PIA-Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms  (Abbas Ali Collection)

PIA-Shaver poultry breeding farms advertisement from 1966. To prepare in-flight meals for passengers with fresh eggs and chicken meat, PIA decided to establish its own poultry farm in collaboration with Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms Ltd. of Canada. The partnership between two organizations led to formation of PIA-Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms Ltd. in Karachi, in 1964. PIA-Shaver was Pakistan's first modern scientific poultry farm and introduced commercial poultry production in the country. PIA-Shaver new breeds of PIA-Shaver Starcross layers and PIA-Shaver Starbro broilers quickly gained popularity in different parts of the country. The products of PIA-Shaver not only met airline's flight kitchen requirements but also fulfilled requirements of other airlines in-flight meals and local market demand for poultry farm eggs and chicken meat. Later a branch of PIA-Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms was established in Lahore also. Around year 2006, PIA decided to wind up PIA-Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms business which had been shut down in 1993-94

PIA-Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms  (Abbas Ali Collection)

PIA-Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms advertisement from 1976 promoting Shaver 288 as an award winning and world's most profitable layer. The gentleman holding eggs is Canadian national Donald McQueen Shaver who's founder and owner of Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms

PIA-KLM Hotel Midway House Advertisement  (Abbas Ali Collection)

1978 advertisement of Hotel Midway House that was jointly operated by PIA and KLM near Karachi Airport. This hotel was initially established near Karachi Airport by KLM some years before Pakistan emerged on world map as an independent country in 1947. The hotel was named as Midway House because it was located almost in the middle of route for KLM flights operated between Amsterdam and Jakarta. Karachi Airport at that time was used as refueling point for KLM flights between Europe and Asia and KLM crew stayed at Hotel Midway House. In old days, passengers of KLM flights between Asia and Europe also made overnight stay at this hotel. When PIA became KLM business partner in Hotel Midway House, the logo of both airlines became part of hotel logo as seen in this advertisement. The hotel acted as nice and comfortable resting point for transit passengers of PIA flights. For training PIA cabin crew, the fuselage section of PIA's first aircraft i.e. Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation (AP-AFQ) was placed in the premises of Hotel. The aircraft was used for cabin crew training for many years before PIA established PIA Training Centre (PTC) at a new location in Karachi