Tallest Building: pakistan airlines

Thursday, March 24, 2011

pakistan airlines

commonly known as PIA, is the flag carrier airline of Pakistan.[2] The airline, with its head office on the grounds of Jinnah International Airport in Karachi,[3] operates scheduled services to 24 domestic destinations and 39 international destinations in 25 countries across Asia, Europe and North America.[4] Its main bases are at Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad/Rawalpindi. PIA has been ranked as a 3-star airline by Skytrax, the world's official airline and airport reviewer.[5]

The airline's secondary bases include Peshawar, Faisalabad, Quetta, Sialkot and Multan, from which it connects the metropolitan cities with the main bases, the Middle East and the Far East. The airline is owned by the Government of Pakistan (87%) and other shareholders (13%). It employed 18,043 people as of May 2008.[citation needed]