KARACHI, Dec 1: Pakistan International Airline has said that it was never banned, barred or blacklisted, nor was it ever put on notice by the European Union.

In a clarification to “claims” of PPP’s central information secretary Sherry Rehman, a PIA press release said the CAA aircraft incident at Sharjah and the Walton incident had nothing to do with PIA.

The press release said PIA’s financial weakness was not the creation of the incumbent management. “It is only now that good governance as opposed to scandalous mismanagement is setting things right for PIA,” it added.

It claimed that had fuel prices remained at the 2004 level, PIA would have showed a revenue rise of Rs4.3 billion. The press release clarified that PIA’s both extended-range and longer-range aircraft Boeing 777 were flying safely round the clock throughout the PIA network.