ALERT Japan Airlines forced to cancel all flights to Europe on 3RD of March 2022

 

Japan Airlines said they would cancel all flights to and from Europe on Thursday.

The airlines, which normally use Russian airspace for their Europe flights, join a growing number of carriers that have cancelled or rerouted flights between Europe and north Asia in the wake of the crisis.

The airline is citing safety concerns following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.“We are continuously monitoring the situation, but given the present situation in Ukraine and the different risks, we have decided to cancel flights,” a JAL spokesperson told Reuters.

BREAKING Russian airline Aeroflot suspends all international flights due to ‘circumstances that impede flight operations’

 

Aeroflot is suspending all international flights from March 8.

On Saturday, Aeroflot informed about the suspension of all international flights from March 8 (00:00 Moscow time) due to ‘additional circumstances that impede flight operations’.

The cancellation also applies to international destinations off Rossiya and Aurora airlines (flights in the range SU5400-5799 and SU5950-6999).

To mitigate the risks of impossibility to use return flights to Russia for its passengers, Aeroflot, starting from March 6 (00:00 Moscow time), stops admitting passengers to international flights who have round-trip air tickets with a return leg to the Russian Federation in the period after March 8, 2022 of the year.

Passengers on international flights with one-way tickets departing from the Russian Federation will be accepted for transportation until the flight is terminated.

Passengers of canceled international flights can apply for a full refund of the ticket price.

Passengers of international flights who are abroad and have two-way tickets with a used flight segment from the Russian Federation can apply to the carrier for reissuing the return segment to Russia until the flight is terminated.

For passengers who will remain abroad by the time the flights are terminated, the airline will make every effort to organize their return to Russia.

Aeroflot will continue to operate domestic flights and to Minsk, Belarus.

What fighter jets the European Union will give to Ukraine?

 

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has asked the European Union for jet fighter jets some EU countries plan to supply them, EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell said Sunday.

Any planes would be supplied directly by EU member states and not funded through an arrangement announced earlier for the EU to finance weapons deliveries to Ukraine.

Mr. Borrell said that Mr. Kuleba had requested planes that Ukrainian Air Force pilots can fly. Ukraine’s jet fighters are Soviet-built MiG and Sukhoi models.

Since training a fighter pilot to fly a type of aircraft is a time-consuming and expensive process, it seems reasonable to assume that the only rapid transfer possible might involve a fighter already serving in the Ukraine Air Force.

Some current EU members that were once part of the USSR-led Warsaw Pact still fly such planes or have old ones parked.

These countries plan to hand over their warplanes to #Ukraine.

• Bulgaria (MiG-29) 16 units
• Bulgaria (Su-25) 14 units
• Poland (MiG-29) 28 units
• Slovakia (MiG-29) 12 units

The aircraft could be deployed at the Polish airport, where Ukrainian pilots will carry out combat missions.

ALERT Russia bans airlines from 36 countries from using its airspace

 

Russia has banned airlines from 36 countries from using its airspace in a tit-for-tat response to Western sanctions.

On Sunday, Europe shut its skies to Russian owned or controlled planes. The announcement means all planes, including the private jets of oligarchs, will now be unable to land in, take off from or fly over any EU nation.

It is one of a number of sanctions imposed by Western nations on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

On Monday, the Russian aviation regulator, Rosaviatsia, said: “A restriction has been imposed on flights for airlines of 36 countries in accordance with international law as a retaliatory measure for the ban imposed by the European states on the flights of commercial airliners operated by Russian airlines and/or registered in Russia.”

The measures mean airlines will have to make long detours on some routes, potentially raising the cost of fuel and tickets.

The countries banned from Russia’s airspace are: Albania, Anguilla, Austria, Belgium, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark (including Greenland, the Faroe Islands), Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK.

Swiss International Airlines, which is owned by Germany’s Lufthansa, said that it had cancelled flights from Zurich to Moscow despite Switzerland not appearing on Russia’s list of banned countries.

A spokesperson for the Swiss airline also said it was not flying through Russian airspace.