Media: Kyiv forbade flights over Ukraine on economic motives

Airlines, fearing costs, has come to Ukraine not to close its airspace, and Kyiv allowed the aircraft to fly over the zone of military operations for economic reasons, " writes the Washington post.
in 1944, in the framework of the Convention on international civil aviation was established fee for crossing the airspace of other countries. The journal emphasizes that, for example, USA from October 1 will increase the fee for the use of its air space to 56 dollars for every 185 miles. Certain countries do not publish information about the cost of flights over their territory, as well as among them Ukraine, RIA " Novosti ". The writer has made a request in the international aviation organization, which agreed that Kiev receives 200 million dollars each year for providing its airspace international airlines." This is a complex question. This is of interest not only Ukraine but also the interest of all airlines that there flights, " said the source in the organization. According to him, the Airline had requested Ukraine not to close its airspace, because It would lead to increased costs. In case of change of the route Malaysia Airlines had to spend 10 million Dollars more on fuel, and flight time would increase by half an hour. Remember, on July 17, in the East of Ukraine was the crash of the Boeing 777 " Malaysian airlines ", which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. In the cabin of the ship was 298 people, among whom were 85 children and fifteen members of the crew. The survivors of a plane crash not. The Ministry of defense of Russia presented data of objective observations for disaster Malaysian Boeing 777, according to which the presumed site of the defeat of the Malaysian Boeing gets in a zone of bombardment Buk " military power of Ukraine, in addition, very close to the passenger plane was spotted Ukrainian su-25 attack aircraft. Deputy head of the Ministry of defence Anatoly Antonov said that U.S. intelligence had not submitted the confirmation of belonging Donetsk militia to disaster Malaysian Boeing: " confirm " the US does not give the answer to any of the above questions, but it causes a lot of new. On the last working day of the week, a source in 1 of the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine said that Boeing might be, was shot down as a result of emergency situation, which could be committed by servicemen of the departments of defense Ukrainian military power during training on improvement of removing the lock system of missile launches.


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