PIA flight operations across country wind down as employees killed in Karachi clash

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Re: PIA flight operations across country wind down as employees killed in Karachi cla

@phoenixdesi

i think other airlines have outsourced many functions and that decrease their “direct-hired employees” per plane number low but 780/plane is still a high number.

on a separate topic…help me understand one thing. Lets talk about international routes. PIA earns its international revenue by selling tickets at a price which is totally comparable to all other international airlines. For example i will pay PIA $1200-$1400 from NYC to Lahore for a round-trip and i will pay the same amount if i take emirates, qatar or kuwait. if anything PIA can be expensive. So PIA sales/plane should be comparable to its competitors on a given route.

but PIA’s employee expenses (salary+benefits etc) must be 1/3 of what European or middle eastern airlines have to pay to their employees. Out pilots, technicians, flight engineers, air stewards, support staff, ground staff has to be much much cheaper than the staff of american/European/middle eastern airlines

So even if we have 780 employees per plane, we should not be doing that bad financially vs other international airlines. no?

what it tells me that we must have a lot of other recurring annual expenses which are grossly mismanaged i.e. hotels in many expensive places which are highly underutilized, maintenance expenses related to old planes, not-so-attractive leasing terms, using planes for private reasons by politicians etc

• First of all 780 ratio is too high
• second of all many (if not most) of them are either highly incompetent or just do not work to full potential
• and finally they drain the resources of PIA like anything. Trust me I have been to dinners at PIA employees houses where all the silverware they were using was from PIA’s first class service and these are mostly “officers” category employees who can easily afford silverware. I have seen people getting surgery done on PIA’s expenses for free because they were falsely claimed as “children” of employees. There is corruption all around.

PIA has not gone down the drain overnight. It was a slow process and everyone including employees, management and governments have a equal responsibility in bringing it down.