State-run Pakistan International Airlines has resumed direct flights to Europe following a decision by the European Union’s aviation safety agency to lift a four-year ban over safety standards

Becomes the only carrier to offer a direct route to and from the European Union; PM congratulates nation on flight's successful departure.

The first Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight to Paris in four years has departed Islamabad after a ban from EU airspace was lifted last year.

Pakistan's state-run carrier PIA has resumed flights to Europe after the EU lifted a four-year safety ban. A flight operated by state-run Pakistan International Airlines took off for Paris from Islamabad on Friday morning as the carrier resumed direct flights to Europe following the lifting of a European Union ban.

Pakistan’s national flag carrier on Friday resumed its operations in Europe with the maiden flight to Paris, ending a more than four-year ban by the European Union’s aviation agency over safety standards.

In 2016, a PIA plane burst into flames after one of its two turboprop engines failed during a flight from the remote north to Islamabad, killing more than 40 people. In November, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency announced it had lifted the ban ...

Pakistan’s national airline said Thursday that an advertisement showing a plane heading toward the Eiffel Tower was never intended to evoke the memories of the Sept. 11 attacks. The ad was posted on X by Pakistan International Airlines,

ISLAMABAD — State-run Pakistan International Airlines resumed direct flights to Europe on Friday following a decision by the European Union’s aviation safety agency to lift a four-year ban ...

The ad was meant to celebrate the Pakistani Airline’s return to Europe after European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) lifted its safety ban on PIA on November 2024. However, netizens have come down heavily on the state-owned airline’s controversial post.

The Government of India submitted an official request on August 27, 2024, to become an OCCAR Observer State in the Medium Altitude Long Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (MALE RPAS) program, commonly referred to as Eurodrone or Euromale.

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On May 22, 2020, a PIA Airbus A320 aircraft was operating a domestic flight from Lahore to Karachi when the plane crashed into a crowded residential area near its destination. Of the 99 people on board, 97 lost their lives, while two survived with injuries. The crash also injured eight people on the ground, one of whom later died.