Islamabad-Chitral flights in limbo

Chitratoday.com
THE Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Rawalpindi on Monday
cancelled its scheduled resumption of flights to Chitral citing
operation problems and asked the intending passengers to
contact its Peshawar office for tickets.
Those waiting the relaunch of the flights for the last many days
criticised the PIA for failing to fulfil its promise at the eleventh
hour.
IT seems that the PIA administration has taken its Islamabad-
Chitral flights for granted, as even most of the officials at the
national flag carrier's office in Rawalpindi were not aware of the
flight resumption in the first place.
On Saturday, the officials at the PIA office had issued unconfirmed
tickets for Chitral for Monday and asked the passengers to get
them confirmed on Sunday. But on Sunday they said as the
flight from Peshawar could not be operated, therefore flights
from Islamabad would be relaunched from Tuesday. When the
ticket seekers again went to the office on Monday morning, they
were asked either to get their money refunded or proceed to
Peshawar as PIA was unable to start the flights from Islamabad
due to operational problems.
The frustrated passengers including women and children criticised
the management of the PIA and called upon their elected
representatives to take up the issue in parliament and other forums
and direct the PIA to stop playing joke with the people of Chitral.