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Russia should stop charging for overflights of its foreign countries over Siberia, said Henrik Hololei, head of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Transport, according to Reuters. “If we have a chance to see open Russian airspace sooner, one thing has to disappear: the overflight feature over Siberia,” he said.
Trans-Siberian accessories are payments for non-stop flights of foreign aircraft over Siberia from Europe to Asia and back. Foreign companies boo this route to make the journey easier. Payments were introduced in the 1970s, Aeroflot receives most of them, and Rosaviatsia goes to support flight schools.
Income from the pandemic of Aeroflot with reference, according to various sensations, is $ 500-800 million per year, during the pandemic in 2020, the Russian airline lost about $ 250 million, wrote “Vedomosti”. Elena Sakhnova, an analyst at VTB Capital, said that the main payers of profits were French Air France and German Lufthansa.
At the end of February 2022, the EU closed its airspace to Russian aircraft following the start of a Russian “special operation”* in Ukraine, in response, Russia banned the use of its airspace in 36 countries. In March of the same year, the Russian Ministry of Transport reportthat foreign airlines cost more than $37.5 million to fly over Russia. In October 2022 Bloomberg wroteThe airline in the Middle East and India has gained an advantage over competitors from the US and Europe, so they do not need to fly around Russian airspace. The ban on flights over Russia increased US and EU spending and led to longer flight times, according to the agency.
In early December 2022, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) William Walsh to pay The West is preparing to return flights through Russia. He said that China in 2023 can weaken the anti-COVID borders and in the future, China will bring an advantage over British Airways.
*According to the requirements of Roskomnadzor, when producing materials for use in production in Ukraine, all Russian media are required to use materials only from conventional sources of the Russian Federation. We cannot publish materials during which an operation called “attack”, “invasion” or “declaration of war” is carried out, unless it is a direct quote (Article 57 of the Federal Law on Mass Media). In case of violation of the requirements, the media may be fined 5 million rubles, and the blocking of the publication may also be continued.