Sindh High Court at Karachi has suspended the operation of letter dated 13 July 2018 issued by Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority to Second National Carrier of Pakistan, whereby the Civil Aviation Authority threatened Shaheen Air International to withdraw its services for international flights except flights to Saudi Arabia.
Director Marketing SAI, Zohaib Hassan stated that, SAI has challenged the CAA’s letter of 13 July 2018 which was issued in patent breach of CAA’s own laws particularly Rule 373 of the Civil Aviation Rules 1994.
CAA being a regulator of all the airlines has been treating Shaheen Air discriminatory, he said.
SHAHEEN AIR contributes billions of rupees every month to the treasury of Pakistan. CAA never dared to take any action against local carriers who were huge defaulter themselves but took panel action against SAI on less than 2 percent of the outstanding amount of other big carriers of the country.
SAI has submitted their payment plan on the basis which the court suspended the CAA letter dated July 13, 2018.
SAI has already acted religiously upon its payment plan and the honorable court also reaffirmed these facts after SAI produced its substantiation.
Zohaib Hassan also said that SAI operations are normal.
