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Pakistan’s struggling national airline issued an apology on Friday for an advertisement showing a plane flying near the Eiffel Tower, which was published to celebrate the first flight to Paris after the lifting of a safety ban.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The image posted by state-owned Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to social media showed a plane aimed at the French landmark with the caption “Paris, we’re coming today”.<\/p>\n

In thousands of comments online, users drew comparisons with the 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on New York’s Twin Towers, when two planes were hijacked and flown into the skyscrapers, killing nearly 3,000.<\/p>\n

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by US special forces in 2011, while a Pakistani militant currently held in Guantanamo Bay is considered the chief mastermind of the attack.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, this was blown out of proportion with connations and perceptions that were not intended,” PIA spokesman Abdullah Khan told AFP.<\/p>\n

“It might have triggered some negative emotion, for which we truly apologise.”<\/p>\n

He said there were around 60,00 to 70,000 negative reactions online, or less than 10 percent of engagement.<\/p>\n

“Is this (an) advertisement or threat?” said one post under the advert, which has not been taken down.<\/p>\n

“I’d have a word with your marketing department on this one chief,” said another.
\nFinance Minister Ishaq Dar said the prime minister has ordered an inquiry into the advert which “shows stupidity”.<\/p>\n

But Khan said the response to PIA’s return to Europe has been “extremely positive”, with flights so far operating at more than 95 per cent capacity.<\/p>\n

Debt-ridden PIA was banned in June 2020 from flying to the European Union, United Kingdom and the United States, a month after one of its Airbus A-320s plunged into a Karachi street, killing nearly 100 people.<\/p>\n

The disaster was attributed to human error by the pilots and air traffic control, and was followed by allegations that nearly a third of the licences for its pilots were fake or dubious.<\/p>\n

In 2016, a PIA plane burst into flames after one of its two turboprop engines failed during a flight from the remote north to Islamabad, killing more than 40 people.<\/p>\n

In November, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency announced it had lifted the ban, however it remains barred from flying in the UK and the United States.<\/p>\n

At the time, it said it had “re-established sufficient confidence” in the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority’s oversight capabilities.<\/p>\n

The airline flies to multiple cities inside Pakistan, including the mountainous north, as well as to the Gulf and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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