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FLIGHT APPROVAL ROW HALTS GERMAN-RUSSIAN AIR TRAFFIC BRIEFLY
- By The Financial District
- Jun 3, 2021
- 1 min read
Air traffic between Germany and Russia was briefly disrupted on Wednesday due to a dispute over flight approvals that left passengers stranded, Sascha Meyer reported for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).
The two sides started locking horns on Wednesday morning, when two Lufthansa flights departing from Frankfurt had to be scrapped because Russian authorities had failed to issue the necessary permits.
In response, the German Federal Aviation Office said it would not issue any further permits for incoming flights by Russian airlines until the Russian authorities had approved flights from Germany. Consequently, flights by Russian airlines Aeroflot and S7 could not take place on Wednesday.
The quarrel appeared to be resolved by Wednesday evening, when German carrier Lufthansa said it had received permission to land in Moscow and St Petersburg for the entire month of June.
The German Federal Aviation Office and Transport Ministry in Berlin have yet to comment after Lufthansa's announcement.
According to ministry sources, the row has its origins in March 2020. At that time, Russia unilaterally suspended bilateral flight agreements due to the coronavirus pandemic.
