PIA Awards+Plus - Absolute convenience in a single card

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:52 am

PIA advertisement in today's (December 9, 2005) newspaper.

PK777 · Post by **PK777** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:38 pm

New cards:

Above the green stripe the colour should be white to go with the new livery

Off-topic to Nasir:

I remember you designed a new boarding pass and flight booklet to go with the new livery. Did you get a reply from the outcome ? Is it possible to see it again ?

CoyBoy · Post by **CoyBoy** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:56 am

Their e-ticketing ad a week back was so bad I didnt even know it was PIA's until I happpened to glance at the logo below it.

nutsforplanes · Post by **nutsforplanes** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:45 pm

Their e-ticketing ad a week back was so bad I didnt even know it was PIA's until I happpened to glance at the logo below it.

You think thats bad! Their awards+ service is even worse. Last month I decided to redeem some of my points for a roundtrip LHE-KHI Economy+ ticket. I sent in a request on Nov 15. PIA is supposed to notify confirmation thru e-mail. I never heard from them. Its only when I checked my account, it said to pick up my ticket before Nov 28 otherwise I would be penalised 2000 points, and this was Dec 1st. I called PIA, they told me that I could still pick up the ticket without being penalised.

Anyway, I rushed to the the main booking office behind WAPDA house, probably the worst PIA booking office I have ever been into.
They have only three stations to handle domestic bookings and please PIA get some people who can type with both hands without looking at the keyboard......

The woman at the counter felt perturbed about getting up to check the box file for my confirmation, told me that I have to pay Govt. taxes in cash( Rs 1590), which was quite a shock

All in all, I got my ticket for 23,000 points, Rs 1590 in Govt taxes and a whole lot of inconvenience

SalamPaks · Post by **SalamPaks** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:34 pm

nutsforplanes wrote:
All in all, I got my ticket for 23,000 points, Rs 1590 in Govt taxes and a whole lot of inconvenience

Awards Plus is by far the worse freqent flyer program in the industry. On the odd occasion I have checked my balances, they have always been incorrect. I don't fancy talking to them on the phone about it and frankly I don't want their points anyway for the reasons described in the above post.

The only good thing about the program is that I had been given complimentary Diamond status a couple of years ago and although I do not fly enough to earn it each year, I appear to have diamond status for life (In other words, their system does not reset my status back to emerald each Jan 1st).

smarties · Post by **smarties** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:39 pm

you also do not get as many point as before. you get half the points now, like before europe - pakistan you could get about 4000 points, now its down to 2,000. The programme has become $&*#%

PakN'US · Post by **PakN'US** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:59 pm

I applied for rewards program a while ago and PIA even sent me a confirmation e-mail but no card as yet!!! I have never seen any thing like this with United or American airlines, I belong to their awards program as well.

allmyfamilyinpia · Post by **allmyfamilyinpia** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:29 am

you will only get the card pak'n'us after your first trip on pia that is registered.

flew ord-lhe where gave my card number to the ticket agent. not credited.
lhe-iah only got credited cos I waited in the pia office ( look at my username) while a colleague of dad's made sure my FF was in the system correctly. and 3750 points for lhe-iah, bah. I am an Explat on AA gonna stick with that and now with SQ doing flights into Pak again, * Alliance here I come. awards + sucks, to put it nicely.

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:51 am

"Now! simply swipe"

(PIA advertisement in today's (December 12, 2005) newspaper).

PakN'US · Post by **PakN'US** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:57 am

Only if I receive my card, may be I will be able to swipe it!!!!