Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) achieved safety ratings from European watchdog Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft (SAFA), reported 24NewsHD TV channel. 

PIA CEO Air Marshal Arshad Malik congratulated the PIA team for their sincere efforts working tirelessly to achieve the highest-ever safety ratings.

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Arshad Malik said that now after the restructuring of PIA’s safety department more stringent in-house safety checks are undertaken on all its international flights.

He tweeted, “Perfect SAFA Safety Ratings. Dedicated and sincere efforts of PIA team showed magnificent results & we stand at zero-ratio, a huge manifestation of adherence of world-class safety and airworthiness standards, Bravo PIA Team for making #Pakistan proud.”

The national airline said in a statement that with zero index, it means that PIA is now ranked among the best airlines in the world which have safest operating records.”

SAFA or Safety Audit for Foreign-Origin Aircraft conducts periodic and surprise checks for all the non-European airlines at different airports across the world.

Reporter Usman Javed