ISLAMABAD – 24 pilots and 67 crew-members of Pakistan InternationalAirlines (PIA) hold fake degrees, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)informed the Supreme Court on Thursday.
A CAA representative informed the top court that seven out of the 24 PIApilots have obtained stay orders from the court while the verificationprocess of 1,972 employees and their degrees has been completed.
Other than these seven pilots of the national flag-carrier, the remaining17 quit their jobs, the CAA official added.
The report submitted by Sajid Ilyas Bhatti on behalf of the CAA in the SCfurther states that none of the pilots in the private airlines is holdingfake degree.
“That out of 451 PIA pilots at present, the degree/certificates of 319 havebeen verified and found to be genuine by PIA. The degree verification of124 pilots is under process. There are seven pilots with bogus degrees whoare working because of stay orders passed by courts in their favour (sic)…”
“The private airlines, Shaheen Air, Air Blue and Serene Air, requested timeto verify degrees of their pilots and cabin crew as they stated they hadnever done this exercise before. The CAA’s committee directed them throughletters that this exercise needs to be completed in one month positively,”the report read.
During the course of proceeding, the Supreme Court summoned the chiefexecutive officers of all the national airlines including Prime MinisterShahid Khaqan Abbasi, who holds shares in Air Blue, at the apex court’sKarachi Registry next week.