{"id":1348676,"date":"2022-02-28T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1348676"},"modified":"2022-02-28T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:38:22","slug":"europe-canada-closes-airspace-to-russian-civil-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/europe-canada-closes-airspace-to-russian-civil-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe, Canada Closes Airspace to Russian Civil Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feurope-canada-closes-airspace-to-russian-civil-aviation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1348676&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1190480312-e1646054531711-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">AP \u2014 Europe and Canada said Sunday they would close their airspace to Russian airlines after Russia\u00b4s invasion of Ukraine, raising the pressure on the United States to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the European Union would shut down its airspace for planes owned, registered or controlled by Russians, \u201cincluding the private jets of oligarchs.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Canada\u00b4s transport minister, Omar Alghabra, said his nation was closing its airspace to all Russian planes to hold the country accountable for an unprovoked attack on its neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union action came after many of its member countries had said they were barring Russian planes or planned to do so by Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo tweeted that European skies are \u201copen for those who connect people, not for those who seek to brutally aggress.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere is no room in Dutch airspace for a regime that applies unnecessary and brutal violence,\u201d Mark Harbers, the Netherlands\u00b4 minister of infrastructure and waterworks, said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">World\u2019s Largest Working Aircraft Destroyed in Fighting, Confirms Ukraine Govt, Vows to Rebuild<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WIkiC02Exr\">https:\/\/t.co\/WIkiC02Exr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1498261360915984390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A handful of European nations including Spain, Greece and Turkey had resisted closing their airspace before von der Leyen\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Mann, an aviation consultant in New York, said the moves by the European Union and Canada would put added pressure on the U.S. to also bar Russian flights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is difficult to understand why we are last to move, both operationally and financially,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Transport Canada later said that an Aeroflot flight violated the prohibition and that it would \u201cnot hesitate to take appropriate enforcement action and other measures to prevent future violations.\u201d The department said Canadian officials \u201cmistakenly permitted a banned aircraft into Canadian airspace. This shouldn\u00b4t have happened. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>As more airlines canceled flights in and out of Russia, and more countries blocked Russian airlines, the U.S. embassy in Moscow said Americans there \u201cshould consider departing Russia immediately via commercial options still available.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Russia has responded to western aviation sanctions by banning flights from several European countries. Russian airline S7 suspended flights to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday afternoon U.S. time, a Moscow-New York flight by Russian national carrier Aeroflot turned back after passing over Norway, according to flight-tracking services. The plane had been routed to fly over Canada. Other Aeroflot flights took circuitous routes after European countries began closing their airspace.<\/p>\n<p>Growing tension between Russia and western nations over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine have so far had a modest impact on airlines, which are trying to recover from huge losses since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. They face jet-fuel prices that have climbed more than 50% since last summer, and are likely to rise further because of sanctions against Russian oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Airlines in the U.S. and Europe are expecting to pack planes with transatlantic vacationers this summer. Helane Becker, an airline analyst for Cowen, said Friday that she continued to expect strong travel demand from the U.S. to western Europe, but travel to eastern Europe \u201cwill be curtailed until there is some resolution or some assurance it won\u00b4t spread to other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George Dimitroff, an analyst for aviation-research firm Cirium, said most of the largest European airline had one or two daily flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg and won\u00b4t be affected much, although Hungarian budget carrier Wizz Air, which had a hub in Kyiv, may feel the pinch slightly more.<\/p>\n<p>With European airspace closed off for now, Aeroflot, Rossiya and S7 \u201ceffectively become Russian domestic carriers,\u201d he said. Of those, Aeroflot had the most international flights.<\/p>\n<p>The global tension is already costing some airlines more money to reroute flights.<\/p>\n<p>An American Airlines flight from Delhi to New York has been stopping in Bangor, Maine, to refuel because its new route, skirting to the south of Russia, is longer. It remains to be seen whether United Airlines will do the same on four routes between the U.S. and India. Those flights usually go over Russia, and two of its planes were sticking those paths on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Petchenik, a spokesman for tracking service Flightradar 24, said \u201cdozens\u201d of cargo flights from Anchorage, Alaska, that would ordinarily pass over eastern Russia were being rerouted. \u201cThey will take a fuel penalty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mann, the aviation consultant, estimated that passenger flights forced to reroute could add between $4,000 and $12,000 per hour in costs, depending on the size of the plane and the price of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome routings will simply become uneconomic or impractical,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cargo carrier FedEx said Sunday it has temporarily suspended flights to Russia. The company said in a statement that it continued to provide service inside Russia and between Russia and other countries \u201cwhere conditions allow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, shortly after Russia\u2019s invasion, Delta Air Lines suspended a partnership with Aeroflot in which the airlines sold seats on each other\u2019s flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP \u2014 Europe and Canada said Sunday they would close their airspace to Russian airlines after Russia\u00b4s invasion of Ukraine, raising the pressure on the United States to do the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}