How will Ukraine Situation affect travel

[jase05]

will be interesting to see the outcome

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498133731546181633

 

[VPS]

My tour guide in Moscow that I still keep in touch with has had a rough couple of years because of COVID - I doubt he's going to get much work this summer either

 

[justinbrett]

Why the hell is the US still allowing Aeroflot to operate? It’s one thing to allow overflight, it’s quite another to let them land.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Why the hell is the US still allowing Aeroflot to operate? It’s one thing to allow overflight, it’s quite another to let them land.

Juicy media material in Russia I suppose. Why give them further excuses to demonise the US?

 

[NM]

Why the hell is the US still allowing Aeroflot to operate? It’s one thing to allow overflight, it’s quite another to let them land.

Let them land, by all means. Just don't let them take off

 

[antycbr]

Let them land, by all means. Just don't let them take off

Probably to allow Americans to exit Russia before they announce a ban.

 

[Jenya]

will be interesting to see the outcome

Unfortunately nothing will ever happen(
West is so weak. Should have intercept it with fighter jets, land it in Canada exactly as Belarusian dictator Lukashenko did to imprison one of opposition leaders.
Seize the Airbus aircraft as EU sanctions prohibit any airspace equipment to be available for Russian airlines and also must rerun all leased Airbus airshafts in 30 days

 

[Jenya]

uicy media material in Russia I suppose. Why give them further excuses to demonise the US?

nothing can demonise US any more then is already portraited for Russians by kremlins media(
It IS juicy material because they will laugh over US and Canada again pointing out they toothless and cant do anything to retaliate

 

[Must...Fly!]

Unfortunately nothing will ever happen(
West is so weak. Should have intercept it with fighter jets, land it in Canada exactly as Belarusian dictator Lukashenko did to imprison one of opposition leaders.
Seize the Airbus aircraft as EU sanctions prohibit any airspace equipment to be available for Russian airlines and also must rerun all leased Airbus airshafts in 30 days

Eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is not the way to fight this battle. I understand you clearly have a real connection to the hostilities but there is the antagonistic way and then there is the way it's happening.

Moscow stock exchange opening time keeps getting moved back due to panic. The finance ministry has forbidden foreign asset holders to sell on the exchange. The ruble has dived by 40% this morning. Certain oligarchs are publically denouncing the action. Russia is fast becoming a pariah state and if the Ukrainian general staff are to be believed, 4,500 Russian troops are dead.

This isn't going in any way to script and that is really important.

Travel sanctions are starting to ramp up on any Russian individuals chartering western owned aircraft as well.

 

[jrfsp]

News | Finnair

company.finnair.com

The potential closure of Russian airspace would have significant financial impacts on Finnair; the company withdraws its guidance and is preparing for a prolonged situation

 

[jrfsp]

Russian flights bans hit airlines from 36 countries - aviation authority

Russia has closed its airspace to airlines from 36 countries, including all 27 members of the European Union, in response Ukraine-related sanctions targeting its aviation sector.

www.reuters.com

Just breaking but hardly a surprise, russia cuts of airlines from some 36 countries

 

[vetrade]

Russian flights bans hit airlines from 36 countries - aviation authority

Russia has closed its airspace to airlines from 36 countries, including all 27 members of the European Union, in response Ukraine-related sanctions targeting its aviation sector.

www.reuters.com

Just breaking but hardly a surprise, russia cuts of airlines from some 36 countries

Interesting that Canada is included but not the USA

 

[aaa99]

It is basically everyone who closed the airspace to Russian planes. US still hasn't. I am sure if they do, Russia will do the return

 

[vetrade]

It is basically everyone who closed the airspace to Russian planes. US still hasn't. I am sure if they do, Russia will do the return

Yeah, Sleepy Joe is MIA on this one.

 

[drron]

Switzerland has abandoned it's neutral status for the first time and has adopted the EU sanctions.

 

[jb747]

It is basically everyone who closed the airspace to Russian planes. US still hasn't. I am sure if they do, Russia will do the return

Yeah, Sleepy Joe is MIA on this one.

There would be innumerable US citizens stuck in the Russia, so at least this is giving them some way out. At this stage, it makes very little difference, to what is going to be another decade or so of icy relations.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

This might be the list of 36 countries
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.

 

[dajop]

Isn’t there a whole other thread for discussions on the policy, political and actual response to the situation? As opposed to the effect on travel that this thread is for?

 

[odysseus]

This might be the list of 36 countries
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.

They didn't list Australia. Perhaps they want to challenge Qantas on Project Sunshine (though Moscow is a bit closer than NY), probably to the Gold Coast here. ;-)

 

[antycbr]

They didn't list Australia. Perhaps they want to challenge Qantas on Project Sunshine (though Moscow is a bit closer than NY), probably to the Gold Coast here. ;-)

We've been forgotten! Perhaps they think the border is still closed.