EU intends to lift the ban on flights of Afghan Airlines by the end of 2015

Almaty. May 18. Silkroadnews - The Afghan Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) announced that the European Union (EU) will lift a ban on flights of Afghan Airlines by the end of this year, informed the Afghan News Agency (AfTAG).
Ban on Afghan Airlines was adopted in 2010 after Afghanistan failed in time to update the aircraft manual of 1972 for their compliance with EU requirements, and set up the Civil Aviation Authority.
According to ministry officials, Afghanistan has implemented most of the preconditions for the EU to remove the Afghan airlines from its "black list". These conditions include an independent Civil Aviation Administration, the approval of the law on the Afghan aviation, standardization of the airlines meet international standards and hired international operators to manage their fleet.
Everyone - the state-owned and private airlines of Afghanistan - were forbidden to enter the airspace of the European Union since 2010 because of their inconsistency with international safety criteria.
One of the largest private airlines Safi in Afghanistan took the major brunt as a the result of the ban,  because it committed flights to the German city of Frankfurt five times a week.