THAI maintains highest safety standards
June 18, 2015
After a lot of talk about Thai flag carriers losing permission to fly to Europe and North America due to safety issues, Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (THAI) today announced that it
After a lot of talk about Thai flag carriers losing permission to fly to Europe and North America due to safety issues, Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (THAI) today announced that it operates with the highest safety standards in all operational areas.
Mr. Charamporn Jotikasthira, THAI President, said that in light of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) public posting a red flag today on Thailand’s Department of Civil Aviation (Thai DCA), as a result of the findings during the ICAO Universal Safety Oversight Audit Program (USOAP) and the issuance of a Significant Safety Concern (SSC), Thai Airways International wants to reassure the travelling public that THAI operates with the highest safe
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April 9, 2021
KARACHI: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has indefinitely extended the suspension of Pakistan International Airlines flight operations in EU, “until all necessary information is available to decide on the way forward.”
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency had suspended the Third Country Operations Authorization (TCOA) to PIA in July 2020 initially for six months following the controversial and several time modified statement of the Minister of Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan regarding the verification of degrees of Pakistani pilots working in the national flag carrier and other airlines.
The EASA decision to suspend PIA flight operations to EU had come in February 2021, after the International Civil Aviation Organisation made public a ‘Significant Safety Concern for Pakistan, indicating a serious degradation of Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority certification and oversight capabilities.
PIA flight operations to EU suspended indefinitely by bloc s aviation authority
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Friday Apr 09, 2021
PIA’s Third Country Operations Authorization was suspended by the EU in July 2020 for six months.
The suspension came over controversial statements by Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan about verification of degrees of Pakistani pilots.
EASA rejects CAA offer and says information shared by Pakistani authority did not help end their uneasiness about oversight.
KARACHI: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has indefinitely extended the suspension of Pakistan International Airlines flight operations to the EU until it has all the necessary information “available to decide on the way forward”, reported
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CAA negligence costs PIA over Rs19 billion
Easa’s decision to ban flights for an indefinite period deals a blow to flag carrier
ISLAMABAD:
In the last 9 months, the national flag carrier – the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) – has suffered a loss of over Rs19billion on account of a ban imposed on its flight operation by the European Union (EU) primarily due to the negligence of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Sources in the PIA said the airline has to incur a loss of Rs2.2billion every month since July 2020 when the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa) placed a six-month ban on the PIA flights in the wake of PIA plane crash and a subsequent scandal about issuance of fake flying license to commercial pilots.