Aeroflot, Russia’s flagship carrier, says it is suspending all international flights – except to neighboring Belarus – starting on March 8, as Moscow faces a sweeping range of Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine and as US Threaten to seize Russian planes.
The move on Saturday came after the country’s civil aviation body, Rosaviatsiya, recommended that all Russian airlines operating foreign-leased planes halt both passenger and cargo flights abroad, citing a high risk of rental aircraft being impounded as part of Western sanctions that ban leasing of planes to Russia.
Russia’s Public-Private Airline Aeroflot has announced the suspension of all foreign flights from March 8.The carrier announced the move on Saturday, according to Ukrinform.
“Aeroflot informs about the temporary suspension of all international flights from March 8 (00:00 Moscow time) due to additional circumstances preventing operation of flights. Cancellation also applies to international destinations scheduled by Rossiya and Avrora airlines (flights in the SU5400-5799 and SU5950-6999 range),” the statement said.
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From March 6, Aeroflot will not board passengers on international flights with roundtrip tickets if their return flight is scheduled after March 8. Passengers with one-way tickets and departures from Russia will be allowed to fly until all international flights are stopped.
According to an Ukrinform correspondent, today Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting with the company’s employees at the Aeroflot office. The meeting is broadcast live on Russian TV.
This decision was explained by “reducing the risk of inability to use return flights to Russia” for airline clients. Passengers of canceled flights will be able to get a full refund.
Earlier on Saturday, it became known that the Russian aviation regulator, Rosaviatsia, recommended that Russian airlines suspend all international flights from March 6 amid mass arrests of aircraft on foreign soil. The recommendation applies to carriers whose aircraft are registered in other jurisdictions under leasing agreements with foreign entities.
On Friday, S7 Airlines announced that from March 5 it will be forced to cancel all international flights.
As reported, on February 24, Russia declared war on Ukraine. Russian troops invaded Ukraine from the north, east, and south – from the occupied Crimea. They have been destroying cities, killing civilians, shelling critical infrastructure and households.
Rosaviatsiya’s recommendation does not apply to Russian airlines that use Russian planes or foreign planes that are not at risk of being impounded. It also does not apply to foreign airlines from countries that have not imposed sanctions on Russia and have not shut down their airspace for Russian planes.
More than half of the commercial aircraft in Russia are leased, according to Aviation Week, an industry publication.
An Aeroflot statement on the “temporary suspension of all international flights from March 8” cited new “circumstances that impede the operation of flights”. It noted all domestic routes would continue unchanged, as well as flights to Belarus, whose leader Alexander Lukashenko is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia’s biggest state-owned airline also said it would cancel return tickets for passengers who are scheduled to depart Russia after March 6 and travel back after March 8. Those with one-way tickets will be allowed to fly up until March 8.
Rosaviatsia also recommended Russians seeking to return home from foreign countries arrange flights transiting through countries that had not joined sanctions, such as Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Serbia.
Earlier this week, another Russian carrier, S7, announced the suspension of all its international flights due to sanctions imposed on Russia over the country’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
The budget airline Pobeda – a subsidiary of Aeroflot – also said it will be halting international flights from March 8.The airline sector was one of the first to be affected by the economic fallout from the war.
Russian carrier Aeroflot was banned from the airspace of the entire EU, the United Kingdom and Canada, forcing it to suspend flights to these destinations.
Putin, who on Saturday visited an Aeroflot training centre outside the capital, Moscow, says his aims in Ukraine are to defend Russian-speaking communities through the “demilitarisation and de-Nazification” of the country so that it becomes neutral.
Ukraine and Western countries have dismissed this as a baseless pretext for the invasion and have imposed harsh sanctions aimed at isolating Moscow.
“These sanctions that are being imposed are akin to a declaration of war but thank God it has not come to that,” Putin told Aeroflot staff.
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