PIA Invites Bids to Wet Lease One Wide-body Aircraft

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Re: PIA Invites Bids to Wet Lease One Wide-body Aircraft

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"The PIA Board of Directors out rightly refused to move forward for any wet lease against the offer of a company at US $ 5,800 per hour on the grounds that the national airline would suffer a loss even at that rate."

Source: The News (March 30, 2017, edition)

Seems Turkish Airlines A330-300 (TC-JOM) was offered on this rate.

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Re: PIA Invites Bids to Wet Lease One Wide-body Aircraft

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So the board of director clowns dont want the airline to really grow. Tender after tender and no aircraft added in the fleet.
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Re: PIA Invites Bids to Wet Lease One Wide-body Aircraft

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^ The BoD has decided to dry lease wide-body aircraft with AVOD seats instead of expensive wet leased aircraft with such seats.

So, it seems PIA Premier service will remain unavailable for significant period of time till the delivery of dry leased aircraft or till PIA's own Boeing 777s start getting new seats, IFE etc.

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