said. It was for the third month running that there was significant increase in the airline’s revenue income due to, what was described as,   dynamic policies of the present management which made the airline to achieve operating income since September this year. Although the airline faced a tough year yet successfully pushed its business forward in different areas with the credit attributed to the employees who made the airline to leap forward despite challenging times.  The Managing Director, Mohammad Junaid Yunus described it a tes...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi     (Pakistan News & Features Services) The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), King Abdul Aziz International Airport, Saudi Arabia, has declared the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) as the best airline operator amongst the 74 international Airlines operating from Hajj terminal, flying more than 1.7 million Hajjis in 2012.  The PIA spokesman, Syed Sultan Hasan presented the copies of the certification of 25 Zilhajj 1433H (November 10, 2012) mentioning PIA as the Best Hajj Airline Operator to a Pakistan media team visiting Saudi Arabia at Madinah.  The GACA, in the certificate issued to PIA, has noted that they closely monitored the activities of all the airlines’ operating from Hajj terminal Jeddah and considered that PIA again proved itself the best operator on the basis of regularity as well as services provided.  The GACA further said that PIA demonstrated exceptional value by overcoming the delay f...