Pakistan’s broken airline on its knees after crash, fake pilot scandal and impact of coronavirus

For decades Pakistan International Airlines stood for a resurgent postcolonial nation, flying the flag from New York to Tokyo. Now the airline is struggling to recover from a fatal crash, years of losses, a collapse in global air travel and the stunning revelation that almost a third of the nation’s pilots obtained fake licences.That latest admission, from Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan, tipped the airline from crisis to full-blown catastrophe. Khan did not say whether the pilots of the…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3092247/pakistans-broken-airline-its-knees-after-crash-fake-pilot