Credibility crisis hits Pakistan International Airlines, CAA over ‘dubious licenses’ of pilots
After the disclosure of Pakistan’s minister for Aviation about fake and dubious licenses of pilots, the credibility of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has taken a massive hit.The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has also expressed concern over the ‘serious lapse in the licensing and safety oversight by the aviation regulator’.The controversy drew global attention after the federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan in the National Assembly declared that 150 pilots of the national flag carrier had fake licenses.Amid the aviation crisis, the PIA management has decided to ground one-third or 150 of its pilots and started relieving them from flight rosters for allegedly possessing ‘dubious licenses’, while asking the CAA to u