06-21-2006, 05:02 AM
Profile your passengers
Air India is the national flag carrier of India. Its livery, local stewardesses attired in their national dress proudly reflect the culture of the country. Look at Thai Air. It carries more Pakistani passengers from Lahore or Karachi to Bangkok, than does PIA. It offers these passengers a choice of various connections to Singapore, Australia, Far East. This airline also has an all-Thai cabin crew. It is only British Airways which employs a few Urdu/Punjabi speaking cabin crew (British nationals) on its flights to Islamabad, to cater to the 95% passenger profile on this particular sector.
PIA is the national flag carrier of Pakistan. Its cabin crew of Pakistani origin fluently speaks English as well as the local languages. Maybe PIA needs to hire a few Kashmiri speaking girls and boys, who can make the bulk of its passengers travelling to and from UK, feel more at ease. Most of them are shy of travelling on other airlines, because they feel more at home on board the PIA. I fail to understand the logic of PIA hiring foreigners as cabin stewardesses. Why are we so apologetic about our origins, our culture and our national identity? -GULL ZEE, Paris, France, via e-mail, May 18.
Air India is the national flag carrier of India. Its livery, local stewardesses attired in their national dress proudly reflect the culture of the country. Look at Thai Air. It carries more Pakistani passengers from Lahore or Karachi to Bangkok, than does PIA. It offers these passengers a choice of various connections to Singapore, Australia, Far East. This airline also has an all-Thai cabin crew. It is only British Airways which employs a few Urdu/Punjabi speaking cabin crew (British nationals) on its flights to Islamabad, to cater to the 95% passenger profile on this particular sector.
PIA is the national flag carrier of Pakistan. Its cabin crew of Pakistani origin fluently speaks English as well as the local languages. Maybe PIA needs to hire a few Kashmiri speaking girls and boys, who can make the bulk of its passengers travelling to and from UK, feel more at ease. Most of them are shy of travelling on other airlines, because they feel more at home on board the PIA. I fail to understand the logic of PIA hiring foreigners as cabin stewardesses. Why are we so apologetic about our origins, our culture and our national identity? -GULL ZEE, Paris, France, via e-mail, May 18.