CAA refuses PIA Boeing planes for haj flights Quetta to Jeddah

Civil Aviation Authority has refused to rovide permission to PIA to operate Boing 777 planes for Haj operation from Quetta to Jeddah and asked it to get private airbuses on lease for haj operation from Quetta. Sources on Wednesday said that Balochistan government had asked Pakistan International Airline (PIA) authorities to provide Boeing 777 planes for carrying hujaj from Quetta to the Jeddah.However CAA officials expressing concerns over the ongoing law and order situation across Balochistan province and in the backdrop of recent terror attack on PNS Mehran Airbase has refused to give permission to run haj operation through PIA owned Boeing 777 aircraft and have asked it to carry out the task through private airbuses.

On the other hand provincial leadership and citizens have strongly criticised the CAA refusal to allow 777 Boeing planes for haj operation. They said that law and order situation in Karachi, Peshawar and some other cities was more critical than Quetta.When Karachi and Peshawar were legible to continue haj operation though PIA 777 then why Quetta was deprived of the facility, they questioned.