Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) on Friday imposed Rs.100,000 penalty on the Turkish airlines for violating the anti-COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) introduced for all inbound international flights.
“lt has been noted with serious concern that the Turkish Airlines again transported passengers Abdul Sattar, Passport Number ER9996652 and Tariq Ali, Passport Number RH1796893, from Category-B country i.e. Dakar (Senegal) to lstanbul for onward journey to Lahore via Turkish Airlines flight TK0584 on January 13, 2021 without a proof of negative RT-PCR test,” a PCAA news release said.
Earlier on October 13 & 23, 2020, the authority had also warned and penalized the airliner to refrain from transporting passengers from Category-B destination to Pakistan without negative RT-PCR test.
The PCAA reiterated “Any recurrent violation of COVID-19 [coronavirus] related SOPs shall be dealt with in a more stringent manner including but not limited to revocation of operating authorization granted to Turkish Airlines for flight operations to/from Pakistan.”
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