ISLAMABAD In a significant move, Pakistan was taken off the UK’s Air Safety List, enabling the country’s airline and other carriers to reapply for authorization to run direct flights to the UK.
Following a comprehensive examination of aviation safety standards and ongoing technical cooperation with Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA), the UK’s Air Safety Committee made the announcement on Wednesday.
After the bogus pilot license scandal, the UK and European aviation authorities enforced the ban in July 2020.
Ghulam Sarwar Khan, the then-aviation minister in the 2020 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, asserted that pilots were flying aircraft with fictitious licenses. After PIA’s Airbus A-320s crashed in Karachi, killing about 100 people, he responded in this way.
