ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national airline said on Thursday (Jan 16) that an advertisement showing a plane heading toward the Eiffel Tower was never intended to evoke the memories of the Sep 11 attacks.
A Pakistan International Airlines shows a plane superimposed over the French flag and tilted toward the Paris landmark, with the words “ Paris , we're coming today”. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan ’s national airline said on Thursday that an advertisement showing a plane heading toward the Eiffel Tower was never intended to evoke the memories of the Sep 11 attacks.
The ad was posted on X by Pakistan International Airlines, or PIA, on Jan 10, the day that the company resumed flights to European Union countries after a four-year ban by the bloc's aviation safety agency. PIA spokesman Abdullah Hafeez said Thursday that the ad, which hasn't been deleted and has more than 21.2 million views, was only ever meant to celebrate that the airline was resuming flights to Europe, and never intended to harm 9/11 survivors or victims' families.
Curbs on PIA had been imposed in 2020 after 97 people died when a PIA plane crashed in Karachi in southern Pakistan.
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