POST BY PEOPLES CHAMP------ ABT PIA HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE
Congrats Danny. My family joined me last week and trust me it just feels a different world. Good Luck with everything and I pray that both of you have a successful, happy, and a great life.
TIP... Please do not fly from PIA. My wife's flight was not only delayed by 7 hours, they also treated the passengers like *censored word*.
Night before the flight she received a call from PIA to confirm the flight and the seat. She left at 4 for the airport to catch a 8 am flight. When reached at the airport, PIA staff said the flight from KHI hasn't arrived to ISB yet and the new flight time is 11:30 and check-in will start at 8:00 am. She went back home and at 7:30 before leaving called and confirmed for the flight departure, which was at 11:30. ALL OK confirmed by the staff.
Reached airport, said Good byes, and went for checking in. After customs, security checks, and paper checks when she reached at the counter for her boarding pass, the PIA staff said that the new time is now 1:00 pm. She gave my wife an option to go back outside and check in again 2 hrs before the flight or she can issue her a boarding pass and my wife can wait in the lounge. My wife decided to check in and wait in the lounge, since I have a 18 months old daughter too and it is not easy to go back and forth. During her wait in the lounge the time changed from 1 to 1:30. Finally, PIA started boarding passengers. Went through the process of checks into the bus that takes to the plane. Now the staff standing near the plane is not allowing the passengers to get on the plane. Imagine 75-100 ppl standing on the runway. After some heated exchange of words with the some passengers who were Canadian citizens and staff, they allowed the passengers to sit in the plane. After everyone is seated in the plane, PIA flight staff made everyone get off the plane again. No reason was given. Now again all passengers from KHI and ISB are off the plane, standing on the runway. After 30 mins PIA staff finally decided that punishment for the passengers is over and they made them sit in the plane. The plane finally left 2:30 pm from Islamabad for Toronto.
I guess PIA actually taught its passengers a lesson for flying on PIA and never to forget the PIA experience. Pay some extra money and choose other airlines over PIA. Our reason was that she couldn't travel using a connecting flight coz she is pregnant. But I strongly believe that even with connecting flights her journey would have been less stressful and less painful.
