EASA Allows Pakistani Airlines to Resume Flights to/from Europe

[Abbas Ali]

European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) lifts restrictions on Pakistani airlines' flights to/from Europe.

Pakistani airlines including PIA and airblue allowed to operate flights to & from Europe. More Pakistani airlines expected to seek permission to start flights to & from Europe.

Pakistani airlines commercial passenger and cargo flights to & from European Union (EU) member states were suspended since July 2020.

Abbas

[Karachi Aviator]

About time PIA brings back the grounded 777s. Paris as expected will be the first destination. I would've done 6x weekly: 3x from Lahore and 3x from Islamabad. But knowing what PIA has done historically, it would be 1x weekly for both stations.

[Abbas Ali]

EASA message to DG Pakistan CAA Nadir Shafi shared on social media.



Abbas

[TAILWIND]

EASA message to DG Pakistan CAA Nadir Shafi shared on social media.
Abbas

Mr Cordes will not be happy on release of a confidential message to public. DG CAA office should look into this.

[Sami Warsi]

Alhamduillah, now its time to revive Pakistan aviation again, specially we have two new buddies for EU.... Good Luck for FJ and AirSial.

[Badar42]

Thank God .. It's gonna bring massive relief to us living in these parts of the world. Let's pray no one messes up this time.

[danyal77W]

This was supposed to be confidential

[Safwan Waqas]

I still doubt.

[AviationLover2020]

EASA message to DG Pakistan CAA Nadir Shafi shared on social media.
Abbas

Mr Cordes will not be happy on release of a confidential message to public. DG CAA office should look into this.

I think the CAA waited until the confidentiality expired. They asked for it to be confidential until 1300 UTC (at which time operators would be informed) and this is when it was released.

Other than that, great news Alhamdulillah. Hope it brings success for Pak aviation industry.

[Amaad Lone]

What about UK flights?

Much more important than Europe

[Abbas Ali]

PIA celebrating EASA permission and indicates plan to start flights for Paris by showing Pont Alexandre III bridge in Paris.



Abbas

[Usman123]

Is the current PIA fleet of 16 active planes even capable to cater to the fight demand ? These old airframes will be down for maintenance every now and then if flight ops start to EU. To get all 777s airborne heavy funds and time is required, can't see any flights happening in next 2 months.

[A35K]

Does anyone know what happend to PIA London Heathrow slots? If leased out to another airline, it might be a while before they can get them back and so a while before Heathrow service starts.

[planefan2003]

True plus i’m sure AP-BHW and AP-BGL have been removed from the fleet, going into 2025 demand will rise and there will be a lack of Aircraft.

[planefan2003]

Also AirBlue has loaded Manchester flights into their system

https://x.com/seanm1997/status/1862583 ... 92521?s=46