Renowned motivational speaker and corporate trainer Mr. Qasim Ali Shah visited COTHM New Garden Town Campus. Mr. Shah was welcomed by Mr Ahmad Shafiq, Founder & CEO COTHM Pakistan and Dubai. Mr. Shah and CEO COTHM pondered over the future collaboration of COTHM network and Qasim Ali Shah Foundation. Later, Mr. Shah addressed the students and emphasized expanding one’s horizon beyond textbooks, towards skills and specialization, and striving for unmitigated focus in the field of one’s passion. Speaking during the session, Shah says, “No matter how many obstacles you face in life, you can get up.” The motivational session was…
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ISTANBUL: Turkish Airlines has announced the restart of flights from the UAE. The flag carrier recommenced its operations from Dubai, scheduling seven flights per week with wide body aircrafts. Operations from Abu Dhabi will be resumed starting from January 2 with four weekly flights as well. Turkish Airlines will connect passengers via Istanbul Airport to more than 200 international flights, while providing its passengers peace of mind and safe travel experience with new precautions in place. More information about the airline’s updated flight plan is available here. Having worked with government officials and relevant national and international authorities, the flag…
MUSCAT: Oman Air is pleased to announce an expanded code-share cooperation with Qatar Airways that will boost connectivity and provide more flexible travel options for both airline’s customers. The expanded codeshare agreement is the first step in further strengthening strategic cooperation between the two airlines that first began in 2000. Sales of the additional destinations will commence in 2021. Oman Air Chief Executive Officer Engineer Abdulaziz Al Raisi, said: “We are delighted to expand our commercial cooperation with Qatar Airways, which will streamline flying for leisure travellers from around the world to enjoy Oman’s culture, scenic beauty and hospitality,…
RAWALPINDI: AirSial on Friday, December 25, started its Karachi-Islamabad flights operation using Airbus A320-200. Prime Minister Imran Khan had inaugurated AirSial on Dec 9, the third private airline of Pakistan, which had been launched and operated by Sialkot’s business community, initially with three Airbus A320-200s. The first flight of AirSial with 185 passengers on board departed from Jinnah International Airport on Friday morning on domestic route and touched down the Islamabad International Airport at around 9:15am. On arrival at IIAP, the Air Sial staff members welcomed the passengers. Later the flight took off for Karachi. AirSial, a licensed airline, is…
KUALA LUMPUR: With an estimated decline of $25 billion in tourism receipts in 2020, Malaysia launched a 10-year plan to resurrect its battered tourism sector. The plan will position the country as a leader in sustainable and inclusive tourism, and as an eco-tourism destination. That will mean finding a balance between tourism development and conservation, says Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. “Clearly, we have been impacted by the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic this year and economic activities related to the tourism industry… are being forced to face their most difficult moments,” Muhyiddin said during the virtual launch of the national…
KARACHI: A day after Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan expressed hopes that the ban imposed on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to operate flights in Europe would be lifted soon, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) informed the national flag carrier that the ban had been extended by three months and that it would not be reviewed until a safety audit of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), it emerged on Saturday, December 26. Only on Friday, the aviation minister had told reporters in Taxila that most concerns of EASA regarding the process of issuing licences to commercial pilots had been…
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has unveiled its detailed restructuring plan under which the national flag carrier will complete the process of shifting its headquarters to Islamabad by June 2021 while reducing the number of its employees by almost half. According to the plan, 7,500 of the 14,500 PIA employees will be laid off as per the voluntary separation scheme (VSS). Three thousand and five-hundred employees will be laid off under the VSS in the ongoing month. This will help the company save Rs10.5 billion annually. The number of employees for each aircraft will be reduced from 500 to…
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently unveiled key design elements of the IATA Travel Pass. The pass is a mobile application that will help travellers to manage their travel easily and securely in line with any government requirements for COVID-19 testing or vaccine information. IATA emphasised that the critical design elements would put travellers in control of their personal information for top-level data security and data privacy. The IATA Travel Pass stores encrypted data including verified test or vaccination results on the mobile device of the traveller. Global standards recognised by governments are also employed to ensure verified identity…
GENEVA: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Kamil H. Al-Awadhi will be appointed IATA’s Regional Vice President for Africa and Middle East (AME), effective March 1, 2021. Al-Awadhi succeeds Muhammad Albakri who will become IATA’s Senior Vice-President for Customer, Financial, and Digital Services (CFDS), also effective March 1, 2021. As previously announced, Albakri will replace Aleks Popovich in the CFDS role upon his retirement. Most recently, Al-Awadhi was CEO of Kuwait Airways, a responsibility he held from November 2018 through August 2020. That capped a 31-year career at Kuwait Airways during which his positions included Deputy CEO and…
NEW YORK: Officials in New York have introduced quarantine rules for international travellers following the emergence of new Covid-19 variants. There are fears of new strains in countries including the UK and South Africa. New York mayor, Bill de Blasio, said all visitors would be ordered to stay for 14-days at the address they provided on arrival. He added said anyone arriving from the UK would be visited by police to ensure they abide by the rules. Those who breach them will be fined $1,000 (£737) a day, de Blasio warned. About 18.4 million coronavirus cases and more than 326,000…