{"id":32246,"date":"2025-04-19T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/32246\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T06:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:30:15","slug":"russias-effort-to-get-us-to-drop-aviation-sanctions-hits-eu-resistance-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/32246\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s effort to get US to drop aviation sanctions hits EU resistance \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the political decisions on sanctions, the EU official also pointed to \u201cmajor safety and security issues\u201d related to the possible reopening of EU airspace to Russian jets, as \u201cit is not known if Russian air operators and air traffic services have been properly maintained over the past three years, putting the airworthiness of the Russian fleet seriously in question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Moscow&#8217;s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russian airlines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-is-closing-its-sky-for-russian-flights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been banned<\/a> from landing in and flying over the territory of the EU and the U.S., as well as from accessing spare parts for aircraft from Western manufacturers such as Boeing or Airbus. The Kremlin retaliated by blocking Western airlines from its airspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, there\u2019s a high probability that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/fake-parts-for-russias-stolen-airliners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bogus parts<\/a> are being installed in aircraft operating within the Russian domestic market,\u201d said Sander Starreveld, director of the SIG Aviation consultancy, warning of risks to aviation safety. \u201cAllowing these aircraft to operate commercially in Europe is not only unsafe but also risks introducing counterfeit parts into the Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unsafe skies<\/p>\n<p>In practical terms, reopening Europe&#8217;s skies to Russian airlines such as flag carrier Aeroflot would also place a massive burden on the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).<\/p>\n<p>The agency would be required to ensure that Russian airplanes have a level of safety that is equivalent with aircraft already operating in the EU, Starreveld said. \u201cThis process takes time, especially considering the workload involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to safety and certification issues, many Russian planes may never be able to land in Europe again because they are actually not Russian but were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/147563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stolen from plane lessors<\/a>\u00a0after the invasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyond the political decisions on sanctions, the EU official also pointed to \u201cmajor safety and security issues\u201d related&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[18991,18992,1306,7503,1395,1442,32,2000,299,5187,660,809,332,5549,2663,811,657,49,333,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-32246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-airspace","10":"tag-aviation","11":"tag-azerbaijan","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-competition","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-kremlin","19":"tag-negotiations","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-safety","22":"tag-sanctions","23":"tag-security","24":"tag-ukraine","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-vladimir-putin","27":"tag-war","28":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114363225118279064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}