ISLAMABAD (AP) — State-run Pakistan International Airlines resumed direct flights to Europe on Friday following a decision by the European Union’s aviation safety agency to lift a four-year ban over safety standards, officials said.

Pakistan International Airlines has resumed flights to the European Union (EU), with the first flight following its ban in 2020 taking off from Islamabad to Paris on January 10. On January 10, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777-200ER,

Pakistan’s national airline has come under fire for a “tone deaf” advert that appears to show a plane flying into the Eiffel Tower.

EU regulators imposed a ban on Pakistan International Airlines, the country’s state-owned airline, following a series of accidents.

In a PIA ad many found more threatening than welcoming, the graphic showed a plane going straight toward the Eiffel Tower. ‘Paris, we’re coming today,’ the caption read.

Pakistan’s state-owned airline, plagued by a history of deadly crashes and a pilot licence scandal, resumed flights to Europe yesterday after a four-year ban was lifted by

Pakistan International Airlines resumed its flights to Europe on Friday six weeks after the European Aviation Safety Agency lifted its four-year safety standards ban, the state-owned Radio Pakistan reported.