KABUL (Pajhwok): Foreign airlines could stop operations to Pakistan over sustained blockage of cash payments, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has warned.
In a statement on Wednesday, the trade association of global airlines said Pakistan owed foreign airlines some $290 million in "repatriable funds" as of January, the second-highest total after Nigeria.
"If conditions persist that make the economics of operation to a country unsustainable, one would expect airlines to put their valued aircraft assets to better use elsewhere," said Philip Goh, IATA's Asia-Pacific regional vice president. He was quoted as saying that Virgin Atlantic Airways . . .
