In 2020, EASA banned PIA from its most lucrative routes in Europe, Britain after PIA plane crash in Karachi killed nearly 100, followed by scandal over pilot licenses
TCO authorisation issued to Airblue Limited as well
Volocopter is now the first and only electric vertical take-off and landing company holding both the required design and production organisation approvals to advance its aircraft towards commercial launch.
"This is a retrograde and disappointing development," Walsh said in a statement issued by the International Air Transport Association, which counts most of the world's major airlines among its 293 members.
We have every confidence that the aircraft is safe, which is the precondition for giving our approval.
In parallel, and at our insistence, Boeing has also committed to work to enhance the aircraft still further in the medium term, in order to reach an even higher level of safety.
