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Pakistan’s National Flag Carrier, Pakistan International Airlines Clears Licenses of 110 pilots
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ISLAMABAD, 15 December 2020, (TON): Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) cleared 110 pilots out of the 141 whose licences to fly the aircrafts were suspended in the backdrop of the fake degrees controversy. 14 pilots had been declared unfit to fly.
The three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed had taken up an appeal moved by PIA Chief Executive Officer Air Marshal Arshad Malik against a Sindh High Court order.
The information came when Justice Umar Ata Bandial asked what steps were taken by the airline to vet the suspended licences and whether the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) was pushing the issue enough to get back the business by verifying the licences.
The issues of licenses surfaced in the wake of the tragic crash of a PIA plane in Karachi on 22 May, killing about 95 people.
It aroused widespread concerns about the safety of PIA, many countries of the world banned PIA flights.
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