Excuse me gents, but I don’t quite understand. What exactly is banned these days? Visuals? No PAPI landings?
I have flown (and still fly) for several large jets operators around the world and have never seen any restriction w.r.t. to PAPI.
O.K., vast majority of runways I operate to have them these days, so no PAPI landing is rare. Still, haven’t seen any formal requirement for PAPI, or any restriction due to lack thereof...