PIA to resume flights to EU in Jan

European aviation regulators may have lifted the ban on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to operate in various destinations across the European Union (EU). However, PIA is expected to resume flights to the EU starting January 2025, approximately one month from now.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on Friday issued its authorization for PIA, paving the way for resumption of PIA's flight operation to the continent after nearly four and a half years and a loss of approximately Rs450 billion.

EASA had imposed a six-month temporary ban on all Pakistani airlines on June 30, 2020 after a government investigation launched in the wake of a PIA plane crash in Karachi revealed that licenses of 262 Pakistani pilots were fake.

Sources revealed that PIA's will first resume flight operation to Paris in January next year.