The EU has banned flights of 21 Russian airlines: their planes are recognized as unsafe

The EU Aviation Safety Committee has added 21 Russian airlines to the list of carriers that are banned or restricted from flying within the EU because these carriers do not meet international safety standards, reports Meduza.

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Among the Russian airlines that made the list are Aeroflot, Rossiya, Pobeda, S7, Utair, Nordwind, Aurora, Izhavia.

Carriers from the Russian Federation were included in the list in connection with a law adopted in March that allowed Russian airlines to register the rights to foreign aircraft under lease and issue domestic airworthiness certificates to such aircraft.

European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valyan said that the blacklisting of Russian airlines is not a sanction against Russia, but is dictated by security considerations.

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“Rosaviation has allowed Russian airlines to operate hundreds of foreign aircraft without a valid airworthiness certificate. This not only clearly violates the Convention on International Civil Aviation, but also poses an immediate threat to aviation safety. We live in conditions of unprovoked Russian military aggression against Ukraine. But I want to make it clear that this decision is not another sanction against Russia; it was adopted solely on technical and safety grounds. We don’t mix security with politics,” Valyan said.

The Russian authorities allowed the issuance of domestic airworthiness certificates to leased aircraft after such aircraft began to be detained abroad. This was due to the sanctions that the EU imposed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These sanctions obligated lessors to terminate contracts with Russian airlines and obtain the return of leased aircraft.

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The Russian authorities did not voluntarily return these planes. Because of this, according to the Ministry of Transport at the end of March, 78 out of more than 1300 aircraft of Russian airlines were arrested abroad.
The head of the Ministry of Transport, Vitaly Savelyev, said that for Russia to give up leased aircraft "means leaving itself without aviation." At the same time, he warned that these aircraft will never again be able to fly to countries that implement sanctions, “due to the fact that we took someone else's property". Almost 200 aircraft are available for international flights that are Russian or were registered as Russian before the imposition of sanctions.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• Airbus and Boeing refused to work with Russia, which jeopardizes almost all civil aviation country.
• Now the planes of Russian airlines become dangerous to use – Because of the sanctions, they will not receive proper service.
• Flight to Nowhere: Airplane Aeroflot did not fly to New York due to sanctions against Russia.
• Meanwhile, the European Union and the United States closed their airspace to civilians Russian aircraft.
• Closing airspace to Russia over the European Union is forcing Russian airlines to come up with alternative routesto avoid restrictions, which increases flight time and increases operating costs.
• Russian airlines stop international flights. This ban is due to the fact that aircraft leased by Russian airlines from foreign (primarily European) lessors can be delayed abroad at the request of the owners.
• So pRussian national air carrier Aeroflot canceled flights to 88 destinationsincluding flights to New York.
• Russia recently resumed international flights to 52 'friendly' countries, you can see which countries remained friendly here.

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