ICAO says Pakistan civil aviation has resolved significant safety concerns
Pakistan’s airlines are set to resume flight operations to the US, the UK, and the European Union as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has said Pakistan’s civil aviation regulator has resolved significant safety concerns.
The international flight operations remained suspended nearly a year and a half since the aviation authorities of the US, the UK, and the European Union banned airlines from Pakistan following the 2020 scandal over fake pilot licences.
However, ICAO’s delayed safety audit of Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is now complete. A letter officially declaring the satisfactory results was signed on Tuesday this week, initiating a return for Pakistani carriers to the Western countries.
ICAO “has withdrawn its objection on significant safety concerns,” confirmed a CAA spokesman, Saifullah Khan.
A nine-member ICAO committee carried out a 10-day audit in Pakistan, which was concluded in early December.
Pakistan’s aviation authority distributed a statement which said: “The Committee determined that the actions taken by Pakistan had successfully resolved significant safety concerns.”