KARACHI: For the convenience of its Umrah passengers, the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has introduced Executive Economy Class for Jeddah and Medinah bound flights to and from Pakistan.
A spokesman of the national flag carrier said here on Monday that the PIA passengers traveling for Umrah can now avail the facility of Executive Economy Class where they will be served Business Class Cuisine and will have an added advantage of five Kgs excess allowable baggage free of cost.
Keeping in view the demand, PIA has placed Extra Umrah flights for the next two weeks; with four extra flights from Karachi, three from Islamabad, two from Lahore and one from Multan.
These extra flights are in addition to the airline’s existing scheduled flights for Jeddah and Madinah on which the airline is now operating bigger capacity aircraft to meet the demand, the spokesman added.