Pakistan International Airline (PIA), Pakistan’s flag carrier which was founded over the wreckage of few piston engines of a tiny Orient Airways in 1954 and surfaced at international arena as a fast growing airline with highly skilled and competitive spirit organization. Its success stories includes; the first Asian Airline in 1960 that operated a pure jet passenger aircraft Boeing 707 on the Karachi-London sector, the first non-communist airline operating a flight to China and Moscow, having rated as the leading and the most efficient airline for the year 1981 Hajj operation. Despite of all the years of glories and success, the late 1990s saw decline in its growing trend and high rise in operating cost with shrinking returns. Since 2000 the air line’s dismal performance has brought it nearly at a stage of bankruptcy. Over the year’s successive governments have issued bailout packages through number of financial injections which were doled out to meet the over staffed employees’ salaries and managerial pearls and packages but nothing has been done to improve its operational worthiness and revive the passengers trust and satisfaction.
An insight into its recorded performance of the PIA in its annual reports 200 to 2013 and related literature defines the organization with; world highest employees-aircraft ratio, sagging aircrafts with high maintenance cost and rising rate of accidents,