PIA sends two 777 planes to bring back stranded Umrah Pilgrims

ISLAMABAD: Keeping in view the difficulties being faced by Umrah Pilgrims stranded in Saudi Arabia due to an ongoing strike by PIA unions, two Boeing 777 planes have been sent to Jeddah to bring back around 800 of them.

According to the statement issued by the Spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), to provide relief to Umrah Pilgrims, all departments of PIA worked as a great team and made these flights possible. All PIA staff members have been requested to resume duties and save their airline.

The flights operating as PK-741 and PK-7329 departed at around 2 am, said Danyal Gilani, the spokesman of PIA.

He further added that PIA is doing its best to look after its passengers and feels profoundly sorry for the inconvenience caused to all valued PIA passengers due to the illegal strike.