{"id":650028,"date":"2025-10-27T08:47:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650028"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:46:32","slug":"pakistans-national-flag-carrier-resumes-uk-flights-after-five-year-ban-over-fake-pilot-licence-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistans-national-flag-carrier-resumes-uk-flights-after-five-year-ban-over-fake-pilot-licence-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s national flag carrier resumes UK flights after five-year ban over fake pilot licence scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: State-run Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Saturday resumed its flight operations to the UK after a five-year suspension following a ban imposed over a fake pilot licence scandal. <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;first flight from Islamabad to Manchester since July 2020 departed with 284 passengers&#8221; on board in the presence of Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, the PIA said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: State-run Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Saturday resumed its flight operations to the UK after a five-year suspension following a ban imposed over a fake pilot licence scandal. The &#8220;first flight from Islamabad to Manchester since July 2020 departed with 284 passengers&#8221; on board in the presence of Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, the PIA said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650028","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}