The Department for Transport UK (DfT-UK) team is will be paying a visit to Pakistan on July 10 to conduct an aviation security assessment to approve direct flights to Europe. The team will assess two major airports in Pakistan, namely the Islamabad International Airport Pakistan and Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore.
The assessment will be done as per DfT-UK’s Overseas Aviation Security Assessment Methodology covering various aspects of flight safety, engineering, and flight operations.
The assessment is expected to provide valuable insights into the safety measures and security protocols at the two airports, potentially paving the way for the resumption of direct flights between Pakistan and Europe.
This comes a month after the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) completed the first phase of the remote audit of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). EASA had imposed a ban on PIA’s direct flights to European countries following a scandal involving fake pilot licenses.