PIA flight operations to EU suspended indefinitely by bloc's aviation authority By 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