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...according toMoscow may force European airlines to fly around Russia
MOSCOW Tue Aug 5, 2014 3:59pm BST
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev threatened on Tuesday to retaliate for the grounding of a subsidiary of national airline Aeroflot because of EU sanctions, with one newspaper reporting that European flights to Asia over Siberia could be banned.
Low-cost carrier Dobrolyot, operated by Aeroflot, suspended all flights last week after its airline leasing agreement was cancelled under European Union sanctions because it flies to Crimea, a region Russia annexed from Ukraine in March.
"We should discuss possible retaliation," Medvedev said at a meeting with the Russian transport minister and a deputy chief executive of Aeroflot.
The business daily Vedomosti reported that Russia may restrict or ban European airlines from flying over Siberia on Asian routes,
a move that would impose costs on European carriers by making flights take longer and require more fuel.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/0 ... CS20140805
this may cost Aeroflot $300 million as well, and this news has so far not done the worth of Aeroflot stock shares any good...