PIA – the rise, fall and decline of a national flag-carrier on April 7, 2018Pakistan International Airlines, commonly known as PIA, is the national flag-carrier of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. PIA was founded on October 23rd, 1946 as Orient Airways – a local private-owned airline, based in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India. Orient Airways was the first and the only pre-partition Muslim owned airline. Initial funding for […]