ISLAMABAD: Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Friday announced that domestic flight operations will resume from Saturday after a nearly two-month-long suspension. However, he added that only Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Serene Air would be allowed to resume flight operations between five cities — Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta. “Twenty per cent of pre-coronavirus flights will be allowed to operate and the seat occupancy in planes will be limited to 50pc,” he said. The government had suspended the operation of all types of domestic scheduled and non-scheduled chartered and private aircraft passenger flights from March 21, the minister said. Meanwhile, the suspension of international flights has been extended by 16 days to May 31, according to a PCAA notification.

Source: Pakistan Today May 15, 2020 13:07 UTC