Pakistan News And Discussion-12

[Naresh]

<b>PIA’s Chicago flight to end in September</b> <!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ISLAMABAD, Aug 23 : <b>Mounting losses due to eroding customer base forced the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to stop flights to 11 foreign destinations over the past few months and it is going to discontinue its service to yet another destination, Chicago, next month.</b>

The airline with the fast shrinking international network has also decided to reduce frequencies on four destinations. The airline says it is suffering losses to the tune of Rs1 billion a month.

The destinations PIA discontinued its flights to in the past few months are Houston, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Rome, Athens, Moscow, London, Nairobi, Urumqi, Singapore and Colombo, while Chicago would be taken off the PIA operation charts from Sept 15.

The destinations that are being operated with reduced frequencies are Paris, Birmingham, New York and Dubai.

Aviation experts see PIA being reduced to a regional carrier.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

With this latest news in addition to the rising Pakistani External Debt to over USD 40 Billion as well as Pakistani Domestic Debt rising to over USD 42 Billion - a Total Increse of Over USD 7 Billion during the Financial Year 2006-2007 - India's Beloved Prime Minister The Right Honourable Dr. Man Mohan Singh Ji has started to lose his Beauty Sleep! <!--emo&:furious--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/furious.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='furious.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Cheers <!--emo&:beer--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' /><!--endemo-->