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Sep 30, 2015 (newstodate): Commercial air links between Russia and Ukraine have been broken as part of the ongoing conflict between the two countries.
Ukraine was first to announce that flights by Russian airlines on routes to Ukraine would be banned from the start of the coming winter schedule from October 25, 2016, and this has an immediate impact on Aeroflot, Rossiya, Don-Avia, Transaero, S7 and Ural Airlines that operate flights from various Russian airports to Kiev, Odessa, Lviv, and St Petersburg.
Not surprisingly, Russia has retaliated by banning flights by UIA to Moscow, St Petersburg and Kaliningrad, and by Motor Sich to Moscow.
When fully enforced, the reciprocal bans on air traffic by Russia and Ukraine will comprise some 250 rotations per week.
Also not surprisingly, carriers outside the eye of the storm are seeing these developments as opening new opportunities as well.
In Latvia, airBaltic has declared its readiness to invest capacity into routes between Russia and Ukraine transiting via its hub at Riga Airport, and in Poland LOT Polish Airlines is also seeing potentials for using Warsaw as a transit hub for flights connecting Moscow and Kiev.
Also the Belarus carrier Belavia is on-line with flights from Minsk to Moscow and to Kiev and sees potentials for offering flights between Moscow and Kiev via Minsk - provided both countries will accept the service.
Ukraine was first to announce that flights by Russian airlines on routes to Ukraine would be banned from the start of the coming winter schedule from October 25, 2016, and this has an immediate impact on Aeroflot, Rossiya, Don-Avia, Transaero, S7 and Ural Airlines that operate flights from various Russian airports to Kiev, Odessa, Lviv, and St Petersburg.
Not surprisingly, Russia has retaliated by banning flights by UIA to Moscow, St Petersburg and Kaliningrad, and by Motor Sich to Moscow.
When fully enforced, the reciprocal bans on air traffic by Russia and Ukraine will comprise some 250 rotations per week.
Also not surprisingly, carriers outside the eye of the storm are seeing these developments as opening new opportunities as well.
In Latvia, airBaltic has declared its readiness to invest capacity into routes between Russia and Ukraine transiting via its hub at Riga Airport, and in Poland LOT Polish Airlines is also seeing potentials for using Warsaw as a transit hub for flights connecting Moscow and Kiev.
Also the Belarus carrier Belavia is on-line with flights from Minsk to Moscow and to Kiev and sees potentials for offering flights between Moscow and Kiev via Minsk - provided both countries will accept the service.