KARACHI: The Secretary Aviation/DGCAA Shahrukh Nusrat has asked the airlines to take necessary steps to rationalize their air fares, especially on the occasions of religious significance.
He was presiding over the second meeting of aviation Oversight Committee recently held here at Headquarters of Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).The Secretary Aviation/DGCAA informed the air operators that in compliance with the directives of Prime Minister Imran Khan, all scheduled air carriers shall be required to operate 5 per cent of their total capacity – available seat kilometres (ASKs) – on primary routes and another 5 per cent on socio-economic routes.
“In case of non-compliance on above directives, the RPT(s)/airline(s) not operating on the primary and socio-economic routes shall compensate the RPT(s)/airline(s) operating on these routes for the loss –if any- suffered from subject operations”, he added.
He also informed the participants of the meeting that CAA has submitted a proposal for further relaxation in aircraft age requirements -especially for air cargo and flying schools- as stated in Annex-G of National Aviation Policy (NAP)-2019.***
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