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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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