SUKKUR, Oct 31: The PIA Boeing flights operating on the Karachi-Sukkur-Islamabad route are frequently delayed besides being cancelled twice or thrice a week as a result of which the passengers have to suffer.

About a year ago PIA cut down the number of flights from daily to alternate days.

Last week flights PK-390 and PK-391 were cancelled on this route without a reason.

PIA staff on duty told this correspondent on Friday that flight PK-390 (KHI-SUK-ISB), which was scheduled to take off from Sukkur at 11:40am, was delayed by more than four-and-a-half hours.

Many frustrated PIA passengers said that they had to suffer due to the negative tactics of the pilots.

They said that the pilots’ attitude would damage PIA’s prestige and make it lose much-needed revenue.

They said that if the PIA continued all this then the people would prefer travelling by other means.

They approached the PIA MD asking him to take urgent notice of the frequent delays and cancellation of its flights on the Karachi-Sukkur-Islamabad route.

TWO INJURED: A 10-year-old boy, Aqeel Ahmed, and a constable, Gul Mohammad, were injured in an ‘encounter’ between police and dacoits in the New Pind area, Sukkur, on Thursday.