Monday, February 24, 2014 - Islamabad—Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is all set to launch Lahore-Quetta-Mashad (Iran) flight twice a week from Tuesday. The decision to operate flights to Mashad was taken as per advice of the Prime Minister to facilitate ‘zaireen’ of the Holy places in Iran.
According to other decisions taken at PIA’s 354th Board of Directors meeting recently held , thenational flag carrier would acquire revalidation of EASA (European Union Safety Agency) certification by end March 2014 before the new aircraft on dry lease are inducted in PIA fleet.

This is an essential requirement for the airline to keep its operation in the western world but also is imperative to obtain EASA-145 otherwise the new aircrafts will have to be sent abroad for inspection and maintenance checks which certainly become very expensive and financially unviable. However, CAA wiould conduct its inspections prior to that.

The Board approved acquisition of Simulator for the ATR aircraft which not only would save huge expenses being incurred on its pilots while getting training from abroad but also will pave way for generation of revenues by training other airlines both foreign as well as local. For having more transparency in its sales business it has been decided that in future the award of GSAs will be approved through BOD approval.

By Pakistan Observer 

 

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