Pakistan Airline Pilots' Association (Palpa) has helped PIA administration in saving Rs 400 million, the biggest sum of money ever saved through cost-cutting measures in the history of the airline and are working on saving millions more President Palpa, Captain Suhail Baluch revealed this in a statement issued here on Friday.
President Palpa mentioned that he is heading the Cost-Cutting Committee as Chairman, constituted by PTA MD, Nadeem Yousuf Zai and aims at taking immediate cost-cutting measures in order to provide some relief to the already financially crippling national carrier. The Committee includes senior and experienced members including First Officers, Flight Purser Noor Leghari, he added.
He said that a team of Palpa members and senior PIA officials has been assigned a task to reduce the operational expenditures of the airline by utilising all possible options including the scheduling of national and international routes and destinations within a controlled budget.
Through the experience of senior Palpa members included in the committee, planning of crew slip, cockpit crew and cabin crew patterns were reconsidered and massive cost-cutting measures were applied successfully, he added. Suhail Baluch gave special credit to Flight Purser Noor Leghari that owing to his vast experience of scheduling rosters, huge budget of the airline has been saved as cabin crew and cockpit crews have been assigned the flights in the manner that they would not need to stay in hotels.
Previously, the PTA management used to spend millions of rupees only as the staying expense of cabin crew and cockpit crew in luxury hotels, he added. President Palpa thanked PTA management and MD for showing complete trust on the members of the committee and providing them full authority to wither away extra or unnecessary expenditures for reducing operational cost of the airline.-PR