Russia’s biggest cargo airline to suspend all Boeing flights
(Reuters) – Russia’s largest cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Group has suspended all flights utilizing Boeing plane on account of Western sanctions, it stated on Friday.
Sanctions have lower off the availability of most plane and elements to Russia. America and Europe have closed their airspace to Russian airways, and Moscow has responded by imposing the identical measure on them.
Volga-Dnepr stated in a press release it had stopped operations of two of its subsidaries – AirBridgeCargo and Atran – that use 18 Boeing 747 and 6 Boeing 737 airplanes on account of sanctions and a choice by Bermuda’s Civil Aviation Authority (BCAA) to terminate their security certificates.
“The administration of Volga Dnepr has made a aware choice to discover a doable resolution along with companions and state regulators,” it stated.
Volga-Dnepr, which describes itself because the world chief within the oversize and heavy cargo market, continues to fly Russian-made plane together with An-124 and Il-76 cargo jets.
Russia has handed a legislation permitting the nation’s airways to put plane leased from international corporations on Russia’s plane register – a manoeuvre prone to stoke Western fears of a mass default involving a whole bunch of jetliners.
(Modifying by Kirsten Donovan)
