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RAWALPINDI: Hundreds of passengers faced problems at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport here on Tuesday after PIA employees observed a strike to put pressure on the government to take back a decision to impose a tax on their free tickets.
When PK-368 coming from Karachi landed at the airport at 12.40pm, the PIA’s ground staff refused to attach gangway to the plane and offload luggage of the passengers. When a private agency offered to do the job, it was also stopped by the PIA staff.
The passengers were, however, evacuated from the plane after PIA employees ended the strike.
Published in Dawn, February 4th, 2015
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Feb 05, 2015 08:52pm
I bought a ticket from Turkish Airlines as " buy one get second free " In USA last year. I had to all the taxes ( airport fee, sales tax @ US rate and aviation related fees for all the stop over " on the free ticket. This is common practice of all the governments. There is no such thing as free lunch by the state, PIA employees are spoiled by the union.
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