British Airways on Monday resumed flight operations to
Pakistan, more than ten years after halting the service in the wake of a
suicide bombing attack that had killed more than 50 people at Islamabad’s
Marriott Hotel.
Footage of a Boeing 787 jet with some 240 passengers on
board landing at the capital’s new airport was aired by local TV channels.
Several government ministers and the British high
commissioner were on hand to welcome the flight.
“I am happy that British Airways has landed in Pakistan
after 11 years,’’ Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan said in a video
message.
“Today’s Pakistan is more safe, secure and peaceful,’’ Khan
said.
The British carrier had suspended operations in 2008 after
the deadly Marriott Hotel bombing in Islamabad in which over 50 people were
killed.
The security situation has since improved due to successive
military operations against the militants.
“Britain’s flag carrier is back,’’ Thomas Drew, the British
High Commissioner in Islamabad, said in a video message shared via Twitter.
“It is, of course, a tribute to the great improvement to the
security situation in Pakistan in recent years,’’ Drew added.
British Airways will be operating three flights a week to
Pakistan, said Farah Hussain, a spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority
(CAA).
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