{"id":6906,"date":"2020-06-30T13:58:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=6906"},"modified":"2020-06-30T13:58:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:58:26","slug":"pia-banned-in-europe-for-6-months-after-irresponsible-statement-of-minister-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pia-banned-in-europe-for-6-months-after-irresponsible-statement-of-minister-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"PIA BANNED IN EUROPE FOR 6 MONTHS AFTER IRRESPONSIBLE STATEMENT OF MINISTER AVIATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6907\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pia_europe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pia_europe.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pia_europe-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pia_europe-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Karachi, June 30, 2020:European Union Air Safety Agency has temporarily suspended PIA\u2019s authorization to operate to the EU member states for a period of 6 months effective July 1, 2020 : with the right to appeal against this decision.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam has also terminated the services of some Pakistani pilots who were serving there.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan said last week that 30 % of Pilots of Pakistani Airlines carry fake licenses that was no doubt irresponsible statement. Later after few days the same minister used the word &#8220;Dubious&#8221; in place of &#8221; Fake&#8221; certainly when he got afterthought or when he was scolded from somewhere that your statement can cause irreparable loss to national carrier and other Pakistani airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, PIA is discontinuing its flights to Europe temporarily, all passengers booked on PIA flights to European sectors will have the option to either extend their bookings for a later date or get full refunds.<\/p>\n<p>PIA is in contact with EASA to allay their concerns and to take necessary corrective measures along with filing the appeal against the decision .<\/p>\n<p>PIA sincerely hopes that with reparative and swift actions taken by the Government of Pakistan and PIA Management, earliest possible lifting of this suspension can be expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi, June 30, 2020:European Union Air Safety Agency has temporarily suspended PIA\u2019s authorization to operate to the EU member states for a period of 6 months effective July 1, 2020 : with the right to appeal against this decision. Vietnam has also terminated the services of some Pakistani pilots who were serving there. Minister Aviation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,46],"tags":[385,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6908,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions\/6908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}