PIA Board of Directors approved the Business Plan 2006-2011 in its 289th
meeting held on 12th September 2005.
The Plan encompasses improved business processes and systems. The plan envisages expansion of PIA's network whereby PIA would be serving all the five Continents by the end of the planned period. The destinations to be added to the PIA routes include Glasgow, Los Angles, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Melbourne/Sydney, Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran, Istanbul, Zurich, Shanghai, Seoul, Almaty and Madrid/Barcelona.
Other highlights of the plan are passenger traffic to increase at an annual average growth rate of 8 percent. The cargo traffic to grow at the rate of 12 percent per annum during the planned period. To cater to the increase in traffic, the plan envisages 12 Boeing 777 family aircraft, 10 new technology Turbo Props, three new generation medium capacity aircraft, 3 Airbus A310 freighters and seven new technology narrow body aircraft.
The Board members appreciated the management's efforts in developing the business plan that aimed at improving customer services.
The meeting chaired by Mr. Tariq Kirmani, Chairman and CEO was attended by Mr. Nawid
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