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Safety Better, Britain Lifts 2020 Ban on Pak Airlines
The New Indian Express Tiruchy
|July 17, 2025
BRITAIN has lifted a years-long ban on Pakistani airlines following improvements in the country's aviation safety standards, the British diplomatic mission in Islamabad said Wednesday.
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The UK's Air Safety Committee imposed the ban after Pakistan's aviation minister in June 2020 disclosed that nearly one-third of the country's pilots had cheated on their licensing exams. The claim came after a Pakistan International Airlines crash killed 97 people on May 24, 2020, in the sou
This story is from the July 17, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Tiruchy.
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