State-owned airline has admitted that it has no idea how many of its passengers are stranded – or where – amid an ongoing strike by its staff.
With no end in sight, the industrial action forced Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to suspend all of its flights to domestic and foreign destinations, including London and New York – grounding thousands of travellers and crippling the country’s major airports.
The strike is in its fourth day as employees protest plans to privatise Pakistan’s flag carrier, which was previously dubbed the world’s least productive airline.
Airline spokesman Danial Hassan Gillani said: ‘We have no data available on how many and where passengers with confirmed PIA tickets are waiting, because the entire system is shut, servers are down and no booking is being done.’
Bloomberg called PIA the world’s least productive and most overstaffed airline, saying each of its 15,000 full-time workers earns the airline 61,000 rupees (£400, $585) a year, the lowest among 72 carriers tracked by the news agency.
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