Is a Pakistani-International Airline and the national flag carrier of Pakistan beneath neath the executive management of the Secretary to the Government of Pakistan for Aviation.
PIA changed into based on 29 October 1946 as Orient Airways, and became to start with primarily based totally in Calcutta, British India, earlier than moving operations to the newly impartial country of Pakistan in 1947.
Orient Airways changed into nationalized to shape the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIAC). The new airline started out worldwide offerings in 1955 to London, thru Cairo and Rome.
PIA has become the primary Asian airline to function jet plane with the induction of the Boeing 707 into the business carrier on 7 March 1960, and later in 1964 have become the primary non-Communist airline to fly to China.
The airline performed a crucial position withinside the status quo of Emirates Airline in 1985. In 2004, PIA come to be the release consumer of the Boeing 777-200LR. On 10 November 2005 used the Boeing 777-200LR to finish the world's longest nonstop flight through a business airliner. This flight lasted 22 hours and 22 mins in the eastbound direction between Hong Kong and London.
PIA is Pakistan's biggest airline and operates a fleet of greater than 30 planes. The airline operates almost a hundred flights daily, servicing 18 home locations and 25 worldwide locations throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.
In addition to business flight operations, PIA additionally owns The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City and the Sofitel Paris Scribe Hotel in Paris. The airline operates a common flier program, PIA Awards +, and has numerous codeshare and interline agreements. However, it isn't a part of any airline alliance.
On 30 June 2020, PIA changed into banned from flying in European airspace for 6 months, beginning on 1 July 2020, after EASA decided that the airline turned into now no longer able to certifying and overseeing its operators and plane according to relevant worldwide standards.
This selection becomes made quickly after it turned into found out that at the least a 3rd of all pilot's licenses issued in Pakistan had been fraudulent.[18] By nine July 2020, the airline turned into additionally banned through the UK and the United States.[19
Cabin
PIA operates a 3-magnificence configuration on its home routes: Business Class, Executive Economy, and Economy. On global flights, a two-elegance configuration (Executive Economy and Economy elegance) has been added on the grounds that January 2019.
PIA has retained Business elegance-best on home flights operated through Boeing 777s. PIA Business and Executive Economy passengers have presented recliner seats on all Boeing 777 planes.
Seats with extra legroom and vacant center seats are presented in Executive Economy onboard the Airbus A320 plane.
In Economy elegance, all passengers at the Boeing 777 are supplied seats with 30-inch legroom and private amusement monitors in a three-three-three configuration. On the Airbus A320, fabric-included seats in three configurations are supplied.
PIA Catering is the principal dealer of food for the airline in Islamabad and Karachi. It can produce 15,000 passengers of food every day.
In 2006, the control of the flight kitchens become given to Singapore Air Terminal Services (SATS). This settlement led to 2011 and PIA is dealing with the Flight Kitchens in Karachi and Islamabad itself.
As of April 2019, an MOU becomes signed among PIA and McDonald's for the airways catering. PIA Catering offers unique food to permit passengers' nutritional and non-secular needs. No alcoholic beverages and red meat are served on board because of Islamic nutritional laws.
PIA Premier provider
PIA Premier turned released as a luxurious air provider on 14 August 2016. An Airbus A330 plane turned into first of all wet-leased from Sri Lankan Airlines to function the carrier. There have been six weekly flights to London, 3 every from Islamabad and Lahore. PIA ended the carrier because of losses and the A330 turned back to SriLankan.
In-flight Magazine
The PIA in-flight magazine, Humsafar (Urdu for “tour companion”), is supplied to all passengers on all global flights. Humsafar become brought in 1980 and is outlined and posted bi-monthly.
In-flight Entertainment
Pakistan International Airlines changed into the primary global airline to introduce leisure gadgets displaying a frequently scheduled movie onboard withinside the yr 1962. Up to date, the maximum of PIA's lengthy haul fleet in-flight leisure is presently unusable and the gadget went haywire.
In-flight Internet
In January 2017, the airline started trials on an onboard net device to supply in-flight enjoyment on a few home flights. The device lets passengers get entry to a choice of in-flight amusement content material the usage of their personal cellular devices.
PIA gives private displays on Boeing 777 flights with in-flight movies, songs,s, and TV shows. The Boeing 777 IFE additionally functions as an inflight map and air show. Selected A320s function drop-down monitors with in-flight map and air-show.
Frequent Flyer Program
PIA Awards Plus+ is the common flyer software. The software lets passengers get unfastened tickets, extra luggage vouchers, cabin upgrades, and quite a few rewards, unique deals, and discounts.
Awards Plus+ has 3 stages of membership Emerald, Sapphire, and Diamond. Awards Plus+ miles may be earned via way of means of flying PIA and via way of means of the usage of the goods and offerings of PIA's partners.
