{"id":360631,"date":"2020-07-02T10:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T05:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=360631"},"modified":"2020-07-02T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T05:06:47","slug":"eu-safety-agency-suspends-pakistani-airlines-european-authorisation-for-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-safety-agency-suspends-pakistani-airlines-european-authorisation-for-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"EU safety agency suspends Pakistani airlines&#8217; European authorisation for six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD : The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA) has suspended Pakistan International Airlines&#8217; (PIA) authorisation to fly to the bloc for six months, the airline said on Tuesday, a blow to the carrier&#8217;s operations.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the safety agency said it took the action because of concerns about Pakistan&#8217;s ability to ensure compliance with international aviation standards at all times.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension follows Pakistan&#8217;s grounding of 262 of the country&#8217;s 860 pilots, including 141 of PIA&#8217;s 434, whose licences the aviation minister termed &#8220;dubious&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EASA has temporarily suspended PIA&#8217;s authorization to operate to the EU member states for a period of six months effective July 1, 2020 with the right to appeal,&#8221; PIA said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD : The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA) has suspended Pakistan International Airlines&#8217; (PIA) authorisation to fly to the bloc for six months, the airline said on Tuesday, a blow to the carrier&#8217;s operations. Separately, the safety agency said it took the action because of concerns about Pakistan&#8217;s ability to ensure compliance with international aviation standards at all times. The suspension follows Pakistan&#8217;s grounding of 262 of the country&#8217;s 860 pilots, including 141 of PIA&#8217;s 434, whose licences the aviation minister termed &#8220;dubious&#8221;. &#8220;EASA has temporarily suspended PIA&#8217;s authorization to operate to the EU member states for a period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}