Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilot, Rifat, had placed a wish before Purser, Ghulam Mustafa Sahi, to place his ‘favourite’ air-hostess at the flight, Experss Tribune has reported.
Source/Credit: News Tribe / Express Tribune
By News Tribe Webdesk | November 15, 2013
[See correction / update below]
ISLAMABAD: 'If you do not place my favourite air-hostess in the plane, I will not fly it,' was reported by News Tribe website as the argument put forward by a pilot of the national flag carrier which, the News Tribe further asserted, had put hundreds of passengers in trouble.
News Tribe website, referring to a story in Experss Tribune, a Pakistani English Daily, said that "Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilot, Rifat, had placed a wish before Purser, Ghulam Mustafa Sahi, to place his[*] ‘favourite’ air-hostess at the flight."
The flight PK-719 was going from Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, to United Kingdom’s city Birmingham.
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* Ahmadiyya Times Update: It has been brought into the notice of Ahmadiyya Times' editors that there is a correction, additional information and more context to this story - that News Tribe ignored.- is significant to note here.
The pilot in the story is actually a female and her full name is Captain Riffet Haye. Reportedly their is prior feud that may have played a part in exacerbating the circumstances reported in this story. According to one source, "the problem was not carrying a "favourite air hostess" but posting her to the cockpit."
Pakistan's English Daily, The Express Tribune has reported that there are claims that Haye was being targeted after she complained about the attitude of two male pilots.
According to The Express Tribune Heye had alleged before the Supreme Court that female staff of the national carrier were a continuous target of sexual harassment and as a result of their compliant they have been 'subsequently victimised by the higher management.'
“Harassment and subsequent victimisation is rampant in PIA," The express Tribune noted Haye's claim. "I am not the only staff member who has faced such problems."
"I am alone in only speaking against the problem,” Heye had asserted, according to the Express Tribune.
“I brought my problem into the notice of the higher management of PIA but no action was taken; instead the management started targeting me and hurdles were being created in my promotion,” Express Tribune quoted Haye's statment.
-- Pakistan: PIA pilots wish for favourite air-hostess puts Islamabad-Birmingham flight in trouble
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Riffet is a women. Her full name is Riffet Haye...she is the first women commercial pilot of Pakistan...Mustafa Sahi has an 'attitude' problem..how many times he was off loaded by other pilots...u shd find out urself with PIA....
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