ISLAMABAD – The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)-Pakistan has directed PIA to ensure feeding complete flights details in the Air Transport Flight Management System (ATFMS), it is learnt. As per a report submitted to the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) in its meeting on October 30, from 2011 to June 2014, the air carrier had suffered a loss of Rs207.69 billion. Before that, the figure stood at Rs74.89 billion.
A lack of co-ordination among PIA’s different departments had contributed to airline’s woes, sources said. They added that flight schedule and planning department, which was solely responsible to inform CAA-Pakistan about flight operations, did not do the same prior to PIA flights operated for local and international destinations, which was considered to be a serious security breach and shear violation by PIA.
They were of the view that if the issue remained extant, it would result in collapse of the airline. Therefore, CAA-Pakistan in order to address the issue gravely asked its Schedule & Network Planning Section (S&NPS) to identify the flights, which were marked as ‘Without Permission’, by the system.
