newscaster
6th Feb 2006, 12:07
Airport ground handler Singapore Airport Terminal Services Ltd - SATS, Wednesday said it has signed a broad-based collaboration agreement with Pakistan International Airlines Corp.
SATS a unit of Singapore Airlines Ltd. will initially offer PIA technical services such as managing the Pakistan airline's Karachi flight kitchen, and at a later stage form an inflight catering joint venture with PIA, it said in a statement.
Apart from managing the Karachi flight kitchen, SATS said it will invest in upgrading the kitchen and inflight catering equipment, and help to improve the quality and variety of PIA's meals in the initial phase of collaboration.
That joint venture to be undertaken in the later period will be through SATS associate, Aviserv Ltd., and will provide inflight catering services at Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore and other airports within Pakistan.
"SATS was selected after the completion by PIA of a comprehensive and transparent tender process and evaluation exercise, in which other reputable international inflight caterers also competed," PIA Chairman and Chief Executive Tariq Kirmani said in a statement.
SATS a unit of Singapore Airlines Ltd. will initially offer PIA technical services such as managing the Pakistan airline's Karachi flight kitchen, and at a later stage form an inflight catering joint venture with PIA, it said in a statement.
Apart from managing the Karachi flight kitchen, SATS said it will invest in upgrading the kitchen and inflight catering equipment, and help to improve the quality and variety of PIA's meals in the initial phase of collaboration.
That joint venture to be undertaken in the later period will be through SATS associate, Aviserv Ltd., and will provide inflight catering services at Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore and other airports within Pakistan.
"SATS was selected after the completion by PIA of a comprehensive and transparent tender process and evaluation exercise, in which other reputable international inflight caterers also competed," PIA Chairman and Chief Executive Tariq Kirmani said in a statement.