Pakistan flag carrier resumes UK flights after five-year ban

FILE PHOTO: In this June 8, 2013 photo, a Pakistani International Airline plane takes off from Benazir Bhutto airport in Islamabad, Pakistan. - AP

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's state-owned airline resumed direct flights to Britain on Saturday (Oct 25), after UK authorities ended a five-year suspension imposed over aviation safety concerns.

The debt-ridden flag carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was barred from flying to Britain, the European Union and the United States in June 2020, a month after one of its Airbus A320 aircraft plunged into a Karachi neighbourhood, killing nearly 100 people.