Minister for Aviation Khawaja Saad Rafique on Wednesday mentioned Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) had not floated any tender for the acquisition of latest plane as its monetary place didn’t enable it for this transaction
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – tenth Aug, 2022 ) :Minister for Aviation Khawaja Saad Rafique on Wednesday mentioned Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) had not floated any tender for the acquisition of latest plane as its monetary place didn’t enable it for this transaction.
Speaking on the ground of the decrease home of the parliament, he proposed that the nationwide flag service ought to get plane on dry lease, including that it had organized 4 plane A320 wherein two plane had arrived in Pakistan whereas the remaining two would attain by the tip of this month.
The enterprise schedule of them had been designed and they’d be a part of flying schedule so long as they got here to Pakistan, he maintained.
The minister mentioned International Air Transport Association had devised a marketing strategy for the PIA which sadly couldn’t be carried out resulting from sure causes.
After assuming the cost as aviation minister, he mentioned he had began implementing the next technique and his subsequent goal could be to get three A330 plane on lease and procure them inside eight months following the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority’s legal guidelines.
Regarding pretend licenses of pilots, he mentioned with out indulging in blame recreation, he was sorry to say that the person who gave this assertion had broken the Pakistan’s picture internationally inflicting ban on PIA’s fights within the United Kingdom and the European Union international locations whereas the explanation of PIA’s ban in America was a special one.
He mentioned it was an enormous dilemma that there have been sure pals’ international locations of Pakistan which weren’t in favour of lifting ban on the PIA’s flights with a purpose to seize the utmost enterprise for his or her airways.
He mentioned we have been making all-out efforts for the restoration of PIA’s flights significantly within the UK whereas the EU was delaying it. The ministry had held ‘shut engagements’ with the UK and expressed the hope that the ban could be lifted this 12 months whereas they have been already working in Canada.
Regarding the Roosevelt Hotel, he mentioned he was personally in opposition to the sale of those property.
In his opinion, this property ought to be protected and if it was doable, it ought to be made operational after some renovation work.
He mentioned they have been making a remaining projection and taking it to the Economic Coordination Committee for the approval, including that the union of this resort was arm-twisting and making an attempt to take this property to the Landmarks Commission however his group managed that it shouldn’t go within the fee.
On the disruption of PIA’s flights from Lahore to Islamabad, he mentioned there ought to be inclusion of safeguards within the Aviation Policy 2019 and there ought to go small plane at such airports the place the flights have been operating in loss. They would take up this case within the Federal Cabinet very quickly, he added.
Regarding British Airways flights, he mentioned it was beginning its flight operation from this month and its frequency could be higher than earlier than.
Regarding handing over airports to personal sector, he mentioned the aviation couldn’t take any motion by itself as a lot of the airports being run with three way partnership of the Air Force.
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