Pakistan CAA Gives Shaheen Air 45 Days to Continue Flight Operations

[ammad]

Seniors of CAA should help fix this issue. This is not right way of regulatory body to put hurdles for local Airline, look what UAE civil aviation authority is doing for Emirates. Since inception of EK they are helping EK to grow and prosper and result is obvious. If the issue of payment is there, that can be negotiated or put in installments but barricading progress of Shaheen in this fashion is very alarming for local business.

[Abbas Ali]

Shaheen Air has not operated flight NL-678 from Multan to Muscat, so far.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/nl678

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

SAl, CAA trade barbs over routes

By Our Staff Reporter | 5/14/2017

KARACHl: The Shaheen Air International (SAl) and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) continue to hurl allegations at each other with the airline claiming that actions are being taken against it unnecessarily while the regulator maintains that the SAI is not fulfilling legal formalities.

The SAI in its statement on Saturday said it was to start its inaugural flight from Faisalabad this week but it had to postpone it. A new schedule would be announced later.

It was the second time that the inauguration flight has been postponed. A few weeks ago, the SAI was to stan the inaugural flights from Multan and Faisalabad to new destinations, but the CAA did not give permission for Multan, saying the route had not been approved yet with the result that the passengers suffered.

The SAI apologised to the passengers, saying these were routine timetable changes which the CAA was objecting to for no reason and at a great cost and inconvenience to the travelling public.

The CAA in a statement said it would take measures to ensure that no inconvenience or hardship was caused to passengers owing to the SAl`s `irresponsible` behaviour of selling tickets of unsanctioned routes.

It said that the SAl`s decision to launch new and unauthorised international routes without prior approval was not legal.

It said that starting up new routes cannot be described as a routine timetable change. Sale of tickets for unauthorised routes was not only a violation but also misled passengers into buying tickets, which became a scam for innocent potential passengers unaware of ground realities.

The CAA rejected the SAI allegations that the recent woes, distress and agony of the passengers were being caused by the regulator and said these allegations were a cover-up of the airline`s incompetence and inability to work according to the standard operating procedures.

It said that the SAI had repeatedly tried to twist the facts to shift the blame of its mismanagement, inefficiency and lawlessness on the CAA which wanted the SAI to follow rules and regulations.

Source: DAWN

[Abbas Ali]

Shaheen Air says following SOPs

May 16, 2017

KARACHI - Shaheen Air International (SAI) has refuted claims made by Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that the airline does not follow standard operating procedures.

In a statement, the airline management said that flight permissions are issued under the Civil Aviation Rules (CARs) and Air Navigation Order (ANO) on Flight Permissions. The tickets sold for flights to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Karachi from Faisalabad International Airport were in line with industry’s rules and regulations including specifically CARs and the ANO. Both routes were authorised as per CARs 352 (2) and (3), which automatically deem new flight routes approved if CAA does not respond to the request within 30 days. SAI had sent a request letter for these new routes to CAA on February 21, however no objections or reply was issued by the authority. Following this, the airline had then sent for flight approvals to Air Fleet Transport Management System on March 20.

No rule has been cited till date by the CAA that places a restriction on selling tickets in such a scenario.

Commenting on CAA’S demand to apply for a new Regular Public Transport (RPT) Licence, the airline has stated that the Sindh High Court, in a ruling on April 29, has legally suspended this demand, since SAI had been granted the said licence 26 years ago upon its establishment.

Source: The Nation

[adamalikhan]

What is the latest here for SAI. Is today not the 45th day?

Also have they now got approval for routes out of Faislabad?

[Abbas Ali]

According to a newspaper report, the Sindh High Court (SHC) on August 22 said that Shaheen Air Hajj flights operation should not be disturbed due to airline's dispute with CAA on the issue of RPT licence.

The court extended its order that was passed earlier suspending requirement for applying for fresh RPT on the basis of Rule 182 of civil aviation rules to prevent interruption in Shaheen Air flight operations by CAA.

The court adjourned the case till September 14.

Apparently it means Shaheen Air will not be able to launch non-Hajj flights from Multan and Faisalabad at least till September 14.

Abbas