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All Russian airlines should manage mass cancellations and refunds, echoing the early days of the pandemic. For example, Aeroflot and S7, Russia’s two largest airlines, said they were halting flights to the dozens of countries they serve.
Sean O’Neill
Russia’s state aviation authority on Saturday recommended Russian airlines with foreign-leased aicraft to suspend flights of passengers and freight abroad from Russia from March 6 and from foreign countries to Russia beginning on March 8.
The European Union, Britain and United States and some other nations closed their airspace starting next week, part of a package of punitive procedures after Russia got into Ukraine. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation.”
Here’s a map visualization from Reuters of how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is redrawing air paths.
(Reporting by Reuters, Modifying by Louise Heavens)
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