PIA lost passengers' luggage worth over Rs20 million in five years

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) lost luggage of passengers worth over Rs20 million in last five years, an audit report released on Saturday revealed.

As per the report, luggage worth more than Rs20 million belonging to PIA passengers was lost during the years 2012 to 2016.

Luggage worth Rs3,975,000 went missing from Multan and Bahawalpur airports during 2012-13. while during 2014-15, luggage worth Rs24,023,000 went missing from Karachi airport, the report said.

The audit report said it was due to the negligence of the PIA’s management that the luggage belonging to passengers kept going missing.”The management was apprised of the situation in 2017 but no response was received,” it added.

According to the rules and regulations, the duty officer is responsible if luggage goes missing, the report noted.

Last month, Prime Minister Imran Khan had directed officials to devise a business plan to transform the Pakistan International Airline into a profit-making body and furnish the plan in this regard by March end.

Minister for Aviation, Mohammad Mian Soomro had said that a corruption mafia was active in the PIA and the airline was bearing huge losses in its operations.