Total Flight Ban on Russian Airlines in EU Airspace + Growing Diversions

EU airspace has been closed to all Russian-owned, Russian-registered or Russian-controlled aircraft. Multiple airlines are avoiding the Russian airspace on their routes, whereas the list of countries banning Russian Airlines is increasing one by one.

There is an article about a developing story. As more information comes in, it will be updated.

Countries closing airspace to Russian flights

Other countries are going to impose flight bans after the European Union decided to ban Russian airlines. EU foreign ministers discussed the sanction today. Canada closed their airspace to Russian Airlines. There are countries that have imposed bans on Russian flights.

United Kingdom

One of the first countries to ban Russian airlines was the United Kingdom. The UK Civil Aviation Authority said that it had stopped Aeroflot's foreign carrier permit. Russian private planes can't fly in British airspace or land at its airports.

“Following the announcement by the Prime Minister in Parliament today, the UK Civil Aviation Authority has suspended the foreign carrier permit held by Aeroflot Russia Airlines (Aeroflot) until further notice. This means that Aeroflot will not be permitted to operate flights to or from the United Kingdom until further notice."

the UK Civil Aviation Authority

European Countries

• Poland became the first EU country to ban Russian flights from its airspace. The Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced this decision on Friday.
• The Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Malta along with the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have already decided to close their airspace to Russian airlines and aircraft.
• Ireland has become one of the latest countries to shut off its airspace to Russian airlines.

"Ireland will move to shut off Irish Airspace to all Russian Aircraft. We encourage other EU partners to do the same. We also support new wide-ranging sanctions to be agreed today at EU FAC & new assistance package for Ukraine."

Simon Coveney, Iris Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence

• Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium the Netherlands and Austria will also ban all Russian-registered aircraft from its airspace.

Belgium has decided to close its airspace to all Russian airlines.

Our European skies are open skies. They're open for those who connect people, not for those who seek to brutally aggress.

— Alexander De Croo 🇧🇪🇪🇺 (@alexanderdecroo) February 27, 2022

• The Nordic countries of Finland, and Sweden have also unfolded their plans to ban Russian flights from their airspace.
• Portugal and Croatia became the latest countries to close its airspace to Russian airlines.
• Plenty of flights to Russia and Asian destinations have turned around, including KLM flights from Amsterdam to Moscow & St Petersburg and Lufthansa flights bound for Seoul and Tokyo.

Canada is the first North American country to impose a ban on Russian airlines.

Delta Cancelled Codeshare with Aeroflot

Delta Air Lines has withdrawn its codeshare services.

"We have removed our code from Aeroflot-operated services beyond Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport and removed Aeroflot’s code from Delta-operated services from Los Angeles and New York-JFK. Accommodations will be made for customers affected by these changes."

Delta Airlines spokesperson

Re-routing Long-Haul Flights over Russia Airspace

Multiple airlines have been forced to cancel hundreds of flights because of the airspace being closed.

"If Russia in parallel closes its airspace from Finnish aircraft, it would have a significant impact on Finnair as our Asian traffic would in practice come to a standstill. Going around Russian airspace prolongs flight times so much that it would not be financially possible to operate our Asian flights."

Finnair spokeswoman told Reuters in an emailed statement

Russia has imposed a similar ban on some countries.

Commercial airlines are avoiding airspace around the countries.

The flight time to India and Pakistan would be between 15 minutes and an hour, avoiding Russian airspace, according to Virgin Atlantic. Qantas will avoid Russian airspace on itskangaroo routes to London, with the flight time increasing by over an hour.

"Given the current circumstances and complexities, we're opting to use one of our alternative flight paths that doesn't overfly Russia, while we continue to monitor this evolving situation."

said Qantas spokesperson

Ukraine Airspace Closed and Multiple Airports Attacked by Russian Forces

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The airspace of Ukraine was closed due to a high risk to safety and the airspace of Russia and Belarus was warned of military actions. Multiple airports and bases were attacked by Russian. This article is not finished. The airspace is closed.

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In accidents.

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