Was sitting randomly watching television and all of a sudden I thought to find out some technical aspects and features available on websites of commercial airlines of Pakistan.
So starting here, we have four commercial airlines in Pakistan ( Here I am talking about commercial passenger airlines that take passengers to nationwide and international destinations).
- Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
- Airblue Limited (Airblue)
- Shaheen Air International (Shaheen Air)
- Air Indus(Service not operative at the moment)
SSL on website
Starting with finding out that if website has SSL certificate installed, and if the website give access to secure version of site by default or not.
| Service | SSL Available | Extended validation | SSL by default |
| PIA | YES | NO | NO |
| AirBlue | YES | NO | NO |
| Shaheen Air | YES | NO | YES |
Online Payment Acceptance
| Service | Accept Payment Online |
| PIA | YES |
| AirBlue | YES |
| Shaheen Air | YES |
Mobile Version of Website
| Service | Mobile Version Available | Responsive |
| PIA | NO | NO |
| AirBlue | NO | NO |
| Shaheen Air | YES | YES |
This is how websites looks on iPhone 6 mobile browser
Data Analytics Tools
In this era of digital marketing, the use of data analytics tool on website is one of the most important factor in order to understand the user behavior and performance of website. Most of the websites are now using different data analytics tools all together like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Woopra,Kiss Metrics and much more. Below on the table we can see how these airlines are tracking their users
| Service | Google Analytics | Any Other |
| PIA | YES | NO |
| AirBlue | NO | NO |
| Shaheen Air | YES | NO |
Mobile Application
| Service | Android | iOS | Microsoft |
| PIA | YES | NO | NO |
| AirBlue | NO | NO | NO |
| Shaheen Air | YES | YES | YES |
Social Profiles