{"id":37217,"date":"2024-05-23T13:14:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T08:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=37217"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:14:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T08:14:17","slug":"pia-announces-discount-on-international-flights-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pia-announces-discount-on-international-flights-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"PIA announces discount on international flights for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced a 20 percent discount for Pakistani students traveling to China to pursue academic degrees, state-run <em>APP<\/em> reported quoting airline official.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The national flag carrier has also increased baggage allowance up to 60 kilograms on its one flight weekly operating from the Islamabad-Beijing-Islamabad <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">route\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">every Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The students who are planning to go to Pakistan for the <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">summer<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> holidays or want to travel to their\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">homeland<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> after completion of their educational degrees could\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">benefit from the discount.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"detail_page_content\">\n<p>Ali Imran, a Pakistani researcher, said that a large number of Pakistani students are currently studying in different cities in China. The discount offered by PIA would greatly facilitate them as they could enjoy both a discount on fares and an increase in the baggage allowance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pia-to-restore-flight-operations-from-skardu-to-dubai\/\">PIA to restore flight operations from Skardu to Dubai<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Earlier,\u00a0PIA\u00a0increased the discount rate on its fares to 27% for students wishing to travel to China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The national flag carrier also slashed fares of economy and executive economy classes on domestic flights by 20% on Eid ul Fitr.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced a 20 percent discount for Pakistani students traveling to China to pursue academic degrees, state-run APP reported quoting airline official. The national flag carrier has also increased baggage allowance up to 60 kilograms on its one flight weekly operating from the Islamabad-Beijing-Islamabad route\u00a0every Sunday. The students who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3657,11905,17367],"class_list":["post-37217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-pakistan-international-airlines","tag-pia-discount","tag-pia-discount-for-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}