Afghan airlines must globally standardize to off EU blacklist

Mapping out the first 100 day plan, the minister of transport and aviation said that the Afghan airlines must globally standardize to remove from the black list of European Union (EU).

Muhammadullah Batash, minister of transport and aviation declared that the issue caused all efforts to end ban of EU airspace fail.

The European Union has banned all Afghan airlines from flying into European airspace since 2010 because of the country’s failure to set up a proper safety regime.

The updated EU blacklist includes 276 carriers — mostly cargo companies — certified in 19 nations, with many of them in Africa. Others are in Indonesia, the Caucasus, the Philippines, Cambodia and Surinam.

Afghan airlines are now looking at ways around the ban, such as leasing better aircraft or buying overseas operators to run their fleet while being overseen by a credible regulator.

“The inability in measuring companies caused the ban not remove after 5 years,” Batash said.

According to him, Inaccuracies in the contracts of the Ministry caused the Transport of Afghanistan’s remains dependent to the neighboring countries.

The establishment of good governance, the rule of Transport, design and development of transport sector policy, a strategic plan for five years, setting the city’s public transport, reviewing the situation of buses, creating a transparent system of revenue collection of transportation, building transport terminals and creation of an electronic management include in the 100 hundred day plan of the ministry of transport.

Reported by Lida Neiazi